Average comedy-drama that's not as moving or as funny as it thinks it is, but remains watchable thanks to strong performances and likeable characters.
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06/19/07
Grow Your Own (2007)
57 %
Reviews Counted: 14 Fresh: 8 Rotten:6 Average Rating: 5/10
Rated: PG
Theatrical Release: 15-06-2007
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Affectionate and heartwarming it will seem to those who enjoy this sort of thing; painfully slow and dramatically inert might be the criticism of doubters.
06/15/07
Director Nimrod Attal manages the setting-up of this situation with some skill, but it's never developed. Nor are any of the characters.
06/15/07
Grow Your Own has about as much edge as a prize melon, but even if the land’s been well filled, there’s still plenty of fertile soil here. Occasionally melancholy, often funny, this is touching, lyrical home-grown fare.
06/15/07
One could wish that this parable of difference and tolerance gladdened the heart, but its effortful comedy has quite the opposite effect. It's just weedy.
06/15/07
This film is more Ground Force than ground-breaking. Watch it on DVD with a nice cup of tea.
06/15/07
With its chirpy score, lovable characters and Festival Of Britain flavour, Grow Your Own would have bedded in nicely as a TV movie. On the big screen, it starts to wilt.
06/15/07
It's a shame for John Pilger that The War on Democracy, his documentary about how Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez is a symbol of the growth of people power in Latin America, is being released at a time when Chávez has shut down TV companies that oppose him.
06/15/07
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Well-intentioned, and well-cast, this British movie is nonetheless desperately underpowered.
06/15/07
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The movie seems at times so impressed by its own allegory that it lessens the human drama running beneath it.
06/15/07
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Hence, while it works as an antidote to the gritty realism of recent British films, Grow Your Own's twee optimism is sometimes a little too much to digest.
06/15/07
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Director Richard Laxton offers nothing to convince that we shouldn’t be watching this one-off drama on the box on a Sunday night with one eye closed. More meat and less veg please
06/14/07
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