Rotten
Saving Grace has a lovely Cornish setting and Blethyn to recommend it, but mostly it's a contact mediocre.
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
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Saving Grace
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Nigel Cole Director
- Brenda Blethyn as Grace Trevethyn
- Craig Ferguson as Matthew Steward
- Martin Clunes as Dr. Martin Bamford
- Tchéky Karyo as Jacques Chevalier
- Jamie Foreman as China MacFarlane
- Bill Bailey as Vince
- Valerie Edmond as Nicky
- Tristan Sturrock as Harvey
- Leslie Phillips as Vicar Gerald Perey
- Diana Quick as Honey
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
64%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Blethyn's solid-gold charm turns Saving Grace into a comic high.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
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
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
Fresh
Crowd-pleasing enough to provide a pleasant buzz.
Robert Philpot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
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