Greenfingers - tough guys and tender drives

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Movie
German title Greenfingers - tough guys and tender drives
Original title Greenfingers
Country of production GB , USA
original language English
Publishing year 2000
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Joel Hershman
script Joel Hershman
production Trudie Styler
Travis Swords
Daniel J. Victor
music Guy Dagul
camera John Daly
cut Tariq Anwar
Justin Krish
occupation

Greenfingers - Harte Jungs and tender shoots (Green Thumb) is a British - American comedy film from the year 2000 . Directed by Joel Hershman , who also wrote the script.

action

Inmate Colin Briggs is being held in an open prison in a British prison. There he met old Fergus, whom he initially rejected abruptly. However, when he learns that Fergus is seriously ill, he takes care of him. Fergus manages to get Briggs interested in gardening - his secret passion. Together with some of their fellow inmates, they begin to set up a prison garden. Colin turns out to be a real natural with a green thumb. The headmaster's wife manages to draw the attention of the famous botanist Georgina Woodhouse to these activities, which allow inmates to work for her outside of prison.

Briggs meets Georgina's daughter Primrose Woodhouse, with whom he falls in love. Woodhouse is so enthusiastic about the abilities of the inmates that she signs them up for the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show , the largest annual garden show in England. They then come under suspicion of having resold information about valuable items in the customer's house because the customer was stolen. From now on they are only allowed to work inside the prison, and participation in Hampton Court is no longer possible.

After some time, Briggs was released on parole and began a relationship with Woodhouse's daughter Primrose (in German: Primrose). As an ex-prisoner, despite his great talent, he did not get a job and he heard that the remaining prisoners were not getting on with their gardening activities, he decided to return to jail. He commits a minor offense, ends his relationship with Primrose and allows himself to be arrested.

Back in prison, the prisoners continue their gardening activities with a full crew again. One day, while visiting two ministers, they are given another opportunity to take part in this year's Hampton Court exhibition. At the request of one of the ministers, they should present a rock garden there, which they do not like at all. Fergus dies shortly before completion, and then apparent mistakes made by some of the prisoners involved (dried out plants, a sudden mouse plague) mean that the project is seriously endangered. Finally, the garden goes up in flames.

The Hampton Court Show opens. The prisoners hastily created a new garden: a wild garden with a junk car and a figure in it that represents the deceased Fergus. Contrary to expectations, they don't win a prize. Colin meets Primrose there, and with the help of her mother, the two get closer again. Colin asks Primrose to wait for him until he will be released again next spring, which of course she promises. Thereupon they receive the message that the Queen personally wishes to speak to the gardening inmates, as she was very impressed by her garden.

backgrounds

The action was the article Free to Grow Bluebells in England by Paula Deitz in the New York Times inspired by 1998.

The following note appears in the credits: The prison gardeners later won silver and gold medals at the Chelsea and Hampton Court Palace Flower Shows. After all, they were even given the highest honor. The Tudor rose .

The production amounted to an estimated 5 million pounds sterling . The film had its world premiere on September 10, 2000 at the Toronto International Film Festival . It had its US premiere on July 13, 2001, the British cinema premiere followed on September 14, 2001 and the German premiere on February 14, 2002. The film grossed around 1.4 million US dollars in cinemas in the USA .

In a supporting role as president of the Royal Horticultural Society 's Trevor Bowen to see.

Reviews

English language reviews

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on August 3, 2001 that the film was amusing enough to pass the time, but that it was one of those films you'd expect to see on cable television. The plot is " populated with standardized characters ".

Kevin Thomas wrote in the Los Angeles Times on July 27th. 2001, the film failed despite the talented actors (" Despite cast of talented actors," Greenfingers "is all thumbs ").

Rotten Tomatoes wrote that the film follows the well-being formula in which socially disadvantaged people defeat privileged people and does not add anything new to the “ saturated ” genre (“ Greenfingers follows the British feel-good formula of underdogs somehow beating the odds, adding nothing new to this already saturated genre ").

German-language reviews

The lexicon of the international film judges: "Light comedy based on a true story, staged solidly in the manner of the common" Britcoms "; entertaining, but all too harmless."

The magazine prisma rates the film in its online film database with one of five possible stars and says: "Without the esprit of similar films from Great Britain, director Joel Hershman tells a good social comedy that seems more like a modern fairy tale. The whole thing is unfortunately hardly angular and can therefore not really entertain unless you like smooth stories. "

Awards

The film was nominated in 2001 for the Political Film Society Award for Human Rights and the Political Film Society Award for Exposé .

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Approval certificate for Greenfingers - tough guys and tender instincts . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2007 (PDF; test number: 89 698 DVD).
  2. ↑ a b Film review by Kevin Thomas, accessed October 18, 2007
  3. ↑ Comment on www.moviepilot.de
  4. ↑ Box office / business for Greenfingers, accessed October 18, 2007
  5. ↑ Greenfingers premiere dates, accessed October 18, 2007
  6. ^ Film review by Roger Ebert, accessed on October 18, 2007
  7. ↑ rottentomatoes.com, text in the "tomatometer box" top right; first accessed on October 18, 2007
  8. ↑ Greenfingers - Tough guys and tender instincts in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used , accessed on October 18, 2007
  9. ↑ prisma, accessed October 18, 2007