SAVING GRACE (2000 FILM)

'''Saving Grace''' is a 2000 British comedy film directed by Nigel Cole and starring Brenda Blethyn, Craig Ferguson, and Martin Clunes.
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. Grace and her gardener's efforts to hide their illegal enterprise from the quaint and curious townsfolk and market their product comprise the remainder of the film.
The movie's tagline was "Grace's doctor is worried about the state of her joints." It was filmed in London and the villages of Boscastle and Port Isaac in Cornwall.

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Awards

★ 2000 Sundance Film Festival (Audience Award - Nigel Cole)

★ 2000 Norwegian International Film Festival (Audience Award - Nigel Cole)

★ 2000 Munich Film Festival (High Hopes Award - Mark Crowdy)
Brenda Blethyn was nominated for a Golden Globe as Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical.

Trivia

★ Some of the marijuana plants used in the film were real. The British government granted permission for the use of them in the film (150 plants) under supervision and guarding.

★ The character of Dr. Martin Bamford was spun-off into a pair of "prequel" films focusing on how he ended up in Cornwall, and later reworked into the television series ''Doc Martin'', which states in its ending credits that the character was derived from the film ''Saving Grace''. Several of the actors who play the townsfolk (but not Ferguson or Blethyn) return in the same roles in the two Doc Martin movies.

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★ Official website