{"id":315,"date":"2008-01-02T17:54:26","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T00:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=315"},"modified":"2008-01-02T18:28:57","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T01:28:57","slug":"garden-movies-saving-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=315","title":{"rendered":"Garden movies:  Saving Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img ALIGN=\"right\" ALT=\"still from saving grace\" SRC=\"images\/savinggrace.jpg\" \/>Constance Casey has an interesting gardening column over at Slate, <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2180152\/\">Gilding the Lily<br \/>\nWhat movies get wrong (and right) about gardening<\/a>, where she points to several instances where directors commit gardening fraud.<\/p>\n<p>I can relate.  At a tender age, I pointed out the wires in Peter Pan.  And as I grow old, I notice the flowers that shouldn&#8217;t be blooming together in the movies.<\/p>\n<p>The garden-themed movie that I most enjoyed was <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0195234\/\">Saving Grace<\/a> (2000).  The synopsis:  A small-town English widow, facing financial troubles after her husband&#8217;s suicide, turns to agriculture of an illegal kind.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the longish (10-minute) video of excerpts below, and you&#8217;ll see that they&#8217;ve got most of the horticulture right, though the mature plant in question is not like any of that genus and species I&#8217;ve ever seen.  (At least the wild ditchweed patches I saw on farms out in the Midwest back in the day.)<\/p>\n<p>Plus it&#8217;s just a delightful movie, winning the Sundance Festival Audience Award in 2000.  <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.cbs.com\/latenight\/latelate\/\">Craig Ferguson<\/a> (who returns to the airwaves tonight with his writers) wrote the screenplay, co-produced the film and co-stars in it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Video warning:<\/strong>  Pot culture and effing Scottish language.<\/p>\n<p><object HEIGHT=\"355\" WIDTH=\"425\"><param VALUE=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/AmteWgdqV4k&amp;rel=1\" NAME=\"movie\"><\/param><param VALUE=\"transparent\" NAME=\"wmode\"><\/param><embed HEIGHT=\"355\" WIDTH=\"425\" wmode=\"transparent\" TYPE=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" SRC=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/AmteWgdqV4k&amp;rel=1\"><\/embed><\/object>Have any favorite garden movies?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Constance Casey has an interesting gardening column over at Slate, Gilding the Lily What movies get wrong (and right) about gardening, where she points to several instances where directors commit gardening fraud. I can relate. At a tender age, I pointed out the wires in Peter Pan. And as I grow old, I notice the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=315\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Garden movies:  Saving Grace&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}