Greenfingers

Greenfingers
Cover of the 2002 DVD release
Directed byJoel Hershman
Written byJoel Hershman
Produced byTrudie Styler
Travis Swords
Daniel J. Victor
StarringClive Owen
Helen Mirren
David Kelly
CinematographyJohn Daly
Edited byTariq Anwar
Distributed byMGM[1]
Winchester Films[2]
Release dates
  • 10 September 2000 (2000-09-10) (TIFF)
  • 14 September 2001 (2001-09-14) (United Kingdom)
Running time
91 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£2,000,000
Box office$1,961,054[3]

Greenfingers is a 2000 British comedy film directed and written by Joel Hershman. It is loosely based on the true story about the award-winning prisoners of HMP Leyhill, a minimum-security prison in the Cotswolds, England,[4] a story published in The New York Times in 1998.[5]

  1. ^ "'Greenfingers' finds many homes". Variety. 22 February 2001. Retrieved 16 June 2023.
  2. ^ "Greenfingers (2001)". BBFC. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  3. ^ "Greenfingers". Box Office Mojo.
  4. ^ Ramsey, Nancy (22 July 2001). "Never Too Tough to Be Softened Up by a Flower". The New York Times. p. 22. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
  5. ^ Deitz, Paula (16 July 1998). "Free to Grow Bluebells in England". The New York Times. p. 13. Archived from the original on 23 June 2023. Retrieved 2 December 2023.