Product: Greenfingers [Region 2] (2002)
Rating: 5.0
Funny and emotionally touching
This is one of those movies that audiences like and critics don't. Despite lukewarm critical reviews, a large crowd was at the screening, and we all seemed to enjoy it.Greenfingers is funny, moving, and very well acted. Clive Owen gives a magnetic performance as a prisoner who becomes fascinated by gardening, and Hellen Mirren is great as the overbearing English grand dame of gardening. The jokes are wonderful, and the story of people trying to turn their lives around against difficult odds is quite touching.Those who equate sophistication with violence or cynicism will dislike Greenfingers, but if you liked the Full Monty and Billy Elliott, you'll probably enjoy this charming British film too.R-rated films come in many degrees of violence, profanity, sexual explicitness, and so on. This is one of the milder R films I have seen.