It's a nice little film, funny; it's little more than a fairytale, you know, one of those stories where all goes well, everybody's good and everything ends well = totally unrealistic, but nice to watch. Not all films need to be realistic, right? I mean, we have Grace (Brenda Blethyn) a widow left full of debts who therefore risks losing everything, including her house, who starts cultivating marijuana , and in big quantities! Everyone in her village knows what she's doing, but they all cover for her; her gardener Matthew helps her but his girlfriend is pregnant and she's afraid he'll go to prison, so Grace goes alone to London, stopping people in the street and offering them marijuana. Yep.
Her husband's lover helps her when she's taken in by the police (because she was in a pub with a bad reputation or something) and she puts her in contact with her own pusher (Bill Bailey), only he deals in small quantities, and she has kilos of the stuff, so they go to a bigger pusher (Tchéky Karyo). Then we arrive at the end. Matthew wants out because he doesn't want to lose Nicky, and Grace comes to her senses and decides it's better to get rid of it all.
Even the local policeman knew about it but said nothing. What place is this, where neighbors are so kind to each other? Anyway, there are two women who uses these leaves to make tea and lots of people make laughing by the big smoke coming out of the marijuana's big pile burning. There's the big boss who comes and marries Grace, and we're told she had a great success writing a book about it all. Happy ending for all. Sure, I thought writing a book took time, and it's not clear how she got that time, it seemed like she didn't have any, but this is a little, funny fairytale, nothing more, so who cares.
I loved the village, and I loved the scene where all the villagers were out in the night with chairs, sunglasses and probably drinks, to wait for the moment she turned the lights on, that was the funniest thing.
Martin Clunes plays the local doctor who enjoys his marijuana :-p
In Italy: L'erba di Grace
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