Nice little low budget British film about an allotment society near Liverpool being put out when a couple of refugee families are allocated plots to help them recover from their experiences. LOTS of our current crop of character actors doing their thing with effortless ease and a nice plotline. There's angst and romance and some kids that don't make you want to reach for a hatchet.
It's not a BIG film in any way. I don't suppose it cost much to make either. I very much doubt that it would do well across the pond. Some of it is pretty twee and rather cosy, but it made me feel good and that's pretty rare with stuff that's on TV these days.
On the whole I'd recommend it just for the discussion about Bob the Builder.
Nice little low budget British film about an allotment society near Liverpool being put out when a couple of refugee families are allocated plots to help them recover from their experiences. LOTS of our current crop of character actors doing their thing with effortless ease and a nice plotline. There's angst and romance and some kids that don't make you want to reach for a hatchet.
I think you'd enjoy it because I think you'd get the silly bits that look funny but aren't and the bits that look serious but aren't. And there are some bits that make your throat ache too.
No it's a little low budget British comedy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqPLDXmBmjg&feature=related). Great fun. I can't imagine any of the US stations showing it, though, more's the pity.
I caught it just after it started and wasn't it great?! I watched to the end, entranced, praying there wouldn't be some hollywood-disaster- type ending :). Fabulous cast, and all the unique, poignant, eccentric, witty, brittle, loving characterisation that is so BRIT in our movies LOL.
I saw the first couple of the Grow your own Drugs series... personally I found that you'd need a heck of a lot of time, money and plants to actually get much out of it.
That and putting conkers in a food processor to make some sort of skin cream just made me yell 'aren't those poisonous?!' at the screen.
I mean, if it works, great, but wash that food processor well after...
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Date: 2010-06-12 01:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-12 12:52 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-12 01:20 pm (UTC)Nice little low budget British film about an allotment society near Liverpool being put out when a couple of refugee families are allocated plots to help them recover from their experiences. LOTS of our current crop of character actors doing their thing with effortless ease and a nice plotline. There's angst and romance and some kids that don't make you want to reach for a hatchet.
It's not a BIG film in any way. I don't suppose it cost much to make either. I very much doubt that it would do well across the pond. Some of it is pretty twee and rather cosy, but it made me feel good and that's pretty rare with stuff that's on TV these days.
On the whole I'd recommend it just for the discussion about Bob the Builder.
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Date: 2010-06-12 05:04 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-12 01:30 pm (UTC)Nice little low budget British film about an allotment society near Liverpool being put out when a couple of refugee families are allocated plots to help them recover from their experiences. LOTS of our current crop of character actors doing their thing with effortless ease and a nice plotline. There's angst and romance and some kids that don't make you want to reach for a hatchet.
I think you'd enjoy it because I think you'd get the silly bits that look funny but aren't and the bits that look serious but aren't. And there are some bits that make your throat ache too.
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Date: 2010-06-12 05:22 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-12 01:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-12 09:24 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-12 01:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-12 12:18 pm (UTC)That and putting conkers in a food processor to make some sort of skin cream just made me yell 'aren't those poisonous?!' at the screen.
I mean, if it works, great, but wash that food processor well after...
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Date: 2010-06-12 01:39 pm (UTC)Such good fun.