Saving Grace | | Cast : | Brenda Blethyn | | Director : | Nigel Cole | | Studio : | New Line Home Entertainment | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | September 01, 2000 | | DVD Released Date : | December 19, 2000 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 02, 2005 | | Summary | Laugh Out Loud Funny! British Comedy. | Content
 | Absolutely loved this British Comedy! In the spirit of "The Full Monty" this story revolves around a get rich scheme in England. Grace is left a widow by the death of her husband and a pauper as well. She had no idea he had mortgaged their 300 year old house and everything in it. But, along comes the solution. She is a wonderful greenhouse gardener and her gardener beings a problem to her... A couple of his plants are dying and he needs and expert.
Just what his plants are leads to some of the funniest parts of the movie. Between that and the entire town turning a blind eye to her new project, as they all "love Grace" will make you laugh out loud.
Wonderful "real people" ensemble cast. No one is too beautiful and in fact more than a few are the average kind of person.
Everyone over 18 that likes a good comedy should see this one.
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| Rating | | | Date | June 04, 2005 | | Summary | A Widow Flouts the Law to Save Her Home | Content
| This movie is about a well-to-do woman named Grace whos husband dies and leaves her with the debts he incurred for his business ventures in which he used their 300 year old house as collateral for the loans the husband defaulted on. Since Grace has no job skills and no where else to go, she ends up growing and selling marijuana with the help of her gardner (who is a casual marijuana smoker) to pay her bills! I have read of people who lived in costal towns in places like England who would participate in smuggling to avoid tariffs to better themselves and their communities. This film seems to take from that idea since many in the town where Grace lives know about what she is doing. What I loved is the seeming innocence and sweetness on the part of Grace while doing what she does. The whole movie itself is a testament to the idiocy of the war on (some) drugs as well as a hilarious comedy that has an unlikely happy ending worth picking up for a rental and even adding to your DVD/VHS library.
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| Rating | | | Date | September 28, 2004 | | Summary | laugh out loud fun | Content
| How this movie did not win any awards, I will never know. I was laughing for days after watching this clever, funny, sweet, movie....if you were not lucky enough to catch this one in theatres, buy it...you wont be sorry. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 02, 2004 | | Summary | Pass the dutchie, Grace | Content
| I loved Brenda Blethyn so much in "Secrets and Lies" that picking up "Saving Grace" was a no-brainer for me. Grace Trevethyn (Blethyn) is devestated by her husband's sudden suicide, but even more astonished at what apparently brought it on- he mortgaged everything they own and the bank is ready to foreclose. As Grace brainstorms how to get the dosh to keep her home, her gardner and loyal friend Matthew ("Drew Carey"s Craig Ferguson), whose girlfriend is unexpectedly pregnant, offers Grace a solution that will solve their prospective money woes: use Grace's horticulture know-how and ample greenhouse to nurse and multiply his marijuana plant to sell to a dealer. The humor sometimes slips into Benny Hill mode as Matthew and his doctor friend Martin (played by "British Men Behaving Badly"'s Martin Clunes, who is also the voice of the children's cartoon "Kipper")help Grace fend off the bank and the cops, not to mention the stodgy residents who all know what Grace is up to, but don't discuss it. One of the films funniest moments comes when two old ladies (one of whom is played by Emma Thompson's Mum Phyllida Law) stumble upon Grace's stash and think it's tea. They brew up a cuppa and get seriously stoned. Then, the film takes a more ridiculous approach as Grace and her husband's mistress enter a seedy London club to find a dealer to sell the stuff to. Still, this little ripple isn't enough to bring "Saving Grace" down to 4 stars for me. All around jolly good fun! |
| Rating | | | Date | June 03, 2004 | | Summary | It'll sneak up on you | Content
| This charming, amusing film starts out fairly quiet and unassuming. When the recently widowed Grace Trevethyn (Brenda Blethyn) finds that her husband left her with a pile of debt, she slowly realizes that if she doesn't find a way to increase her income dramatically, she would lose her house. Her gardener Matthew Stewart (Craig Ferguson) encourages her to help him with his struggling pot plants. She takes this to her greenhouse and is hit by an idea on how to make money. All this is encouraged by her doctor Martin Bamford (Martin Clunes). Watching the remaining sequence of events unfold will leave you laughing. |
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