Greenfingers 2000

    Colin Briggs is a prison inmate and he has just been placed in a new program.  The inmates are working on and designing a new garden on the property.  There is a lot of freedom for the inmates and a different experience for them.  Colin learns he’s really a gardening guru and he works with four other inmates.  They become so good as gardeners that they are invited to create a garden for a national gardening competition in the UK.

     This film could be a Hallmark movie but it’s not!!  It is following a pattern with down and out men, getting a second chance and also meeting people who think they don’t deserve this chance.  There will be a setback and their entire program could be in jeopardy.  There will be people who don’t judge them fairly and it's because of their backgrounds.  I still thought this was different, interesting and good.  3 ½* ( I liked this movie) 

91 min, Drama directed by Joel Hershman with Clive Owen, Helen Mirren, David Kelly, Warren Clarke, Danny Dyer, Adam Fogerty, Paterson Joseph, Natasha Little, Peter Guinness, Lucy Punch, Sally Edwards, Donald Douglas, Kevin McMonagle, Julie Saunders.

Note:  Imdb 6.9 out of 10, 46% critic 67% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 2*, BBC 3* out of 5*, Empire Online 3* out of 5*, Metacritic 46 out of 100 with 25 critics 8.1 out of 10 with 10 reviews, Movie Guide language moderate, violence light, sex moderate, nudity moderate.

Special Note:  This film is based on inmates of Her Majesty’s Prison Leyhill and it is located in Cotswold.  Filming was done at the world-renowned music school, the Yhundi Menuhin School.  Some scenes were also filmed at Queen Elizabeth’s Training College, Leatherhead.  The hospital room shown in the film was really the TV room for students.