Grow Your Own (DVD)

Description: Genre: Comedy / Theatrical Release: 2007 / Parental Guidance / Director: Richard Laxton / Actors: Olivia Colman, Omid ... more

Grow Your Own (DVD) ... Djalili, Philip Jackson, Benedict Wong, Eddie Marsan ... / DVD released 2007-10-15 at Pathe Distribution / Features of the DVD: PAL

Newest Review: ... He is unable to communicate and it is not down to languages as his daughter tells us that he can speak French, English and ... more

... some Russian. They are allocated an allotment as part of his treatment along with a Nigerian family and an Iranian family. Whilst the comedy is there in the form of the grumpy old men there is a definite undercurrent of racism particularly from John the ex policeman allotment chairman and the female mobile phone executive who is just a complete bitch. It is not viscious racism, but a more patronising lack of wanting to understand outsiders or allow them in. John is also bullying towards his shy son and humiliates...more

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Grow Your Own [DVD] [2007]
Release Date: 2007 - 10 - 15, Rating Parental Guidance,

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Grow Your Own (DVD): Allotment growing with racial tension and Marrow envy all th ... (693 words)
by - written on 14/08/09 (Very useful, 56 readings)
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I watched this film tonight. I was expecting a comedy farce and was very suprised, very pleasantly suprised. It is listed as comedy, but is more comedy drama. It is bitter sweet. The basic plot is a typical english allotment in Liverpool where some of the plots are given away to asylum seekers and troubled refugees, particularly a deeply depressed Chinese man Kung Sang and his two children. At first everyone is up in arms, but gradually they warm to the newcomers and find comon ground. The subplot of the placement of a mobile phone mast on one of the allotments also helps to draw them together. It started well with the typical grumpy old men ... Read the complete review

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by - written on 17/03/09 (Very useful, 16 readings)
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Directed by: Richard Laxton Written by: Frank Cottrell Boyce & Carl Hunter Genre: Comedy Country: UK Certification: 15+ Language: English Released: 15th October, 2007 (DVD) MAIN CAST: Benedict Wong (Kung Sang) Eddie Marsan (Little John) Philip Jackson (Big John) Omid Djalili (Ali ) Diveen Henry (Miriam) John Henshaw (Charlie) Roland Manookian (Mike) Kung Sang is a troubled man. Having fled from China with his wife and children after his land was seized by a large corporation, they were, like so many others before them, smuggled into England in a large shipping container. ... Read the complete review

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