Beautiful Creatures (2013 film)

Theatrical release poster

Directed by - Richard LaGravenese
Produced by - Andrew A. Kosove, Broderick Johnson, Erwin Stoff, David Valdes
Screenplay by - Richard LaGravenese
Based on - Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl
Starring - Alden Ehrenreich, Alice Englert, Jeremy Irons, Viola Davis,
Emmy Rossum, Thomas Mann, Emma Thompson, Eileen Atkins, Margo
Martindale, Zoey Deutch, Tiffany Boone
Music by - Thenewno2
Cinematography - Philippe Rousselot
Edited by - David Moritz
Production company - Alcon Entertainment
Distributed by - Warner Bros. Pictures
Release dates - February 14, 2013
Running time - 124 minutes
Country - United States
Language - English
Budget - $60 million
Box office - $60,052,138
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Awards
9 nominations.

6.2/10
53,039 Rate 52 Metascore (imdb.com)

Alice Englert as Lena Duchannes ( The cursed young caster)

Emmy Rossum as Ridley Duchannes ( Dark Caster)

Emma Thompson as Lena Duchanne's Mother

Viola Davis as Amma, Alice Englert as Lena Duchannes & Alden Ehrenreich  as Ethan Wate

Jeremy Irons as Macon Ravenwood & Viola Davis as Amma

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Plot
In Gatlin, South Carolina, Ethan Wate awakens from a recurring
dream of a girl he does not know. In voice-over narration, he
describes his enjoyment of reading banned books, his despair
of his small-town existence, and his dreams of leaving for
college. Arriving for his first day of junior year, Ethan notices
newcomer Lena Duchannes, who resembles the girl he has
been dreaming about. The other students do not take kindly
to her and spread gossip regarding Lena's reclusive uncle,
Macon Ravenwood, and suggest that her family includes devil
worshippers. Overhearing these whispers, Lena tenses, and
the classroom windows shatter, amplifying the fears and
suspicions of the class and the townspeople at large that she
is a witch.

On a drive home, Ethan nearly runs over Lena, whose car has
broken down. He gives her a ride home, and the two bond
over their shared love of poetry and having both lost their
mothers. Ethan drops Lena off but later finds a locket and
returns to the mansion to give it to her as a present. Touching
the locket triggers a shared flashback to the American Civil
War, after which Ethan awakens at his home. Macon
disapproves of their love and fondness of each other, and
conspires with Ethan's family friend, Amma, to keep the two
separated. However, Ethan continues to pursue Lena until she
confesses that she and her family are "casters" capable of
performing magical spells that change the weather or create
illusions. On her sixteenth birthday, Lena's true nature will
steer her towards either the light or the dark; Lena fears the
latter, as it entails being consumed by evil and hurting those
she loves. Ethan insists she is responsible for her own choices
and reassures her that she is a good person.
Matters are complicated by the arrival of two immensely
powerful dark casters who aim to push Lena to the dark:
Ridley, Lena's provocative cousin/childhood friend, and
Sarafine, Lena's mother, who has possessed Mrs. Lincoln, the
mother of Ethan's friend Link. Sarafine foresees that Lena will
become an even more powerful caster and intends for Lena
to use her newfound power to purge the Earth of humans,
leaving casters to rule in their wake. Lena and Ethan use the
locket to re-experience the whole flashback, which reveals
their ancestors, caster Genevieve Duchannes and mortal
Confederate soldier Ethan Carter Wate were in love. Ethan
Carter was shot in battle, and Genevieve revived him using a
forbidden spell that caused her to go dark and curse all the
Duchannes family's women. They consult with Amma, who is
in a seer/keeper of a caster library beneath the town library.
The most ancient of these books, the Book of Moons, reveals
the secret to undoing the curse: someone Lena loves has to
die. Unwilling to take Ethan's life, Lena has a final moment
together with Ethan in which Lena makes it snow and then
erases all his memories of their time together.
Ridley seduces Link and gives him a bullet to use in an
upcoming Civil War reenactment of the Battle of Honey Hill
which will take place on Lena's birthday. During the
reenactment, Link and Ethan agree to "kill" each other so they
can ditch the reenactment. While at the ceremony for her
16th birthday, Lena feels the shock of the curse being broken
and runs off to Ethan, clutching his dying body as Ridley and
Sarafine encourage her to surrender to grief and accept the
dark. Lena lashes out in anger, sending lightning strikes
through the crowd of reenactors until Ethan transforms into
Macon, who had previously disguised himself as Ethan to
become the needed sacrifice. His dying words encourage
Lena to "claim yourself"; she then causes the moon to
disappear, so it cannot claim her for the dark. Lena allows
Ridley to flee and pulls Sarafine from Mrs. Lincoln's body,
using her power to seal Sarafine's spirit away.
Six months later, a still-amnesiac Ethan stops by the library to
visit Amma before leaving for an NYU college tour with Link.
He apologizes to Lena for not having gotten to know her
during their time in Gatlin. When he inquires if a "banned
book" by Charles Bukowski (which she had shared with him
when they first met) is any good and Lena asks him to define
good (the same reply she gave the first time he asked), Lena
then presents it to him as a "getting out of Gatlin present". As
Link drives away, Ethan reads a passage in the book that he
had earlier associated with Lena, while Lena is revealed in
the caster library to be a half light/dark caster. As they drive
past the town line, Ethan glimpses the town's burned
welcome sign and remembers everything. The car skids to a
halt, Ethan gets out of the car and yells Lena's name. She
hears him call, and is freed of her dark side before the screen
fades to black.

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