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Saving Grace
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Title: Saving Grace

Release Date: 24 Jan 2000

Runtime: 1h 33m

Genre: Crime, Comedy

Director: Fine Line Features, Homerun Productions, Portman Entertainment Group, Rich Pickings, Sky Pictures, Wave Pictures

Production Companies: Fine Line Features, Homerun Productions, Portman Entertainment Group, Rich Pickings, Sky Pictures, Wave Pictures

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.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 6.5 (414 votes)

Cast

  • Grace Trevethyn: Brenda Blethyn
  • Matthew Steward: Craig Ferguson
  • Dr. Martin Bamford: Martin Clunes
  • Jacques Chevalier: Tchéky Karyo
  • China MacFarlane: Jamie Foreman
  • Vince: Bill Bailey
  • Nicky: Valerie Edmond
  • Harvey: Tristan Sturrock
  • Vicar Gerald Perey: Leslie Phillips
  • Honey: Diana Quick
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