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Saving Grace
Fine Line Features
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for drug content and language
Starring
Brenda Blethyn,
Craig Ferguson,
and
Martin Clunes
A recent widow finds herself with a home and large garden, and also a large mortgage and other debts. Her gardener suggests a way to solve the problem and use all the gardens. . .grow marijuana.
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Mark Crowdy (also story)
Craig Ferguson
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Nigel Cole
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: December 19, 2000
Video: December 19, 2000
Theatrical: August 4, 2000
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| RUNNING TIME: |
94 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
UK |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
90
Dallas Observer
Bill Gallo
In short, Just Say Yes.
88
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
A real high in a season filled with unfunny comedies.
80
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
Solid formula comedy.
80
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
It's a breezy and entertaining little charmer.
80
Film.com
Peter Brunette
Has a charm that keeps you involved throughout.
80
LA Weekly
F. X. Feeney
It's a fresh installment in what appears to be a self-perpetuating sitcom of British life.
80
Variety
Joe Leydon
Harvests a bumper crop of laughs.
80
Los Angeles Times
Jan Stuart
It makes you giggle. That's the dark, dirty secret. You giggle. You giggle again.
75
Baltimore Sun
Ron Dicker
It has enough humanity to let the humor tickle, and a subject that will evoke memories for anyone who has ever smoked a joint or just said no.
75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Desmond Ryan
A comedy of the old school. Depending on your view of the current state of screen humor, that's either a promise or a warning.
75
USA Today
Staff [Not Credited]
Though not quite up to "The Full Monty" or "Waking Ned Devine," there's just enough left in that overseas whimsy stockpile to generate good buzz (the word-of-mouth moviegoer kind).
75
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
After an uproarious first half, Saving Grace arrives at its conclusion somewhat hastily and conveniently.
75
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
Has that same air of silly innocence, a rarity in today's movies.
70
Village Voice
Dennis Lim
Constipated English whimsy for the easily tickled.
70
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Thoroughly dotty and surprisingly endearing.
70
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Blethyn's solid-gold charm turns Saving Grace into a comic high.
63
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
It's funny and charming most of the time, thanks to Brenda Blethyn.
63
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Whimsy and wit are the saving graces of much British movie comedy, and Saving Grace has a decent measure of both.
63
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Blethyn glides through the proceedings elegantly, a comic swan among ducks.
60
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
That they're English and elderly apparently makes their antics screamingly funny to people who would turn up their noses at similar humor in a film like "Scary Movie."
60
Time
Richard Schickel
Grace is not as tightly wound as the best of its breed, but it is a genial way to pass the time.
58
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Wrings laughs from the antics of affable, eccentric villagers who cheerily break the law.
58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
Never quite rises above its one-joke situation.
50
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Blethyn's lively acting and some visually amusing moments lend spice to this minor but engaging comedy.
50
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
Determined to be inoffensively tidy and cute above all else.
50
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
A sweet, loopy British comedy filled with good actors and funny moments.
50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
We're left with a promising idea for a comedy, which arrives at some laughs but never finds its destination.
50
Film.com
Ernest Hardy
Coy, cutesy, sentimental, and shamelessly manipulative.
40
TNT RoughCut
Susannah Breslin
Better in the end to skip it, and make Mother go it alone.
40
TNT RoughCut
Susannah Breslin
Better in the end to skip it, and make Mother go it alone.
40
Slate
David Edelstein
I've shot people for less.
40
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
A real audience pleaser.
25
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
It tries to get by on charm. It doesn't.
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