This is How Movies Should Be Made

Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

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.

I am a librarian, and one of my jobs is to shelve and organize our videos. I had seen this movie go out occasionally, and wondered what it was like. I was pleasantly surprised, and LOVED IT!!! All of the characters are great, especially the big, hulking yet gentle prisoner who comes to like gardening. David Kelly as Fergus Wilks was a funny, sweet and upbeat man who surprised me as to why he was in prison. I cheered on the romance between Clive Owen & "Primrose". Helen Mirren was a fantastic Martha Stewart of gardening, and a loving yet clingy mom. I loved it, and have recommended it to many people as a must see! Julie A. Roberts (:-)

Once again , the writer has taken a wonderful real life story and ruined it with foul language and nudity ! When will the writers realize that sex and obscenities are not what EVERYONE wants ! It was a shame that I had to shut it off and send my children to another room. After I watched it , I realized that my kids could have learned a valuable life lesson, about second chances, had they been allowed to sit through it. Too bad..A lot of that crap was stuff I really didn't need to hear or see either. On the other hand it was a sweet movie. Funny and charming. Georgina Woodhouse was superb ! Everything you would expect a snooty gardener to be. Again...Great movie... Poor language !

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.