Picks and Pans Review: Grace Comes Out of the Same Anglo-Irish Mold as the Full Monty and Waking Ned Devine, Amiable Comedies in Which Otherwise Ordinary Folk Go a Wee Bit Dotty in the Pursuit of Money. What Gives Grace a Special Grace, Though, Is the Aff

By Leah Rozen

UPDATED 08/21/2000 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 08/21/2000 at 01:00 AM EDT

ing, ruefully honest performance by Blethyn (Secrets & Lies) as a woman who grows right alongside her illegal crop. Ferguson, who cowrote the script, is a bumbling delight. (R)

Bottom Line: This widow's weed proves comically potent