Saving Grace
A heart-warming
comedy, Saving Grace stars award-winning actress Brenda Blethyn as a
newly widowed woman who is faced with the prospect of financial ruin. Under
the tutelage of her fun loving gardener (Ferguson), she turns her green thumb
to enterprise - exchanging prize-winning orchids for marijuana plants and risking
the safety of her idyllic Cornwall lifestyle for London's seedy underworld.
Grace's adventure quickly turns to mayhem and she must rely on an eccentric
group of locals (as well as a few new friends) to stay one step ahead of the
law. Saving Grace premiered at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival where
it won the Audience Prize in the World Cinema section.
Release Date: August 4th, 2000 (LA/NY); August 18th, 2000 (expands into other cities in limited release)
Award: Audience Award (World Cinema), 2000 Sundance Film Festival.
Running Time: 94 minutes
Distributor: Fine Line Features
Cast: Brenda Blethyn (Grace), Craig Ferguson, Tcheky Karyo, Martin Clunes,
Jamie Forman, Bill Bailey, Ken Campbell, Valerie Edmond, Phyllida Law, Clive
Merrison, Leslie Phillips, Diana Quick, Linda Kerr Scott, Tristan Sturrock
Director: Nigel Cole (feature film debut)
Screenwriters: Mark Crowdy (debut), Craig Ferguson (cowriter of The Big
Tease)
Reviews
Salon
"It's a breezy and entertaining little charmer that works because it's not rendered on too precious a scale."Sundance
The charming finale soundly revokes the adage of crime not paying.
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