This Beautiful Fantastic is a 2016 British romantic drama film directed and written by Simon Aboud and starring Jessica Brown Findlay, Tom Wilkinson, Andrew Scott, Jeremy Irvine, Anna Chancellor, and Eileen Davies.

Bella meets her next-door-neighbor, a curmudgeonly widower named Alfie Stevenson, and his cook Vernon.

She also starts a romance with Billy, an inventor who frequents the library, and who inspires her to begin writing a new story.

[7][8] Negative reviews focused on having too many distracting questions, such as why Bella doesn’t just hire a gardener for a few days[7] and the film’s depiction of troubled mental health as a charming eccentricity.

[8][9] Sheri Linden calls the film "sweet but not saccharine" and Neil Genzlinger writes "enjoyable performances keep the tale from becoming too heavy-handed".