This film is far from beautiful and I would agree with rather bent or twisted.

It's another opportunity for Rob Lowe to play in a lunatic like film.

He is brought up in extraordinary wealth and largely ignored by his jet-setting parents. By later in the film, the mother, ably played by a very aged Candice Bergen admits that her marriage to the wealthy magnate was far from a bargain.

The murder scenes are gruesome to say the least as Ben (Lowe) gets the idiot of the year award for putting up with his dazzling but beautiful wife and her escapades of violent behavior directed at him and his mother.

Neurotically sick best describes this film and it doesn't exactly show the Florida police as being savvy in the beginning to figure out what is going on here.

Beautiful And Twisted is an original Lifetime TV movie based on the true story about the Novack Murders and their investigation.It stars Rob Lowe,Paz Vega and Candace Bergen.It touches on themes about love,greed,excess and weirdness.

The setting of the story is at Miami,Florida where a millionaire and heir to a hotel fortune,Ben Novack,Jr goes to a strip club and meets a beautiful and sexy stripper,Narcy.Ben falls for her and they decide to get married going against the wishes of his mother,Bernice.Their marriage is characterized that of kinkiness,adultery,violence,awkwardness and intense love for another.However,it then led to distrust for one another which led to the murders of both Bernice and Ben.A police investigation was made and later found out that the culprits were Narcy and her brother,Cristobal with the motive of acquiring the family fortune.

If there is one reason to see this movie,it is Paz Vega.I love her portrayal as Nancy as the femme fatale.While it may not be an Emmy- Award winning performance,I must say that it was definitely entertaining for it is filled with a lot of sexiness and humor.Also,she made Narcy an interesting character.As for compelling characters,it was also nice to see Rob Lowe provide an entertaining performance as well as Ben Novack,the battered and constantly outsmarted husband. It has qualities of campiness and silliness that the viewer will definitely find it fun and entertaining.

This fascinating and well made true life murder movie is stylishly made with a tongue in cheek humor throughout. The glamor is fun to watch and the murders are quite brutal. The strange marriage and the stranger than fiction killings are very interesting to watch.

The cast is good if much better looking than the real life characters. The stunningly beautiful Paz Vega who looks like a prettier version of Penelope Cruz makes the most of the juicy role as the unbelievably deranged stripper turned murderous wife. Candice Bergen is effective as the disapproving mother in law. Rob Lowe is quite good as the whipped hotel heir who for some strange reason still stayed married to that crazy wife.

Worth a watch.