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Overview

User Rating:
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Director:
Nigel Cole
Writers:
Mark Crowdy (story)
Craig Ferguson (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
1 September 2000 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Crime more
Tagline:
Grace's doctor is worried about the state of her joints... more
Plot:
A small-town English widow, facing financial troubles after her husband's suicide, turns to agriculture of an illegal kind. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 3 wins & 8 nominations more
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(53 articles)
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User Comments:
Drug trafficking, the elegant way. more (116 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Brenda Blethyn ... Grace Trevethyn

Craig Ferguson ... Matthew Stewart
Martin Clunes ... Dr. Martin Bamford

Tchéky Karyo ... Jacques Chevalier (as Tcheky Karyo)
Jamie Foreman ... China MacFarlane
Bill Bailey ... Vince
Valerie Edmond ... Nicky
Tristan Sturrock ... Harvey
Clive Merrison ... Quentin Rhodes
Leslie Phillips ... Rev. Gerald Percy
Diana Quick ... Honey Chambers
Phyllida Law ... Margaret Sutton
Linda Kerr Scott ... Diana Skinner
Denise Coffey ... Mrs. Hopkins
Paul Brooke ... Charlie
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Saving Grace (Australia) (Ireland: English title) (UK)
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MPAA:
Rated R for drug content and language.
Runtime:
93 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English | French
Colour:
Colour
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital | DTS

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Trivia:
Some of the marijuana plants used in the shooting were real. The British government gave permission to the filming crew the use of 150 marijuana plants, under supervision of the authorities. This meant that the plants had someone guarding them on the set, and watching over its transportation to a nearby storage facility for its safekeeping at night. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Matthew is climbing up the ladder and Grace speaks to him out of her window, his left hand is alternately on/off the rung between shots. more
Quotes:
Jacques Chevalier: Do I look like I would cut someone's finger off?
Grace Trevethyn: Oh, yes.
Jacques Chevalier: Thank you.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Grandma's Boy (2006) more
Soundtrack:
Witchcraft more

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23 out of 30 people found the following comment useful.
Drug trafficking, the elegant way., 21 December 2003
Author: shu-fen from Hong Kong, China

What is so startling to me is the number of comments here. How come, 93! The film has utterly fallen into obscurity in town. I just by chance popped by a VCD shop, which is on sale, and so fortunately to have picked up this hilarious movie (73pence or US$1.29 ^_^).

The film title is just funny enough to make you associate the story with it.

Grace, played by the versatile actress Brenda Blethyn, was in financial trouble. And this small and elegant English village lady cannot but save herself by a not-so-elegant trade through the help of her own gardener and her late husband's unseen mistress in London.

I especially like the daredevil scene when Grace is fully dressed up touting her masterpiece cannabis (cultured in her own green house) to the undesirable figures in sleazy areas in London. Her act is comical, prudent and daring at the same time. I find it hard to imagine a well-dressed and French speaking Chinese grandma would approach me touting home-made grass so reeklessly in Wanchai or Mongkok.

English humour or European subtlety can never be reproduced by Hollywood, the air, the smell, everything belongs to the Brits and Europeans. Lovely small production with bold attempt.

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