Sexy Beast

Theatrical Release Date: 2001 06 15 (USA - Limited)

UPC: 024543026754

Studio: 20th Century Fox

MPAA Rating: R   Contains:[Violence, Not For Children, Profanity, Sexual Situations]

Summary: Gary (Ray Winstone) is a former gangster who has made a modest amount of money from his criminal career. Happy to put his life of crime behind him, he has retired with his wife Deedee (Amanda Redman) to the sunny bliss of rural Spain, where he lives an idyllic life with his family and a few close friends. But Gary's contentment is ruptured by an unwelcome visitor from his past -- Don (Ben Kingsley), a former associate who has been hired to assemble a team of criminals to rob a heavily guarded bank. Don wants Gary in on the job, and is less than pleased by Gary's unwillingness to volunteer his services. What ensues is a battle of wills between the two men, with Don intimidating, prodding, and manipulating his onetime friend to get what he wants, forever changing the lives of those around him in the process. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi

Category: Crime

Awards: Best British Film – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best European Actor – European Film Academy Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – null Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – Screen Actors Guild Best Supporting Actor (Runner-up) – Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Foreign Film – Independent Spirit Awards Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – Toronto Film Critics Association Best First Feature – Toronto Film Critics Association Best Supporting Actor – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Supporting Actor – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Supporting Actor – Toronto Film Critics Association Best Supporting Actor – Screen Actors Guild

Features: Commentary by Ben Kingsley and producer Jeremy Thomas
Featurette
Theatrical trailers
Anamorphic widescreen (aspect ratio 1.85:1)
Audio: English 5.1 Dolby Surround, English Dolby Surround
Subtitles: English, Spanish

Sexy Beast

Format: Digital Video Disc (DVD)

Release Date: 10/22/2002

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Theatre Wide-Screen

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1

Runtime: 89 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English

Subtitles: English,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Side #1 --
0. Scene Selection
1. An Englishman in the Sun (Main Titles) [4:39]
2. A Boulder in the Pool [2:13]
3. Definitely Retired [3:55]
4. Gal's Dream [3:17]
5. Logan [1:49]
6. A Job for Teddy Bass [3:18]
7. Logan's Secret Love [1:48]
8. Yes or No? [2:11]
9. A Tense Evening [4:47]
10. A Psycho in the House [5:52]
11. No Smoking [1:48]
12. A Gangster Scorned [2:29]
13. Back to London [3:13]
14. Where's Logan? [1:11]
15. Where There's a Will... [2:59]
16. An Underwater Robbery [2:41]
17. Teddy's Errand [3:36]
18. The Payoff [:42]
19. Home Again [3:29]
20. End Titles [3:33]

Jonathan Crow

The first half of Jonathan Glazer's psychological thriller Sexy Beast seems stolen straight out of Greek myth. At the film's outset, corpulent ex-gangland thug Gal and his wife, Dee Dee, are the picture of earthly contentment, living in their bone-white hacienda with a view of the sea and filling their days with basking by the pool and barbecues. Like a Fury descending on a hapless mortal, Don Logan descends on Gal and his Spanish Eden to cajole, badger, and bully him into helping on a big heist back in England. Gal and Dee Dee's dread and palatable tension over Don's imminent visit feels like an impending visit from the Grim Reaper. In the resulting psychological warfare, Gal -- whose bulky physique makes him look oddly feminine -- is utterly outmatched by Don (who looks like Anton LaVey in a leisure suit and who is a head shorter than his ursine adversary). Rigid, twitchy, and coiled, Don seems like he's one misspoken word away from an act of terrifying violence. Ben Kingsley is mesmerizing as Don Logan, who brings the act of swearing and verbal abuse to an exuberant art form. Unfortunately, once Don is dispatched halfway through the film, the movie seems to deflate. Once in Britain, Sexy Beast treads perilously close to the masturbatory camera trickery of a Guy Ritchie flick. Ian MacShane as Teddy Bass -- the architect of the heist and the uber-criminal of the movie -- conveys little of the menace and charisma of Don Logan. Of course, no one short of Darth Vader, Keyser Sose, or Satan himself could. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Louis Mellis  Screenwriter 
Jeremy Thomas  Producer 
Roque Banos  Composer (Music Score) 
Jonathan Glazer  Director 
David Scinto  Screenwriter 
Ray Winstone  Actor 
Ben Kingsley  Actor 
Ian McShane  Actor 
Amanda Redman  Actor 
Cavan Kendall  Actor 
Alvaro Monje  Actor 
Julianne White  Actor 
James Fox  Actor 

Country: UK