Allotment film

[lizzie]

Evening all

I've just seen this little snippet in tonights late edition of the Liverpool Echo:

"A new £2.5m film by award-winning Liverpool writer Frank Cottrell-Boyce is being filmed in the city. Grow Your Own is described as being about multi-ethnic tensions and friendships set against working class territorialism on an allotment in Merseyside"

What do you lot think? Worth going to the pictures for or do you think it will be just another stereotypical piece about allotments and Scousers?

[Chantal]

I think I'll wait until it's on Sky.

[Jenny Green]

Sounds like a kind of The Good Life - the dark side.
Also sounds pretty unrealistic - most of the allotmenteers/gardeners I know get on incredibly well. In fact, I often wish I worked with gardeners!

[Mr Potato Head]

You're joking aren't you? The number of times I've been physically worried about JB or Allan's safety...

Only joking, though I would be more concerned about sprout wine than working class terratorialism...

Oh, and I don't think much of the title.

[Jenny Green]

I did say most.

[Johnboy]

Hi Mr P.H.,
Fortunately there is a 25 miles gap twixt Allan and Myself so don't work yourself up into a lather!
We have been likened to the two old men in the Muppets Show which I am not sure which way to take it. The film sounds like a load of crap to me and probably have me nodding off.

[The Grock in the Frock]

oh J.B dont be such a muppet

[Tigger]

"It's time to put on music. It's time to put on a show. It's time to ...............etc.......

[lizzie]

It's time to get things started
On the Muppet Show tonight

Bumbumbumbum

[Chantal]

Of course, Staedtler & Waldorf! I loved those characters and in fact had a pair of cockatiels named after them some years ago.

[Carrie]

That title sounds like the biggest case of product placement since John Travolta discussed burgers in that Tarantino film!
The subject matter doesn't sound any less likely to me than male strippers in Sheffield, or that brass band one with Ewan McGregor.
Suggest KG gets in with some product placement too.
HUGH GRANT CHARACTER (southern, foppish type, as per usual) I say chappie, do you mind awfully lending me your copy of Kitchen Garden?
HIM OFF OF BROOKSIDE Sure, but not until I've read it from cover to cover myself. Hey, why don't you subscribe, and get your own copy delivered to your door? It's also available at all good newsagents. (Smiles at camera, which focuses in on cover of KG)

[lizzie]

It could also be educational.

They could have Mr PH demonstrating the perils of chillie eating

[peter]

Grock and Piglet demonstrating correct use of marinade and barbeque spit attachement.

On second thoughts perhaps not as it would be on too late for me to watch.

[Carole B.]

ummm.....what's 'working class terratorialism' then? ....and which 'middle class plonker'thought it up?

[lizzie]

Someone with steriotype thinking come to work in a northern film office/production company