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Grow Your Own

  • 20072007
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  • 1h 41m
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Grow Your Own (2007)
An English community gets testy when a refuge family is granted a plot of land on which to grow vegetables.
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An English community gets testy when a refuge family is granted a plot of land on which to grow vegetables.An English community gets testy when a refuge family is granted a plot of land on which to grow vegetables.An English community gets testy when a refuge family is granted a plot of land on which to grow vegetables.
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    • Richard Laxton
    • Frank Cottrell Boyce(screenplay)
    • Carl Hunter(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Benedict Wong
    • Eddie Marsan
    • Omid Djalili
    • Richard Laxton
    • Frank Cottrell Boyce(screenplay)
    • Carl Hunter(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Benedict Wong
    • Eddie Marsan
    • Omid Djalili
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    • 14User reviews
    • 5Critic reviews
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    7/10
    entertaining if familiar
    This was a nice Little film, Nice is probably the crucial word because it did suffer from the British film comedy pitfall of using stock characters while tying everything up too "nicely" at the end. The Eddie Marsan / Olivia Coleman romance storyline must have seemed like well trodden paths through their allotted stories and they pulled off trademark, lovable loser, performances that I am sure would come across as heart-warming if we hadn't seen them many times before. And there were a few other comedy stalwarts playing within similar well ploughed furrows.

    That said, there was much to commend the film - the characters were familiar but you felt a warmth for all (of whom you were intended to) and the script although a little threadbare in places had some great moments too; the Grumpy old Rebel and the Chinese family were extremely well written and played. The cinematography was much better than some comments have implied too - there is one shot of darkened clouds over the allotments and a couple of other night-time views that were pretty impressive.

    Its a story about a set of allotments and the changing ethnic shape of working class society and as such it is well meaning and entertaining .. yes we have seen much of it before .. yes there have been better Brit films and if you want a hard-biting film about the state of British society or the evils of racism in Britain today, there is a lot better out there but....

    I sat in a showing (late admittedly) in a major British City, in that Cities main Cinema, on a Saturday night, on only the second night after the films release, i was the ONLY viewer!! I hope that is not an indication of the films fate because it deserves better than that
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      • June 15, 2007 (United Kingdom)
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      • Caryl Street, Toxteth, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
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      • Warp Films
      • Art in Action
      • BBC Films
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    • 1 hour 41 minutes
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