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Saving Grace (2000)

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Reviews Counted: 85

Fresh: 54

Rotten:31

Average Rating: 6/10

Consensus: The plot and basis for jokes are slight, but Saving Grace is indeed saved by some charming performances, most notably Brenda Blethyn's.

Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins

Genre: Comedies

Box Office: $287,452

Synopsis: Set in the beautiful misty fishing town of Port Liac in Cornwall England, SAVING GRACE--an easy-going comic gem--centers on Grace Trevethan (Brenda Blethlyn), a sweet and modest middle-aged lady,... Set in the beautiful misty fishing town of Port Liac in Cornwall England, SAVING GRACE--an easy-going comic gem--centers on Grace Trevethan (Brenda Blethlyn), a sweet and modest middle-aged lady, whose husband commits suicide, leaving her with his grave financial problems. While real estate agents from London prey on Grace, trying to take away her home to settle the debts, she and her faithful gardener, Matthew (Craig Ferguson), devise a plan to grow enough marijuana in her greenhouse to break even. Wiring the greenhouse with super-bright growing lamps that cause the locals to wear sunglasses at night, having the ladies for "tea" resulting in fits of laughter and silly behavior, and pulling the wool over the local vicar's eyes, the whole town gets involved in this secret "joint venture." Once Grace harvests her crop, she hits the high road to London as a pusher, trying to sell the dope to a major dealer and cash out. Director Nigel Cole has hit the nail on the head with this film. The musical score from Mark Russell has a folky, feel-good beat, and the careful filming is colorful and clear. Never once does SAVING GRACE frown on its illegal subject matter, which makes its story all the more entertaining. [More]

Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Craig Ferguson, Martin Clunes, Tcheky Karyo

Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Craig Ferguson, Martin Clunes, Tcheky Karyo, Valerie Edmond, Tristan Sturrock

Director: Nigel Cole

Director: Nigel Cole
Screenwriter: Craig Ferguson, Mark Crowdy
Producer: Mark Crowdy
Composer: Mark Russell

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A pleasant little comedy with the soul of one of those old, much loved Ealing pictures of the forties and fifties but overlayed with a coating of Hollywood glitz.

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12/06/05
Frank Swietek
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05/22/03
Eugene Novikov
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05/20/03
Jim Shelby
Palo Alto Weekly

Grossly overestimates the effects of Marijuana so that it can get the cheap laughs. But it is genuinely and consistently funny

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03/20/03
Brian Mckay
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02/08/03
John R. McEwen
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[Blethyn] brings great heart to the role of Grace, injecting notes of surprising truth into what is otherwise a pleasantly nutty little film.

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02/07/03
Margaret A. McGurk
Cincinnati Enquirer

It's all fluff with the deeply imbedded message that no matter what happens in life, you have to deal with it and move on.

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12/08/02
Ron Wells
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It's a feel good British movie ideal for gangs of middle-aged, middle-minded women on bored afternoons, and toxically saccharine to anyone else.

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12/08/02
Susannah Breslin
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In trying too hard to convince us what good eggs his characters are, Cole creates a shapeless, dramatically unengaging movie.

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12/02/02
Edward Lawrenson
Sight and Sound

...Saving Grace is charming enough and entertaining enough for me to recommend it.

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11/08/02
David Nusair
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11/06/02
Jeff Strickler
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It's a crazy plot, but it works wonderfully, thanks largely to Blethyn's terrific performance.

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10/21/02
Jean Lowerison
San Diego Metropolitan

A Cheech and Chong movie for the art-house crowd.

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06/13/02
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

Saving Grace has a lovely Cornish setting and Blethyn to recommend it, but mostly it's a contact mediocre.

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03/22/02
Liam Lacey
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