BEASTLY

Year: 2010
USA: CBS Films
UK: Paramount Pictures
Cast: Alex Pettyfer, Vanessa Hudgens, Mary-Kate Olsen, Peter Krause, Dakota Johnson, Erik Knudsen, Karl Graboshas, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Jonathan Dubsky, David Francis, Neil Patrick Harris, Rhiannon Moller-Trotter, Gio Perez, Miguel Mendoza
Director: Daniel Barnz
Country: USA
USA: 95 mins
UK: 86 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for language including some crude comments, drug references and brief violence
UK Certificate: 12A contains infrequent moderate sex references
USA Release Date: 18 March 2011
UK Release Date: 22 April 2011

Synopsis

"Love is never ugly."

Seventeen year-old Kyle (Alex Pettyfer) though spoilt and shallow is one of the most popular boys at his high school. Vain and self-centred he chooses his next victim to humiliate and bully but unwisely chooses Kendra (Mary-Kate Olsen) who unbeknown to him is a witch masquerading as a student. Revenge is short and sweet as Kendra transforms Kyle into an unattractive outcast that befits his inner vindictive and nasty personality traits.

Kyle now has one year to find someone to love him or he will remain 'Beastly' forever. To overcome his gross ‘exterior’ Kyle will have to discover a girl who can see through his unattractive features to his inner self and finds Lindy (Vanessa Hudgens) a quiet classmate he'd ever given a second thought. This may be Kyle's only chance to prove that love is never ugly.