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Saving Grace coins it in the States


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The surprise success of the summer in the States this year is a British low-budget movie that looks set to make more of a profit than big budget films. Saving Grace, starring Brenda Blethyn and Craig Ferguson has become the kind of success most British filmmakers can only dream of. Although reviews have been mixed - the Dallas Morning called Saving Grace a 'Full Monty-type sleeper,' while TNT's Rough Cut dismissed it as 'toxically saccharine' - the public have voted with their purses. Despite launching in just 30 cinemas, Saving Grace built on word-of-mouth to an astonishing

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