Saving Grace

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Saving Grace

R,

2000,

1h 34m,

Comedy

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63%

81 Reviews

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83%

10,000+ Ratings

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63%

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81 Reviews

83%

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10,000+ Ratings

Brenda Blethyn stars as Grace Trevethen, whose late husband jumped out of a plane without a parachute. Grace has been left with a manor on the Cornish Coast - and the massive, suffocating mountain of debt her husband had been secretly amassing. Now, with creditors and repossessors on her heels, Grace is faced with the prospect of losing everything. Desperate times call for desperate measures, so when Grace is asked to tend an ailing, if illicit, plant she gets an outrageous idea.

Critics Consensus

The plot and basis for jokes are slight, but Saving Grace is indeed saved by some charming performances, most notably Brenda Blethyn's.

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Michael Thomson

BBC.com

Mar 5, 2024

5/5

The script has been worked on to great effect so that the timing of the comedy is just right, the punchlines are delivered in all the proper places, and there is breathing space in between the bouts of increasing comic madness.

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Edward Lawrenson

Sight & Sound

Dec 2, 2002

In trying too hard to convince us what good eggs his characters are, Cole creates a shapeless, dramatically unengaging movie.

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Liam Lacey

Globe and Mail

Mar 22, 2002

2.5/4

Saving Grace has a lovely Cornish setting and Blethyn to recommend it, but mostly it's a contact mediocre.

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Jim Lane

Sacramento News & Review

Aug 7, 2008

3/5

Frank Swietek

One Guy's Opinion

Dec 6, 2005

B-

A pleasant little comedy with the soul of one of those old, much loved Ealing pictures of the forties and fifties but overlayed with a coating of Hollywood glitz.

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Robin Clifford

Reeling Reviews

Apr 9, 2005

C

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Hagrid R

Feb 19, 2019

One of the best of British comedies. Very funny.

Harry S

Jan 19, 2019

Brilliant- made before its time...so incredibly funny!!

Jul 14, 2018

Very down to earth and heartfelt. Splashses of comedy coupled wth amazing scenery

Harry W

Dec 10, 2017

This hasn't aged well at all, it's so unbelievably corny.

Han W

Aug 9, 2017

Uniquely Hilarious. LOL. The CEREAL scene is 1 of my favourite movie scenes of all time. Again, a FULL range of Real Life Characters, old, young, rich, poor, not all Beautiful People like Americans tend to overdue.

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Synopsis

Brenda Blethyn stars as Grace Trevethen, whose late husband jumped out of a plane without a parachute. Grace has been left with a manor on the Cornish Coast - and the massive, suffocating mountain of debt her husband had been secretly amassing. Now, with creditors and repossessors on her heels, Grace is faced with the prospect of losing everything. Desperate times call for desperate measures, so when Grace is asked to tend an ailing, if illicit, plant she gets an outrageous idea.

Director: Nigel Cole
Screenwriter: Craig Ferguson, Mark Crowdy, Mark Crowdy
Distributor: Fine Line Features, New Line Home Video [us]
Production Co: Homerun Productions, Sky Pictures, Wave Pictures, Rich Pickings, Portman Entertainment Group
Rating: R (Language|Drug Content)
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 1, 2000, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 1, 2009
Box Office (Gross USA): $12.1M
Runtime: 1h 34m
Sound Mix: Dolby SR, Dolby Digital, Surround
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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