Greenfingers

Sweet, predictable and thoroughly life-affirming, this fact-based tale of redemption through cultivating flowers is a precious trifle that gets some snap, crackle and pop from Helen Mirren's gleefully imperious turn as gardening expert Georgina Woodhouse. Nearing the end of his sentence, longtime prison inmate Colin Briggs (Clive Owen) is transferred to Edgefield, a minimum-security facility in the Cotswalds whose warden, Hodge (Warren Clarke), believes that a taste of freedom helps prepare inmates for life on the outside. Briggs is assigned to share a room with a chipper old man, Fergus Wilks (David Kelly), whose geriatric charms are lost on the sullen Briggs. Still...