Saving Grace - DVD

When her husband jumped out of a plane without a parachute, Grace Trevethen knew life would get tough...but she had no idea just how tough. Left with a manor on the Cornish coast, a mountain of debt and dozens of creditors on her heels, she is about to lose everything. But with Matthew, the manor's caretaker, Grace hatches an outrageous idea: Why not use her renowned green thumb to plant a cash crop and pay off her debts? Soon her green

Director Robert M. Young (Alambrista!, Caught, Dominick and Eugene) skillfully brings Celia Gittleson's novel to life in Saving Grace, a touching drama celebrated for it's poignancy and comedic subtlety. Tom Conti (Oppenheimer, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Reuben, Reuben) stars as the newly elected Pope Leo XIV, a down-to-earth man torn between the bureaucratic duties of his position and his longing to reconnect with real people one-on-one. When Leo accidentally locks himself out of the Vatican, he seizes the opportunity to flee for the Italian countryside, but trouble is not far behind. Edward James Olmos (Stand and Deliver, TV's Battlestar Galactica, Blade Runner), Giancarlo Giannini (Quantum of Solace, Man on Fire, Love & Anarchy), Fernando Rey (The French Connection, Tristina, Viridiana), and Erland Josephson (The Sacrifice, Fanny and Alexander, Cries & Whispers) round out the supporting cast.

Moms Mabley, billed as 'The Funniest Woman in the World,' and one of the most successful as 'Amazing Grace.' Moms Mabley is Grace Teasdale Grimes, a Baltimore, Maryland widow who discovers that the local mayoral election is a front for pilfering funds from her neighborhood by the incumbent mayor and his cronies. Stirred to Butterfly McQueen ('Prissy' in GONE WITH THE WIND), Slappy White (TV's SANFORD AND SON) and Stepin Fetchit (Dimples, BEND OF THE RIVER).