An English community gets testy when a refuge family is granted a plot of land on which to grow vegetables.An English community gets testy when a refuge family is granted a plot of land on which to grow vegetables.An English community gets testy when a refuge family is granted a plot of land on which to grow vegetables.
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Wow! A genuinely funny and moving film that lingered in my head for days. Probably the most unsexy list of ingredients to make a movie from - gardening, immigration, telephone masts - but it links all these plots with an amazing cast of characters who it is impossible not to care for. It's a bit like Little Miss Sunshine - why should a road movie about a dysfunctional family on their way to a beauty pageant work? - because you care about every single one of them and the same thing happens here. Rather than laying the politics of immigration on with a trowel the writing and directing insinuate it throughout the stories. A great piece of British Indie Cinema - It left me with that feeling you get after an impromptu warm summer evening sitting outside the pub.
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- SoundtracksDeck the Halls
Traditional
Performed by Ian McKenzie
Arranged by Simon Whiteside
lyrics by Thomas Oliphant (uncredited)
Published by BDI Music / BBC Worldwide Ltd
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- Also known as
- The Allotment
- Filming locations
- Caryl Street, Toxteth, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK(allotment scenes)
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Box office
- Gross worldwide
- $498,278
- Runtime1 hour 41 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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