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Reviews Counted:16
Fresh:9
Rotten:7
Average Rating:5.2/10
It's what could be termed a gentle comedy, this story about immigrants trying to blend into the fabric of rural British society; a routinely pleasant small comedy that explores Britain's immigration issues and relevant enough to touch a nerve anywhere
This derivative drama might have worked quite well as a four-part mini Sunday night series for the BBC. As a film, however, it fails on almost every count.
Average comedy-drama that's not as moving or as funny as it thinks it is, but remains watchable thanks to strong performances and likeable characters.
Affectionate and heartwarming it will seem to those who enjoy this sort of thing; painfully slow and dramatically inert might be the criticism of doubters.
Director Nimrod Attal manages the setting-up of this situation with some skill, but it's never developed. Nor are any of the characters.
Grow Your Own has about as much edge as a prize melon, but even if the land’s been well filled, there’s still plenty of fertile soil here. Occasionally melancholy, often funny, this is touching, lyrical home-grown fare.
One could wish that this parable of difference and tolerance gladdened the heart, but its effortful comedy has quite the opposite effect. It's just weedy.
This film is more Ground Force than ground-breaking. Watch it on DVD with a nice cup of tea.
With its chirpy score, lovable characters and Festival Of Britain flavour, Grow Your Own would have bedded in nicely as a TV movie. On the big screen, it starts to wilt.
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Well-intentioned, and well-cast, this British movie is nonetheless desperately underpowered.
The movie seems at times so impressed by its own allegory that it lessens the human drama running beneath it.
A gentle, astute, life-affirming British comedy. Dig in.
Hence, while it works as an antidote to the gritty realism of recent British films, Grow Your Own's twee optimism is sometimes a little too much to digest.
Plenty of over-British Britishness in this predictable drama.
Director Richard Laxton offers nothing to convince that we shouldn’t be watching this one-off drama on the box on a Sunday night with one eye closed. More meat and less veg please
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