Saving Grace (2000 film)
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Saving Grace | |
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Directed by | Nigel Cole |
Produced by | Mark Crowdy Xavier Marchand Cat Villiers |
Written by | Mark Crowdy Craig Ferguson |
Starring | Brenda Blethyn Craig Ferguson Martin Clunes Tchéky Karyo Jamie Foreman Bill Bailey Valerie Edmond Tristan Sturrock |
Music by | Mark Russell |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release date(s) | August 4, 2000 |
Running time | 93 min. |
Language | English |
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Saving Grace is a 2000 comedy/crime film, starring Brenda Blethyn, Craig Ferguson and Martin Clunes.
Tagline: Grace's doctor is worried about the state of her joints...
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[edit] Plot summary
Unexpectedly widowed, prim and proper housewife Grace Trevethyn finds herself in dire financial straights when she inheirits massive debts her late husband been secretly accruing for years. Faced with losing her house and having no way to come up with the large amount of money necessary to set things straight, Grace can’t see a way out of her problems. However, her laid-back gardener is well aware of Grace’s gift with horticulture, as well as her desperate need for money, and hatches a plan to grow potent marijuana which can be sold at an astronomic price, thus solving her crisis. However, whether Grace and her gardener will be able to hide their illegal enterprise from the quaint and curious townsfolk, and iron out the sticky business of finding a way actually peddle their wares, remains to be seen.
[edit] Filming locations
- Boscastle, Cornwall, England
- Port Isaac, Cornwall, England
- London, England
[edit] Awards
- Audience Award - Nigel Cole
2000 Norwegian International Film Festival
- Audience Award - Nigel Cole
2000 Munich Film Festival
- High Hopes Award - Mark Crowdy
[edit] Trivia
- Some of the marijuana plants used in the film were real. The British government granted permission for the use of them in the film (150 plants) under supervision and guarding.
[edit] References
- Saving Grace production details IMDB.com. Retrieved January 21, 2005.
- Saving Grace trivia details IMDB.com. Retrieved January 21, 2005.