Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Memorergi good film but with many flaws

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

blanche-2 "Greenfingers" is a film from 2000 starring Clive Owen, Helen Mirren, David Kelly, Adam Fogerty, and Natasha Little. Owen plays a prisoner who is transferred to a work program at a minimum security prison. There, he discovers his "greenfingers," i.e., a talent for making plants and flowers grow. He also makes some special friendships and falls in love.Written and directed by Joel Hershman, Greenfingers is based on the true story of talented prisoner gardeners who entered their gardens in shows in England.The cast is outstanding, with Clive Owen at his handsome and underplayed best, a wonderful characterization by David Kelly, and the fantastic Helen Mirren as a well-known gardening expert. The other prisoners such as Adam Fogerty give great support.Greenfingers is a charming film about likable people, along the lines of "Kinky Boots," "Saving Grace," and any number of other delightful British films.Highly recommended.

ianlouisiana No wonder the makers of "The Queen" chose Helen Mirren for the lead.In "Greenfingers" her characterisation of a TV gardener is surely based on H.M.,herself a keen woman of the soil.All that was missing was the ever - present bunch of spoiled snapping corgis digging up the borders.This is a movie that panders to what presumably is seen as the Americans' preferred image of us Brits as a bunch of basically good - natured buffoons living in a neverland of Cotswold stone houses,riding bicycles across streams set in lush rolling countryside.We have a few criminals - all sincerely repentant - some even innocent who are looked after by benign smiling governors and firm but fair prison officers who all live happily in a big old country house made of marzipan. P.G. Wodehouse might just have got away with this sort of stuff,but there is none of his sense of self - mockery here.We are quite solemnly told that the main character murdered his brother,but it's all right because he didn't mean too,and the old guy with cancer murdered three of his wives then gave himself up because he realised he was dangerous. Duh?If you are going to make a movie about prisoners redeeming themselves through gardening then do the job properly - don't sugar the pill by making them all icky - wicky sweethearts.Surely the whole point of the exercise is that gardening is therapeutic to nasty bastards,not Noddy and Big Ears.

brad drac I am not an overly cynical person. I do believe redemption is possible. I even like puppies. I do not, however, like being manipulated. And I certainly don't like people trying to do so as blatantly as in this film. The film has been adequately synopsised elsewhere, so I won't go into plot details, but thinking back(and it was only about an hour ago), I can't think of a single hight point of it all. There were two dimensional characters, uninspired dialogue and one of the most awe inspiringly unoriginal story I have probably ever seen(I know it's based on a true story, but I seriously doubt how it actually happened was anything like this). The cinematography was little better than a gardening magazine, and sloppy editing marred whatever measly remnants remained. Oh, and they also left one plot strand not even remotely finished(with the young lad who banged up the tea lady, did the actor quit halfway?). So basically, don't like this film much. Perhaps I am being too hard on it. Perhaps there is something to be learned in it's butt-thrusting simplicity. All I know is I really don't like this saccharine encrusted film, and that's all that I really have to go on here. Avoid this film. Go watch 101 Reykjavik. Remember what emotion is like.

cowbeech How did the director/writer land this job? It is difficult to understand how such a promising cast of leads - and a very intriguing plot - could have been mashed into such a disappointing and tedious waste of talent. I want my money back.