Saving Grace

Waking Ned Divine (1998) meets Up in Smoke (1978) in this wacky British comedy about growing marijuana. Grace Trevethan (Brenda Blethyn is a cheerful upper-class housewife and gardening enthusiast who is blithefully unaware of business matters. This all changes when she learns that her husband fell ...more

The second film from writer and star Craig Ferguson, this comedy was a modest worldwide success at the box office, joining other such recent imports as The Full Monty (1997) and Waking Ned Devine (1998) in creating a vibrant new international market for British films. Brenda Blethyn gives a typically adroit performance as the film's central character, playing the part with a requisite combination of gritty determination and blissful naïveté, opposing qualities that the actress engenders with ...more