A young woman who dreams of being a children's author makes an unlikely friendship with a cantankerous, rich old widower.
1990, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
5 February 1948, Wharfedale, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
14 September 1989, Cookham, Berkshire, England, UK
27 April 1965, Richmond, Surrey, England, UK
22 February 1933, Blackgang, Isle of Wight, England, UK
21 October 1976, Dublin, Ireland
June 25, 2017
Slow but sweet, clichéd but charming, if whimsy's your thing you'll dig this offbeat, comedic, family-friendly, flight of fancy...
March 10, 2017
A very low-stakes fairy tale, wrapped in a strained garden metaphor.
March 09, 2017
Aboud ... works some obvious parallels as he tells the story of a timid young woman, her cranky old neighbor and the garden that separates them, but enjoyable performances keep the tale from becoming too heavy-handed.
March 16, 2017
Depending on how you take your twee - sparingly or, as is the case in this preciously concocted tale of English misfits, slathered like marmalade over a crumpet - it will either delight or quickly cloy.
March 08, 2017
Far too precious and eager to please to really deserve its self-description as a fairy tale.
March 16, 2017
Simon Aboud's whimsical yet slight This Beautiful Fantastic is the latest in the English Garden subgenre, in the vein of The Lady in the Van or A Man Called Ove (which is Swedish but still qualifies).
March 10, 2017
Whimsical, sweet story about friendship, gardening.
March 17, 2017
The broad strokes of This Beautiful Fantastic are inarguably the stuff of fairy tales. But its heart is purely human.
June 15, 2017
Finlay reminds one of a young Winona Ryder as she winsomely juggles learning to garden with letting her guard down, while the always watchable Andrew Scott once again proves to be a scene-stealer with his kindly cook.
March 15, 2017
A charming, beautifully photographed modern fairy tale about love and gardening, This Beautiful Fantastic is worth seeing in spite of its dumb deterrent of a title.
March 08, 2017
Like its title, with those synonymous adjectives, Simon Aboud's film strings together a story that strains to be charming while actually being immediately predictable.
