Stars: Brenda Blethyn, Craig Ferguson, Martin Clunes, Tcheky Karyo, Jamie Foreman, Bill Bailey, Valerie Edmond, Leslie Phillips, Clive Merrison, Diana Quick

Director: Nigel Cole

Summary: Grace Trevethan finds herself in serious debt after her husband dies falling from an aeroplane with no parachute. Her gardener Matthew suggests that Grace could help grow his marijuana plants and they convert her greenhouse into a pot farm... now all they have to do is sell it and collect the cash...

SAVING GRACE is genuinely funny British comedy about Grace, a recently widowed woman who risks losing her wonderful estate and beautiful garden because of the huge debts her husband left when he died. To cure her financial ailments, she uses her horticultural talent to raise--and then sell--marijuana plants. But, when Grace gets herself caught between the police, some serious London drug pushers, and the real estate agents who have a claim on the estate, audiences will certainly turn a blind eye to the law in order to "save Grace."

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Reviewed by: davybozal24-7
Posted on March 18, 2006 8:08 PM

Grace Trevethen's late husband jumped out of a plane without a parachute . Grace has been left with a manor on the Cornish Coast
and the massive , suffocating mountain of debt her husband had been secretly amassing . Now with creditors and repossessors on her heels , Grace ( Brenda Blethyn ) is faced with the prospect of losing everything . Desperate times call for deperate measures , so when Grace is asked to tend an ailing , if illicit , plant belonging to the manor's soon- to- be- sacked caretaker Matthew ( Craig Ferguson) , she gets an outrageous idea. Pure funny in every department man!

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A sweet, silly and sincere comedy, Saving Graceresembles 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 Liesand 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 Gracehas 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

Aspect Ratio:	16:9 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Featurette - 1. THE MAKING OF SAVING GRACE, Trailer - 1. Original Theatrical, Interviews - 1. Cast & Crew
Year:	2000
Release Date:	January 14, 2002
Runtime:	90 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	19359 D V D
Keywords:	Comedy, Off, General, Wide, Screen, Grace, Saving, Schedule
Genre:	Comedy