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Released
2000 · FILM

Saving Grace

Widowed housewife Grace must turn her garden into a covert cannabis operation to pay off her late husband's debts and keep her home from foreclosure.

Directed by
Runtime
93 min
ComedyCrime

Synopsis

After unexpectedly becoming a widow, Grace Trevethyn, a prim and proper housewife, faces severe financial difficulties due to the large debts her late husband had accumulated over the years. Fearing the loss of her home, she decides to leverage her horticultural skills by cultivating potent marijuana, hoping to sell it at a high price and resolve her financial crisis.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Alan StrachanShot by John De BormanScored by Mark RussellDesigned by Eve Stewart

Box Office

2000 · Box office

Made its money back — grossed 2.6× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$26.3M

Budget$10.0M
Worldwide gross$26.3M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $12.2M 46% of worldwide · International: $14.2M (54%)

Opening weekend: $287K 2% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $430K4% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 30 theaters

Also known as

  • Grasgeflüsterde
  • L'erba di Graceit

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