Saving Grace (2000 film)

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Saving Grace

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...

1 Plot summary
2 Filming locations
3 Awards
4 Trivia
5 References
6 External links

[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

2000 Sundance Film Festival

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.