A meticulous horticulturist is devoted to tending the grounds of a beautiful estate and pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowager.A meticulous horticulturist is devoted to tending the grounds of a beautiful estate and pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowager.A meticulous horticulturist is devoted to tending the grounds of a beautiful estate and pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowager.
- Awards
- 1 win & 6 nominations
Christian Vaughn
- John
- (as Christian Freeman)
Emily Russell
- Waitress
- (as Emily C. Russell)
Monica R. Harris
- Female Host
- (as Monica Harris)
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- Writer
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Storyline
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- TriviaIn a 2022 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Paul Schrader spoke about how the style of the film serves to create an atmosphere of unease and unfamiliarity: "Well, there is a coldness; there's a withheld-ness - in the performance, in the production design. There's not much furniture around, and what's with those jellyfish on the wallpaper? So there's a kind of distance, which is intentional. And that little room he lives in, which makes no sense. So, yes, you're using those stylistic elements to make the viewer feel that there is a gap between what you want to feel and what you do feel. And that's a calculated gap that you create stylistically - sometimes by use of the camera, more often by not using the camera, by not giving certain things. It creates a sense of unease, that makes you feel, 'this could be a story I know very well, but somehow I'm looking at it and I don't think I know it very well at all.'
- GoofsAround the 41 minute mark, where Maya was injured and asking to go back to work, she was seen closing her book, but when the cameras pans to Narvel and Isobel by the door of the workshed, Maya's book was opened.
- Quotes
Narvel Roth: Gardening is a belief in the future. A belief that things will happen according to plan.
Featured review
Measured and pleasing
Thank god for intelligent film making. This story of second chances and redemption is not without its problems but overall is time well spent if you actually want to watch a story unfold. The basic plot of bad man atoning for a past life through enabling others is a well worn furrow which usually ends in an orgy of violence or a tragic sacrifice but not so here. In Edgertons measured and nuanced performance we have a far better and more realistic journey as he demonstrates once again how underrated he is as an actor. Sigourney Weaver demonstrates just how damm good she is and relative newcomer Swindell holds her own. If I were to critise it would be the continuity and editing, at times I was left thinking that a scene was missing and some of the linkage plain didn't work, thankfully the overall arc of the story and the performances kept me interested enough to let the flaws slide. Give it a watch.
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- northernpaladin
- Sep 10, 2023
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $667,114
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $264,866
- May 21, 2023
- Gross worldwide
- $1,506,008
- Runtime1 hour 51 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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