Based on the 1992 novel by Alasdair Gray, Poor Things is about a woman given a clean slate via an experimental procedure from a mad scientist of sorts, Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe).

Willem Dafoe is mad scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter. Credit: Yorgos Lanthimos / Searchlight Pictures Adapted from Alasdair Gray's novel of the same name, Poor Things is essentially a reimagining of ...

Dr. Godwin Baxter is named ... However, the most outsize example of Shelley's feminist influence in Poor Things may lie within the parallels between Bella and Safie, a minor character in ...

Poor Things is the latest from Greek filmmaker/certified madman Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite, The Lobster). Stone stars as a formerly dead woman resurrected by a macabre scientist, Dr. Godwin ...

Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, “Poor Things” follows Bella Baxter (Emma Stone), a young woman in a fantastical Victorian London resurrected, a la Frankenstein, after her suicide by Dr. Godwin Baxter ...

Stone’s she-monster Bella Baxter is the brainchild of Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe ... One might say that “Poor Things” is the crueller “Cruella.” “Poor Things” is in fact ...

Poor Things was one of 2023’s best movies ... woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe). Under Baxter’s protection, Bella is ...

"Poor Things" is one of the most buzzed about movies ... a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter, played by Willem Dafoe.

"Poor Things," starring Arizona native Emma Stone ... she is brought back to life with an infant brain by mad scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter, played by Willem Dafoe. While on this journey, she ...