Saving Grace
Cast
Brenda Blethyn as Grace Trevethyn
Craig Ferguson as Matthew Stewart, Grace's Gardener
Martin Clunes as Dr. Martin Bamford
Tch�ky Karyo as Jacques Chevalier, French Businessman/Drug Dealer
Jamie Foreman as China MacFarlane, Chevalier's henchman
Directed by
Nigel Cole
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Saving Grace stars actor Craig Ferguson from TV's The Drew Carey Show, one of my favorite shows. Unfourtanetly, the show's funnier.
Brenda Blethyn plays Grace Trevethyn, a recent widow whose husband
jumped out of a plane without a parachute. As one of the old fogies
says, "Maybe he went to the bathroom and used the wrong door." One-
liners don't really dominate the film, but sometimes they provoke
laughter. Anyway, Grace's fellow neighbors do her favors for free,
because she's the last to know the humongous amount of debt for her
to pay. So she needs to get money fast to save her house.
Her gardener, Matthew (Ferguson), comes up with a plan to get her
money. Raise marijuana and sell it. But how will they get it?
Matthew's private stash, of course, and then they'll get more from
it. Soon the two of them are in over their head, and they expect you
to be ROLLING with laughter.
Blethyn and Ferguson bring a great amount of charm and great acting,
but every worker in the film expects your JOINTS to be sore from
laughing. Unlike such comedies as The Whole Nine Yards, where it
seems the actors don't know they're doing a comedy, this tries too
hard to make us laugh and make us feel like "yes, we are doing a
comedy, chuckle people". Don't mistake me for not liking this film,
it's a fine piece but without any real laughs. And the comedy is
uneven. Some of it was HIGH brow comedy, while others were the
effects of being STONED.
The runtime, at around 95 minutes, seemed to go by in about an hour,
good for a light, airy comedy like this. On the other hand, the
ending seemed too unrealistic, not attainable at all. It wasn't so
much as too many pratfalls to achieve such an ending (like
Barbershop), but just unlikely.
Charm and a light feel makes this worth a little watch if that's what
you want, but if you really want a comedy, don't come a-knockin' at
this door.
Rated R for drugs and language.
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