Saving Grace (DVD)

...expanded on this character from Saving Grace for his "Doc Martin" films/TV series). He is also in love with Nicky, while being in cahoots with Matthew in his illicit pot growing. Set in picturesque Cornwall, Nigel Cole makes his big-screen film direction debut with this picture. Cole takes full advantage of all the possible twists a script like this can offer, and keeps the stereotypes to an absolute minimum - drawing upon them only when slapstick ...
...keeps gives every character an opportunity to be liked by the viewers - even if they are one of the 'bad guys'. With this, the film holds lovingly together and keeps the audience's attention to the very end. Moreover, the laughs are perfectly timed so that you've just finished wiping away a tear from the last one in time to catch the next one about to put you on the floor once again. The one drawback - I was a little put off by the ending which ...

TheChocolateLady 24.01.2001 (17.02.2005) · Read full review
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...**What It's About** Saving Grace is exactly what the title says the film is about; saving Grace (Brenda Blethyn), a middle aged widow whose passion is gardening and whose husband has just died and left her in thousands and thousands of pounds worth of debt. Due to failed business plans and mortgaging and re-mortgaging their home, Grace is desperate. And just to add salt to the wound, her husband's mistress turns up at the funeral but she ends up ...
...lovely sexy gardener, Matthew played by Craig Ferguson is forced out of his job because she can't afford to pay him so it seems like Matthew and Grace are in dire straights because without any money, Grace's house will be repossessed and without a job Matthew will have to move back to Glasgow and take his unhappy fisher girlfriend with him. That is of course until Matthew's little drug habit conjures up a masterful plan for the pair of them to become ...

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...lot to do with her saving her home, plants that are of a somewhat illegal nature. The interaction of village people, the village priest, doctor, and bobby are so funny, you have to see this film to appreciate it. A gentle film that brings British comedy into modern living in a way that makes me think of all things British. Do watch this movie. The actual price I paid was eight pounts from E'bay on DVD, but it was the best eight pounds that I have ...
...is French and therefore does not have the normal age ratings, but I would suggest that you view your copy and decide who it is suitable for. My guess would be that it would be an 18. This is the kind of film to invite friends to watch, to enjoy an evening of entertainment that you will not forget in a hurry. British made, British humour, and somehow the gentility that the British seem to retain is shown by Brenda Blethyn's innocense and naivity. ...

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The plot: Blethyn's husband dies and leaves her with huge debts. She collaborates with the gardener, and the two of them hatch a smokin' plot to rescue her house and lifestyle from the ruthless debt collectors. The confusion: I found it really difficult to get into the story as I was distracted by the confusion as to where the is set. The ecletic mix of Irish, Scottish, London and Cornish accents are totally confusing. And that's just when the actors ...
...French doing her "How err yooy" Irish accent on more than one occasion. The laughs: However, the story does deserve some credit -particularly for its originality. The comedy element is ther as well. Brenda Blethyn does a great job, as the rich housewife turned drugs criminal, and Martin Clunes provides the requisite drunken slapstick laughs. You'll love the scene with the two old newsagent ladies who get the giggles after becoming passively stoned. ...

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When her husband dies, formerly well-to-do Grace finds out that not only was he a crook but that he has also left her penniless and with massive debts. With eviction looming, she is at a loss about what to do until her pot-smoking gardener, Matthew, suggests that she puts her gardening skills to good use by growing and selling copious amounts of marijuana. The inhabitants of this sleepy Cornish village soon feel the effects. What's refreshing about ...
...choose to enjoy the effects of "de 'erb". Only Matthew's girlfriend Nicky raises any objection to his being involved in the scheme, and only then because she is pregnant and fears that he will be arrested. The authority figures are portrayed as either kind-hearted, understanding types or just incompetent. Much of the film, like Grace herself, comes across as either quaint or just naive. In particular, the scenes of unsuspecting villagers getting ...

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This film is a delight to watch. From the opening sequences to the end you are simply rivetted to this hillarious story, which is beautifully filmed and features tremendous actors. Starring the talented Brenda Blethyn, gorgeous Craig Ferguson and dopey Martin Clunes as the druggie GP ?!?!? Left impoverished by her swine of a husband, widow Grace, because of her financial straights and with help from her laconic gardener decides to start growing canabis. ...
...when they try to rig up a generator for the lights in the greenhouse and every night the greenhouse lit up whole countryside, When Grace goes down to London and walks the streets stopping likely looking people trying to find a dealer to buy the stuff they have harvested, or When the two little old shop ladies take a plant, thinking it's tea and end up stoned. Really funny. I won't give any of the plot away - you have GOT to see the film, needless ...

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...and they live happy ever after. Saving Grace is quite funny on times and the cast although mostly unknown gel together well!It's nice to see for once an original British film that doesn't center around gangsters. You should watch this film just for some escapism if nothing else! ...

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Saving Grace is a little-publicised film that came out quite recently, although it might have stopped showing now at the big cinemas because it's not a major crowd-puller. It's set in a cornish fishing village where a middle aged woman who has been recently widowed discovers that here husband has left her with loads of debts, and she has no way of repaying them. She just happens to be a fantastic gardener, and gets together with some local lads who ...

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When I first saw a preview of this film on a trailer it looked very good and a film I would make a point of wanting to go and see or get out on video. To my delight while travelling on a virgin flight to the states, they were showing it on board the flight! It took a while to get started with the usual reading of the will stuff but the humour came when they started to grow 'weed', a jokable, debatable subject that in the hands of someone not usual ...
...this film, can be very hilarious. The best part, in my opinion, is where she is trying to offload it/find a buyer. A drug dealer would never just walk down the street with a bag full of the stuff asking anyone to purchase it but some of the characters that were approached made it just as funny as what she was trying to do. ...

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This is a very pleasant film. Sure, it starts off with a well used scenario, a retired lady left bankrupt by her ambitious dead husband. Facing the loss of all she has ever known, homelessness looks a likely possibility. Something has to be done and the corrisponding hour leaves you laughing and with a grin on your face. The slightly weak plot is reinforced by the great acting you expect from Brenda Blethin. This is not a big money, special effect ...

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...she finds that one of the villagers is growing marijuana, it's only a matter of time before, as a keen gardener, she lends a hand. This is gentle British humour, in the same was as Saving Ned last year. Inoffensive (apart from the drugs references) and very enjoyable comedy. ...

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...following huge marijuana fire. Saving Grace fits neatly into the gentle Britcomedy mould of Full Monty or Waking Ned. Words like whimsical or, dare one say, heartwarming are likely to feature in most reviews. But there is a good side to it too. You have to see this film for one reason, and one reason only: although it may be slightly sick to watch 80-year old WI members getting stoned, it also makes one of the funniest film scenes of the last few ...

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Whoever came up with this absurd story may well have smoking some of their own subject. Grace, a respectable, well-bred leading member of the WI, is widowed and discovers that her late unfaithful husband has left her saddled with huge debts, a re-mortgage and no assets. However, her one talent is gardening, and she specialises in hothouses. When her gardener asks for her help to save a sickly hemp plant, Grace forms a plan to grow one large harvest ...
...This gives rise to predictable frolics as she attempts to hide her new career from the local residents of the quaint Cornish fishing village, but there are several truly funny moments (watch out for the blazing light from heaven!). However, the film briefly becomes slightly darker when the action transfers to London, and the final showdown looms large in the hothouse. Overall, this film is quirky and surreal enough to be a much better than average ...

Kate 07.06.2000 · Read full review
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Save me! I am the new Fan of Brenda Blethyn! Her Acting was outsanding in this B-rate film, I must admit It wasn't the worst film I've seen in my life I did rather enjoy it. It starts of with Grace Jones a middle class woman with a massive House in a small village who has just lost her husband. Soon after the funeral She discovers he was badly in debt and she is going to loose everything she owns including her massive house. From the help of her ...
...to grow marjuna in Grace's Greenhouse and split the money. The film takes off from there, cue Stupid Jokes, double meanings and silly Mis-haps. This film will not have you wanting to laugh all through although there are a few parts which will have laughing out loud! So enjoy this film if you are going to watch it, I enjoyed Hope you do to! ...

Mattroberts 15.08.2002 · Read full review
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Yes, it's set in Cornwall, and yes, it's full of old people, but this film's hilarious! The basic story is about an old dear whose husband's died and has been using all of their assets in his failed business ventures. He has left her no money and the repo men are starting to appear and reclaim the debts. It's then that her Glaswegian gardener suggests growing cannabis to settle the debts. Of course this all eventually gets out of hand and hell breaks ...
...doctor, and the acting by the rest of the British cast is fantastic. If you like British comedies then you will love this film to bits, if four weddings wasn't your cup of tea, bear in mind this is no slushy love film and is entirely based around laughs. This truly is the best Brit comedy to date! ...

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