Directed by:
Simon AboudScreenplay:
Simon AboudCinematography:
Mike EleyComposer:
Anne NikitinCast:
Jessica Brown Findlay, Andrew Scott, Jeremy Irvine, Tom Wilkinson, Anna Chancellor, Sheila Hancock, Eileen Davies, Lola SultanVOD (4)
Plots(1)
This Beautiful Fantastic is a contemporary fairy tale revolving around the most unlikely of friendships between a reclusive, agoraphobic young woman with dreams of being a children's book author and a curmudgeonly old widower, set against the backdrop of a beautiful garden in the heart of London. Bella Brown is a beautifully quirky young woman who dreams of writing and illustrating a successful children's book. Despite her abandonment as a child, the all consuming OCD, the unfulfilled dream, her awful boss at the library and her paralyzing fear of flora and fauna, Bella is down but not out. She has a spark, an edge, a talent and a voice that we can feel from the get go. This girl has a preternatural survival instinct, having been found in the middle of winter in the middle of Hyde Park as a babe. When Bella is forced by her landlord to deal with her neglected garden or face eviction, she meets her nemesis, match and mentor in Alfie Stephenson, a cantankerous, loveless, rich old man who lives next door and is an amazing horticulturalist. (Madman Entertainment)
(more)Cast
![Jessica Brown Findlay](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/993/161993624_fa4659.jpg)
Jessica Brown Findlay
UK
Best movies:
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
This Beautiful Fantastic (2016)
The Outcast (2015) (series)
![Andrew Scott](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/165/049/165049730_cea9ff.jpg)
Andrew Scott
Ireland
Best movies:
National Theatre Live: Vanya (2024) (theatrical recording)
Present Laughter (2019) (theatrical recording)
Sherlock (2010) (series) - actor, a.f.
![Jeremy Irvine](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/780/164780776_98692b.jpg)
Jeremy Irvine
UK
Best movies:
Now Is Good (2012)
This Beautiful Fantastic (2016)
The Professor and the Madman (2019)
![Tom Wilkinson](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/168/458/168458054_s7uzko.jpg)
Tom Wilkinson
UK
Best movies:
Batman Begins (2005)
In the Name of the Father (1993)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
![Anna Chancellor](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/139/163139251_3421f0.jpg)
Anna Chancellor
UK
Best movies:
Agatha Christie: Poirot (1989) (series)
Testament of Youth (2014)
Agatha Christie's Marple (2004) (series)
Sheila Hancock
UK
Best movies:
Endeavour (2012) (series)
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)
After Thomas (2006) (TV movie)
Eileen Davies
Best movies:
Foyle's War (2002) (series)
Middlemarch (1994) (series)
Vera Drake (2004)
Lola Sultan
Best movies:
This Beautiful Fantastic (2016)
In Dubious Battle (2016)
Bernie the Dolphin (2018)