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Saving Grace [2000]
starring: Brenda Blethyn, Craig Ferguson, Martin Clunes, Tchéky Karyo, Jamie Foreman
directed by: Nigel Cole

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5039036005982
Format: PAL, Widescreen
Label: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Region Code: 2
Release Date: January 14, 2002
Running Time: 90 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: September 01, 2000
Sales Rank: 807

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Amazon.co.uk Review:
A sweet, silly and sincere comedy, Saving Grace resembles a Cheech and Chong pothead comedy, only instead of two scruffy lowlifes the film is about an aimless Scottish gardener and a middle-aged widow with a green thumb. Grace (Brenda Blethyn of Secrets and Lies and Little Voice) has just discovered that her recently deceased husband has left her with an enormous debt when her gardener Matthew (Craig Ferguson, The Big Tease) asks her to help him tend to his small, personal-use marijuana crop. Grace soon realises that they can turn her greenhouse into a hydroponics laboratory and turn out a profitable crop--if only they can keep the local constables at bay and then find a dealer to sell the stuff. Saving Grace has well-developed characters, intelligent dialogue, a charming and capable cast and clean, clear direction. But at heart it's still a marijuana comedy, with most of its funniest moments coming from the silly, stoned behaviour of elderly ladies and others. Nothing wrong with that, and Blethyn and Ferguson give the film a strong anchor. The ending goes a little over the top, but most of the film is well-grounded in genuine human behaviour. A sub-plot about Matthew's girlfriend's pregnancy is treated with respect and integrity. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- whenever I feel a little blue....
This is the one I put on! Have had a videoed version from the TV for a long time but it wore a bit thin from over-use so have just replaced with DVD version.
There's so much to like...the beautiful scenery for a start, the chap who plays Matthew (double yum), the heart-warming tale of community spirit (where did it go?..) the goofy dealer who plays dungeons and dragons, looks like he might duff you up but plays bouncy folk music in his wacky car, and the bit with Matthew and Grace are alone on the beach which cracks me up every single time - I mean really, laugh out loud stuff, it's contagious and a real boost to your health!
No deep and meaningful story but it's so English and charming and lovable, just like Martin Clunes! Wonderful.

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- Growing your own
When a film gets this many stars from this many people there is little to add. This is a wonderful British comedy which stands up to repeat viewing. I tend to watch it when I'm in need of cheering up and it never fails to do that. It encompasses all that is good and weird about village life and the lengths that people will go to help eachother. You may not choose to use your greenhouse to pay off your debts but you'll certainly enjoy watching this crop grow.

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- did we see the same film?
Perhaps I don't have a sense of humour after all, but I'm astonished by the rave reviews for this slight piece of nonsense. The film starts well and is lovely to look at, but rapidly degenerates into not-very-funny farce. Giggly elderly ladies who mistake pot plants for tea, anyone?
Let's put aside the fact that Grace could have solved her financial woes at a stroke - and probably secured her future- by selling her huge, gorgeous pile in a prime Cornish property hotspot. Let's pretend it's far easier to set up a cannabis factory in a greenhouse often visited by the ladies of the WI....
Some of the early scenes are sweet but by the time Grace heads to London in search of a Mr Big on whom to offload her 20 kilos of weed, the whole thing ... Read More:

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- "A Joint Venture"
In a quaint Cornish village, local matron and horticulturalist Grace Trevethyn (Brenda Blethyn) finds herself a new widow with an insurmountable pile of debt. The whole town commiserates with Grace's predicament, but it is Matthew (Craig Ferguson), her gardener, who comes up with a sure-fire plot to raise money for both of them: He will take his few, sickly pot plants to her fancy greenhouse, grow the plants with hydroponics, and make a fortune for both of them!

This really sweet and funny comedy was written, produced by, and stars the irrepressible Craig Ferguson, of late night TV fame. He's quite charming as the gardener who tries to help Grace get back on her feet, financially and emotionally. Brenda Blethyn is perfect as the respectable ... Read More:

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- A single-joke film that ends in unfunny silliness
This is a mildly funny film that helps to pass an evening away, provided that one has nothing better to do. Inheritor of a rambling manor house in a delightfully postcard-picturesque Cornish village, the recently widowed Grace (Brenda Blethyn) finds that she has been left with massive debts by her rascally husband, and resorts to growing cannabis plants as a means of raising the substantial funds that are needed to wipe the slate clean. The single running gag - and it runs and runs until it wilts from exhaustion - is the image of the ever-so-genteel English middle class widow mass-cultivating the well-known naughty herb in her greenhouse. In this potty enterprise, the heroine is assisted by her gardener (Craig Ferguson) and by a full and meticulously-assembled ... Read More:

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