Whispers of grass

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Movie
German title Whispers of grass
Original title Saving Grace
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 2000
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Nigel Cole
script Craig Ferguson
Marc Crowdy
production Mark Crowdy
music Mark Russell
camera John de Borman
cut Alan Strachan
occupation

Saving Grace is a British comedy film from the year 2000 .

action

Grace Trevethyn lives a respectable life in her community. She has a large 300 year old estate, with the Scottish Matthew Stewart her own gardener, is a respected orchid breeder and is highly regarded by everyone. Unfortunately, her husband was having an affair with London-based Honey Chambers. He left her late faithless husband nothing but high debts. He loaned his property to finance his business, but business was bad. Grace now owes £ 300,000 , with monthly interest alone being £ 2,000. The checks are bursting, the bills are piling up and their property is about to be foreclosed. Grace is desperate and ignores everything that awaits her.

Accordingly, Matthew loses his job as a gardener. He is a cheerful, slightly crazy, often smoking wage worker who lives with the fisherwoman Nicky. His big dream is to make his big money selling hemp . But his plants do better than they do well. Since he thinks Grace is the best gardener in the world, he asks her to take care of her. Grace immediately knows what it is, and Matthew explains how much the plants are worth. Since she could get them all to bloom within a few weeks and solve her money problems, she decides to grow the hemp secretly in her greenhouse with Matthew. After a while she asks Matthew if she could smoke it herself, whereupon both of them, far from their village, go to the sea and smoke weed.

After the plants bloom and Grace has around 20kg of marijuana , the only question left is how to sell it to whom. When Grace learns on the radio that two men and a woman on their family farm have been caught by the police with substance worth half a million pounds and sentenced to 15 years in prison, and she learns from Nicky that she is pregnant, she decides without Matthew going to London to sell her marijuana. After all, Nicky's baby shouldn't grow up without a father. But Matthew is upset because he has relationship problems with Nicky first because he is too childish and irresponsible for her, and he feels taken by surprise by Grace. She doesn't even know how to sell on the street without attracting attention. He is right about that. Grace absolutely cannot sell marijuana on the streets of London. Rather, after drowning her frustration over it in alcohol, she is arrested. Her late husband's ex-lover, Honey Chambers, picks her up from the police and gives her the drug dealer Vince. But since its quality is too good and the quantity too high, it is passed on to the French dealer Jacques Chevalier.

But this is both civil and dangerous and suspicious. So he lets his henchman and Vince chase Grace back to their village to find out what the hemp is all about. They can successfully follow Grace and Matthew to Grace's estate, where chaos ensues. Not only is a representative of the bank waiting for them in Quentin Rhodes, but also the fine ladies and the police are about to discover their criminal machinations. She quickly tries to destroy all the hemp with Matthew. This causes a fire and everyone present inhales the marijuana smoke, causing them to get high. Of course, nobody wants to talk about the process later. The embarrassing things are kept secret. She can solve Grace's money problems with a bestseller. She wrote the whole story and received the New Year Book Award for it. And her husband Jacques Chevalier is with her.

Reviews

AO Scott of the New York Times said the "mild complications" plot and "soft, crazy vibe" were less based on their humor than on actors like Craig Ferguson, "the funniest Scot in the world" and the "very." amusing Martin Clunes. "

For the renowned film critic Roger Ebert, "building the film is fun". Above all, he liked the village "from which one never wants to leave". However, "the end of the film falls apart in a farce that is more or less routine". The film has “a very promising idea”, but it never really comes to fruition.

The film has "all the formulaic elements, namely an isolated location, beautiful depictions, quirky characters, a marriage of humor and drama and an audience-friendly ending" to become a big hit, according to renowned film critic James Berardinelli . The humor is “gentle and harmless”, there are no really disgusting scenes, and in the absence of powerful surprises, one would “giggle rather than laugh out loud” with the film. He also appreciated the good game Blethyns, the "crazy minor characters" and the politically incorrect attitude.

The lexicon of international films said: “A charming little film about quirky villagers and imaginative fundraising. In spite of some nice ideas, he remains largely in the context of the usual English small town and unemployed comedies. "

The editorial team of epd Film said: “Apart from an ending that could compete for a prize for the 'stupidest ending' of all time, the comedy works. The humor is fed by opposites: between town and country, bourgeois milieu and underworld. "

background

The film had its world premiere on January 14, 2000 at the Sundance Film Festival . It started in theaters on May 19th in the UK and Ireland, grossing just over £ 3m. Overall, the film grossed just over $ 26 million worldwide at a production cost of $ 10 million. The film opened in Germany on August 17, 2000 and was seen by 769,599 viewers. The film has been available on DVD since May 10, 2001 and on Blu-ray Disc since January 29, 2010 .

The film was shot in London and in the two villages of Boscastle and Port Isaac in Cornwall .

With Doc Martin and Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie , two television films that were conceived as prequels turned into weed whispers. In addition, the British television series Doc Martin is based on the character Dr. Martin Bamford. The German television series Doktor Martin is based on the British one.

Soundtrack

Grass Whisper (Saving Grace)
Soundtrack by various artists

Publication
(s)

May 15, 2000

Label (s) Warner

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Rock , pop , instrumental

Title (number)

18th

production

Mark Russell

  1. "Introduction" ( Mark Russell ) - 1:02
  2. "Grace's Theme" (Mark Russell) - 2:42
  3. Take a Picture ( filter ) - 5:55
  4. "Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)" ( Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel ) - 4:07
  5. " Spirit in the Sky " ( Norman Greenbaum ) - 3:56
  6. “Will You Give Me One?” (Film dialogue) - 1:12
  7. "Sunshine at Last" (Koot) - 4:31
  8. "Grace in Notting Hill" (Mark Russell) - 2:57
  9. "Human (Tin Tin Out Mix)" (The Pretenders) - 3:52
  10. "Drugden" (Mark Russell) - 2:46
  11. "Might as Well Go Home" (Plenty) - 3:17
  12. “Would You Like Some Cornflakes?” (Film dialogue) - 0:22
  13. "Wise Up (Car Port Mix)" (AFT) - 3:12
  14. "New B323" (film dialogue) - 0:41
  15. "Cornwall Chase" (Mark Russell) - 3:01
  16. "Accidental Angel" (Sherena Dugani) - 3:57
  17. "Witchcraft" ( Robert Palmer ) - 3:17
  18. "All Things Bright and Beautiful" (Mark Russell) - 2:51

Awards

Golden Globe Awards 2001
Satellite Awards 2000
London Critics' Circle Film Award
British Academy Film Award 2000
  • Carl Foreman Award for the Most Promising Newcomer: Nomination for Mark Crowdy
British Independent Film Awards 2000
  • Nomination for Best British Independent Film
  • Best Actress: Nomination for Brenda Blethyn
  • Best Director: Nomination for Nigel Cole
  • Best Screenplay: Nomination for Craig Ferguson and Mark Crowdey
Sundance Film Festival 2000
German Prize for Synchron 2000
  • Outstanding female dubbing: Regine Albrecht as the voice of Brenda Blethyn

The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for grass whispers . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2012 (PDF; test number: 85 282-a V).
  2. ↑ AO Scott: Saving Grace Fine Line Features (2000) on nytimes.com from August 4, 2000, accessed on January 17, 2013
  3. ↑ Roger Ebert: Saving Grace on suntimes.com, August 4, 2000, accessed January 17, 2013
  4. ↑ James Berardinelli: Saving Grace on reelviews.net from 2000, accessed January 17, 2013
  5. ↑ Whispers of grass. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ↑ epd film 8/2000
  7. ↑ Grace saves Hollywood summer on bbc.co.uk, September 4, 2000, accessed January 17, 2013
  8. ^ Saving Grace (2000) at boxofficemojo.com (English), accessed January 17, 2013
  9. ↑ TOP 100 DEUTSCHLAND 2000 on insidekino.de , accessed on January 16, 2013