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Saving Grace
MEANRANK
69/100
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 62, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 83.
See the most agreed on films →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.
Details
- Director
- Nigel Cole
- Writers
- Craig Ferguson, Mark Crowdy
- Based on
- a work by Mark Crowdy
- Released
- 24 January 2000
- Country
- France, United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $10.0M
- Box office
- $26.3M
- Awards
- 3 wins, 9 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 12 →1 major award won · 3 wins from 12 nominations across 9 ceremonies
| Sundance Film Festival 2000 | World Cinema Audience Award | Nigel Cole | Winner |
| Golden Globe Award 2000 | Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy | Brenda Blethyn | Nominee |
| ALFS Awards 2000 | Actress of the Year | Brenda Blethyn | Nominee |
| British Academy Film Awards 2000 | Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer | Mark Crowdy | Nominee |
| British Independent Film Awards 2000 | Best Actress | Brenda Blethyn | Nominee |
| British Independent Film Awards 2000 | Best Screenplay | Mark Crowdy, Craig Ferguson | Nominee |
| British Independent Film Awards 2000 | Best Director | Nigel Cole | Nominee |
| British Independent Film Awards 2000 | Best Film | Nigel Cole | Nominee |
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12 awards — Saving Grace
×| World Cinema Audience Award | Nigel Cole | Winner |
| Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy | Brenda Blethyn | Nominee |
| High Hopes Award | Mark Crowdy | Winner |
| Audience Award | Nigel Cole | Winner |
| Best Actress | Brenda Blethyn | Nominee |
| Best Director | Nigel Cole | Nominee |
| Best Film | Nigel Cole | Nominee |
| Best Screenplay | Mark Crowdy, Craig Ferguson | Nominee |
| Actress of the Year | Brenda Blethyn | Nominee |
| Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer | Mark Crowdy | Nominee |
| Best British Actress | Brenda Blethyn | Nominee |
| Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy | Brenda Blethyn | Nominee |