Greenfingers | | Cast : | Clive Owen, Helen Mirren | | Director : | Joel Hershman | | Studio : | Columbia/Tristar Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | January 01, 2000 | | DVD Released Date : | January 02, 2002 | | Language : | English (Subtitled), English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | January 22, 2005 | | Summary | Little Gem | Content
 | This is a movie I had never even heard of, but with my new found love of Clive Owen movies, I had to check this one out. I just loved it, and I enjoyed watching it a second time, and will probably enjoy it as much the third.
It's a sweet, albiet, mostly predictable movie, but I just don't think there is anything wrong with that. I hope that with Clive Owen becomming even more well know that this little gem will get a second chance to be discovered. It's in the model of so manyn other British comedies that come our way, and it's a movie that will keep a smile on your face right through to the end credits. I think people should treat themselves to this sweet prize. |
| Rating | | | Date | January 20, 2005 | | Summary | Clive Owen has the Greenthumb | Content
| This is a great example of british acting and cinema. Clive is amazing as the prisoner that has a dark secret. He stumbles into gardening at a prison that tries to get the inmates ready for the outside life. It leads to self discover and finding a purpose in the lives of the inmates involve. They even get to enter into some very important contest. They learn by reading a famous gardening experts books , who later sponsors them into contests and exhibts and other work. Helen is also excellent and the supporting cast is awesome! I f you love Clive this is a must see! |
| Rating | | | Date | January 10, 2005 | | Summary | Perfectly decent, perfectly inoffensive, and perfectly dull | Content
| Joel Hershman's "Greenfingers", starring the now-famous (and utterly gorgeous) Clive Owen and Helen Mirren, is a sweet, cutesy, and utterly empty British romantic comedy. In this forgettable, generic chick-flick, inmates at a British minimum-security prison take up gardening. Initially, they are understandably reluctant to garden. But, get this, gardening ends up changing their lives! And, after his parole, Owen's character even commits another crime just so he can go back to prison and garden! And Mirren's character is so impressed with the innmates' gardening that she even has them garden for her! Wow, where do people get this stuff?
Of course, this being a "romantic comedy" and all, there is a romance between Owen and Mirren's daughter that is so incredibly forced, awkward, and contrived that one cannot help but cringe as the two actors attempt to gaze lustfully at each other. In addition, peppered throughout are moments of in-your-face sentimentality and supposed "uplifting moments". And none of it works.
For all its good intentions, "Greenfingers" is as drab and colorless as the cinderblock walls of the inmates' rooms. It's all perfectly decent, perfectly inoffensive, and perfectly dull. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 17, 2004 | | Summary | Great | Content
| I love British romantic comedy, and of all the movies in the genre, this one is my absolute favorite. Not only is the plotline funny, it's smart; that is, there's plot besides boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back. The movie also succeeds at being touching without dipping into sappiness--the Colin/Fergus friendship brings me to tears. The quirky off-plot tidbits make me laugh aloud. Look for the great big guy playing in the dirt. The cinematography is beautiful, as is the sexual chemistry between Colin and Primrose. Clive Owen is a fantastically sexy man, and one of my favorite things about British romantic comedy is that the women are enticing without looking like they belong in a magazine. There are few movies I'd watch over and over again, but this is one of them. |
| Rating | | | Date | April 03, 2004 | | Summary | Greenfingers | Content
| Yet another brilliant British film. Inspired by a true story. |
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