Pelastakaa Grace

Original title: Saving Grace

20002000
K-15K-15
1h 33m

A small-town English widow, facing financial troubles after her husband's suicide, turns to agriculture of an illegal kind.A small-town English widow, facing financial troubles after her husband's suicide, turns to agriculture of an illegal kind.A small-town English widow, facing financial troubles after her husband's suicide, turns to agriculture of an illegal kind.

6.9/10

18K

Director
- Nigel Cole
Writers
- Mark Crowdy(story)
- Craig Ferguson(screenplay)
Stars

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Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award
- 4 wins & 9 nominations total

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Brenda Blethyn, Paul Brooke, Martin Clunes, Craig Ferguson, and Dean Lennox Kelly in Saving Grace (2000)

Brenda Blethyn and Craig Ferguson in Saving Grace (2000)

Linda Kerr Scott and Phyllida Law in Saving Grace (2000)

A widow discovers after her husband's suicide that he has mortgaged everything they own and the banks are ready to foreclose. Faced with impending doom and little working knowledge except her ability to grow plants, she struggles to save her home. Enter her gardener, who is struggling to make a few marijuana plants grow in a hidden location and suggests that she use her green house to help grow the plants and sell them to make the money both need. He is wanting to get married, but needs capital. What he doesn't know is that his girl friend is pregnant and thus fears that they will be busted for growing marijuana. While supposedly working, the whole village is well aware of the endeavor and is hoping for their success. When the plants come in, Grace takes the crop to London and tries to sell it to a ruthless, but charming drug dealer. Everything busts loose from there. —John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>

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Taglines
- Grace's doctor is worried about the state of her joints...
Genres
- Comedy
- Crime
Certificate
- K-15
Parents guide

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.

Goofs
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.

Quotes
Jacques Chevalier: All the people I deal with are scum. I'm a little scummy myself. You are not scum. That worries me.
Grace Trevethyn: I take exception to that. I come from a long line of scum. My dear late husband was one of the scummiest men to walk the face of this earth.
Jacques Chevalier: My apologies.

Crazy credits
In the opening credits, the movie title appears and then turns to smoke & blows away while you hear someone exhale.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Hollow Man/The Original Kings of Comedy/Saving Grace/Coyote Ugly/The Tao of Steve (2000)

Soundtracks
Take a Picture
Written by Jennifer Kimball and Rick Giles
Performed by Filter

Top review

A Lovely, Charming Movie

A lovely, charming movie in the vein of Local Hero (http://us.imdb.com/Details?0085859): it populates a small coastal town in Cornwall, England with gentle ordinary folk who all get dragged into or affected by a plan to save a lady in the town who has fallen on hard times.

Lots of little fun bits easily lost in first viewing e.g. note who is serving drinks in the bar at the end of the movie :-) And the scene close to the end of the movie where all the inhabitants are dancing on the lawn, including a naked policeman (you can tell he is a policeman because he still has his helmet on!), is absolutely priceless.

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