• Genre: Crime
• MPAA Rating: R
• AMG Rating:
• Regional Coding: 1
  USA and territories, Canada

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, All Movie Guide

Bonus 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

Actors

Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane, Amanda Redman, Cavan Kendall, Alvaro Monje, Julianne White, James Fox

Director

Jonathan Glazer

Producer

Jeremy Thomas

Violence, Not For Children, Profanity, Sexual Situations

• Sound : DD5.1
• Language : Eng
• Subtitles : Eng/Spa

• Screen : WSE
• Dar : 1.85:1

Review

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, All Movie Guide

• Release Date : March 12, 2002
• Length : 89 Minutes
• Dvdsides : 1
• Dvddiscs : 1
• Upc : 024543026747