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Saving Grace
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Saving Grace reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 62 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
9.0 out of 10
based on 33 reviews
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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  
WRITTEN BY: Mark Crowdy (also story)
Craig Ferguson
 
DIRECTED BY: Nigel Cole  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: December 19, 2000 
Video: December 19, 2000 
Theatrical: August 4, 2000 
RUNNING TIME: 94 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: UK 

What The Critics Said

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90
Dallas Observer Bill Gallo
In short, Just Say Yes.
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88
New York Post Lou Lumenick
A real high in a season filled with unfunny comedies.
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80
Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector
Solid formula comedy.
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80
Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
It's a breezy and entertaining little charmer.
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80
Film.com Peter Brunette
Has a charm that keeps you involved throughout.
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80
LA Weekly F. X. Feeney
It's a fresh installment in what appears to be a self-perpetuating sitcom of British life.
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80
Variety Joe Leydon
Harvests a bumper crop of laughs.
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80
Los Angeles Times Jan Stuart
It makes you giggle. That's the dark, dirty secret. You giggle. You giggle again.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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75
Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard
After an uproarious first half, Saving Grace arrives at its conclusion somewhat hastily and conveniently.
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75
New York Daily News Jami Bernard
Has that same air of silly innocence, a rarity in today's movies.
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70
Village Voice Dennis Lim
Constipated English whimsy for the easily tickled.
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70
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Thoroughly dotty and surprisingly endearing.
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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.
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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.
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63
Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
Blethyn glides through the proceedings elegantly, a comic swan among ducks.
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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."
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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.
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58
Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Wrings laughs from the antics of affable, eccentric villagers who cheerily break the law.
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58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
Never quite rises above its one-joke situation.
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50
Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Blethyn's lively acting and some visually amusing moments lend spice to this minor but engaging comedy.
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50
San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris
Determined to be inoffensively tidy and cute above all else.
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50
Portland Oregonian Kim Morgan
A sweet, loopy British comedy filled with good actors and funny moments.
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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.
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50
Film.com Ernest Hardy
Coy, cutesy, sentimental, and shamelessly manipulative.
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40
TNT RoughCut Susannah Breslin
Better in the end to skip it, and make Mother go it alone.
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40
TNT RoughCut Susannah Breslin
Better in the end to skip it, and make Mother go it alone.
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40
Slate David Edelstein
I've shot people for less.
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40
Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
A real audience pleaser.
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25
San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
It tries to get by on charm. It doesn't.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 9.0 (out of 10) based on 11 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Dennis gave it a10:
Hilarious Beautiful location (Port Isaac).

Gilbert M. gave it a 7:
Decent film though.

Misha H. gave it a 9:
An enjoyable comedy... bound to make you laugh.

Geordie S. gave it a 9:
Not "Ned Divine," but a heck of a funny movie. Not high art, but laughed out loud in a movie theatre for the first time in just ages.

Gillian T. gave it a 10:
Best movie ever.

Ryan M. gave it an 8:
A mostly good fairy tale. A fable in the same category as "Chocolat" and "Waking Ned Devine," "Saving Grace" may charm and please but might be unpleasuring to some. But it sure pleasured me.

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