Unexpectedly widowed, prim and proper housewife Grace Trevethyn finds herself in dire financial straits when she inherits massive debts her late husband had been accruing for years. Faced with losing her house, she decides to use her talent for horticulture and hatches a plan to grow potent marijuana which can be sold at an astronomical price, thus solving her financial crisis.
Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award4 wins & 9 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Crowd-pleasing enough to provide a pleasant buzz.
– Robert Philpot,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
Beautifully shot on location with sure comic timing by director Nigel Coles, Saving Grace is a real high in a season filled with unfunny comedies.
– Lou Lumenick,
New York Post,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
Ultimately, all the jokes exploit the same tired premise, which is the spectacle of variously dotty and stuffy Englishmen and women getting stoned, wittingly and not.
– A.O. Scott,
New York Times,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
Blethyn's solid-gold charm turns Saving Grace into a comic high.
– Peter Travers,
Rolling Stone,
10 May 2001
rotten:
Saving Grace has a lovely Cornish setting and Blethyn to recommend it, but mostly it's a contact mediocre.