The Terminator

With some information kindly taken from IMDB:

Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn

Review:

C’mon, this is a classic.  Not much to say–typical Arnold movie, not much talking from him, but apparently good enough to get into the Library of Congress as a movie with some sort of impact on culture.

Highlights:

• Pick any of the times Arnold actually gets a one liner.  “Get out.” “I’ll be back.”  “Give me your clothes–now.”
• Gigantic explosions.
• One very good looking Michael Biehn.

***SPOILER***

The film opens with a futuristic machine hovering over a wasteland firing lasers.  Tanks rolls over skulls, and a little blurb shows up with a message about how the machines had waged war with the humans for a while, but that the battle would be decided in the present, and not in the futuristic wasteland.

In the present, it is the early hours of morning, and a garbageman is dumping trash in his truck.  All of a sudden the truck shuts off.  The garbageman curses out his truck and attempts to restart it. Lightning starts to flare all around the truck.  The garbageman runs away and when the lightning clears, there is (a very naked) Arnold (the Terminator) crouched on the ground.  He gets up, and walks to the edge of a building.

The scene cuts to a trio of punks who are crowded around a pay-to-see telescope.  They see (the still naked) Terminator walking towards them and begin to taunt him.  The Terminator demands the clothes of one of the punks, and all three flash knives at the Terminator.  There is a “fight”–as in not much of one–and the Terminator “terminates” one of the punks by punching all the way through his body (ick).  The now-duo of punks decide that it’s better to just get naked than to end up like their friend.

In another part of town, a hobo is mumbling to himself, when the same lightning occurs.  This time, Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn) falls out of the sky–literally.  He gets up groaning (and naked) and begins to run.  He sees the hobo, who asks him if he saw the lightning.  A police car pulls up and catches Kyle putting on the hobo’s pants.  They ask each other if he’s the one, and Kyle runs and the police chase.  Kyle runs into an alley and ambushes the cop who chases him.  He asks him the date, and the cop answers, “The 12th of May.”  Kyle demands to know the year, but is cut off when the police car with backup shows up.  He runs into the back door of a store and into a shopping mall.  The police pursue him.  He begins to take clothes off the rack and wear them and hides in a photography booth to elude the cops (nice product placement, there, Nike).  He runs up an escalator, hops off a catwalk, grabs a shotgun from a police cruiser (why do cops leave shotguns in an unlocked police cruiser?) and walks away.  He stops in a phone booth, looks up the name “Connor, Sarah” and rips the page out before leaving.

Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), meanwhile, is cruising down the street on her little moped.  It’s dawn and she looks happy.  She pulls up in front of a diner and goes inside.  She remarks to one of her coworkers that she’s late and punches her time card, reading “Sarah Connor” at the top.

The Terminator has shown up in the suburbs, dressed like one of the punks.  He punches through a car’s window and starts it and drives off.

Meanwhile, Sarah is having a bit of trouble with her job.  She gets the orders for one table completely mixed up and another table demands to be served.  She spills food on her customer, and a kid puts ice cream in her apron pocket.

The Terminator goes to a sporting goods shop and asks to see a number of guns.  He asks for a plasma laser gun but is turned down, and goes on to order a number of heavy weaponry.  The shopkeeper tells him there’s a 15 day wait on handguns but the rifles can go now.  The Terminator begins to load bullets, the shopkeeper tells him he can’t do that, and the Terminator says simply, “Wrong.”  And then he kills the shopkeeper.

Kyle saws off the butt of his shotgun, and hides it in his coat.  The Terminator pulls up next to a phone, where a man is telling his girlfriend to come and pick him up because his bike broke down.  The Terminator pushes him out of the way, grabs the phonebook, looks up the same name, “Connor, Sarah” and rips out the page.

The Terminator pulls up in front of a suburban house.  He walks up to the door and a dog tied up in the front yard barks wildly at him.  He knocks on the door, and a woman opens it.  He asks, “Sarah Connor?” and she replies in the affirmative.  He kills her, using a laser sighted gun.  At Sarah Connor’s restaurant, one of her co-workers pulls her aside and tells her to listen to the tv report, which is about the other Sarah Connor who was shot by the Terminator.  The co-worker teases Sarah, “You’re dead, honey.”

Kyle is sitting in a car and he starts it by crossing wires.  While he is sitting in the car, he sees construction machines and begins to think about the future where he comes from.  Again, he sees the tank rolling over human skulls and lasers firing.  He and another fighter are running across the wasteland eluding the machine tanks.  Other human fighters are concealed in underground bunkers.  He and the other fighter run and hide behind some pillars.  Kyle gets an explosive of some type, loads it, and throws it under the tire of one of the tanks.  The other fighter does the same, but is a little bad in their timing and gets blown up by the tank.  Kyle runs to where a car is waiting for him.  The driver gets into the passenger seat to man the gun loaded on top of the car, and Kyle begins to drive to elude an aircraft.  The aircraft chases them, and Kyle crashes the car.  The other man, the gunner, is dead, and flames begin to engulf the car.  Kyle wakes up in the car near the construction area again and drives off slowly.

Meanwhile, Sarah Connor and her friend are getting ready to go out.  The phone rings, and Sarah picks it up.  The man on the other end of the line begins a sexually graphic description of what he’d like to do to her.  Sarah realizes the call is for her friend (it’s her friend’s boyfriend on the line).  There is a moment where the boyfriend realizes that it’s not his girlfriend at all and he becomes embarassed.  Sarah passes the phone to her friend and the boyfriend begins his little spiel again.

At a police station, there is a man who fighting his confinement by police officers.  A black man stands there and mixes his cup of coffee calmly.  He walks down a row of cubicles and is stopped by someone who hands him a file for the dead Sarah Connor.  Then he is given a second file, for another dead Sarah Connor.  He is puzzled.  The two men converse and remark that the press will be all over this “pattern killer”.

Sarah and her friend are getting ready to leave for their night out and check the answering machine before they leave.  Sarah is looking for her lizard who is perched on top of a cabinet.  One of the messages is from Sarah’s date–he is cancelling on her.  Morosely, she decides to go to a movie by herself while her friend and her boyfriend go out.  She steps out of the apartment and runs into a guy–her friend’s boyfriend.  She laughs and goes to her moped. Something in the parking lot is making her uneasy, but she gets on her moped and rides away.  Kyle is sitting in a car and follows her.

The two cops come out of the room and are greeted by ag roup of reporters who ask them about the killings.  The detectives decline to comment and go into a room.  The Lieutenant Traxler, the calm coffee mixing detective, tells the other to call the last Sarah Connor, but the other detective informs him that there is only an answering machine.  At the house, Sarah’s friend and her boyfriend are getting it on.  They have a Walkman turned up and they can’t hear the answering machine.  Lieutenant Traxler decides to make a statement to the press about the two killings, hoping that Sarah Connor will call them.

Sarah is at a restaurant and hears the news report about the two Sarahs who have been killed.  She tries the phone at the restaurant but it is out of order.  She runs into the street and notices a man following her–Kyle.  She slips into a club and watches Kyle pass her.  She asks to use the phone in the club and they tell her it’s in the back.  She calls the cops but all the lines are busy.

The Terminator shows up at Sarah’s apartment complex.  Sarah’s friend goes into the kitchen to make a sandwich but is surprised when Sarah’s lizard knocks things off the top of the refridgerator.  The sliding door opens.  The Terminator walks in and sees the friend’s boyfriend sleeping.  The boyfriend wakes up right before the Terminator kills him–but the Terminator shoves him through the sliding door.  The friend is still in the kitchen, with her stupid walkman on, oblivious to what is going on in the bedroom.  The boyfriend is still fighting with the Terminator, but obviously losing badly.  The friend walks through the hallway and is surprised by her boyfriend coming through the door headfirst.  The Terminator shoots her once but she is still alive.  She tries to crawl away but he shoots her several more times.  The answering machine picks up a call and it’s Sarah on the line–she wants her friend to come get her from the club.  The Terminator realizes that there’s been a mistake and picks up an address book and ID and sees that the woman he just killed was not Sarah.

Sarah finally reaches the detectives.  Sarah tells the cops that there is someoone following her.  They tell her to remain there until they can get a car there.  The Terminator arrives at the club and a bouncer attempts to stop him from entering without paying, but the Terminator simply crushes the bouncer’s hand.  Sarah is seated at the table and the Terminator misses seeing her when she bends over to pick something up.  She sees Kyle sitting in the club and begins to get frightened.  The Terminator spots her as well.  Sarah finally sees the Terminator but right before the Terminator kills her, Kyle brings out his shotgun and shoots the Terminator.  There is a mass panic as the club sees that someone has been shot.  Kyle has fired at the Terminator at least 3 times, but the Terminator simply gets up.  The Terminator fires his machine gun and ends up killing a few patrons.  He fires at Kyle and at Sarah, but is unable to kill them.  He sees Sarah trapped under a dead body, but again, Kyle fires the shotgun at the Terminator to delay him.  Kyle says his famous line, “Come with me if you want to live.”  The Terminator gets up again and Kyle and Sarah begin to run.  The Terminator chases them down an alley and we see that he is able to analyze things with his eyes.  The Terminator jumps onto the car and punches through the window and grabs Sarah.  Kyle swings the car so the Terminator falls off.  A cop car sees that the Terminator was hit and calls for an ambulance and to warn other cops to watch out for Kyle’s car, but the Terminator simply gets up and steals the police car.  The Terminator begins the pursuit again.

Kyle and Sarah are in the car, and he tells her to do nothing without him telling her to do it.  She is extremely frightened, thinking he is there to kill her.  He tells her that he is there to help her, that his name is Reese and he is there to protect her from termination.

The Terminator is in the police cruiser, and we see that he also has the ability to mimic voices perfectly, including the cop who he stole the cruiser from.

Sarah tells Reese that she didn’t do anything and there must be a mistake, but Reese informs her that she will do something in the future that is important.  Sarah is in disbelief that the Terminator got up from multiple shotgun blasts and being hit by a car.  Reese informs her that the Terminator is a machine–a cyborg.  Sarah asks him how that can be when the Terminator was bleeding.  They evade a number of police cars and pull into a parking garage.  Reese explains to her that the Terminator is half-man, half-machine.  Under the skin, there is a metal chassis and he warns her that it is an incredibly tough material.  He tells them they look human and are hard to spot and that he couldn’t tell who it was until the Terminator attacked her.  She tells him there are no such things at the moment, that they don’t exist–and he agrees, saying they will not exist for another 40 years.  She asks then if it’s from the future, and he says a possible future.  She then asks him if he is from the future, and when he says yes, she tries to run again.  He grabs her.  She bites him.  He tells her not to do that again and tells her that the Terminator’s sole purpose is to kill her and it won’t stop until it or she is dead.  She asks if Reese can kill it, but he says he is not sure with the kind of technology available to him.

The Terminator is still looking for them.  Another cop car finds Reese’s car, abandoned.  The Terminator hears the report through the cop radio.  The cops are patrolling the garage.  Sarah and Reese are running trying to find a car.  They find an unlocked one.  She asks Reese why she is being hunted and he tells her that there was a nuclear war and everything was wiped out.  Only a few survivors were left but no one knew who had begun the war.  The machines, he tells her, were responsible–defense systems that were hooked into everything.  The computer got smart and saw all people as a threat and set off the weapons to exterminate the humans.  She asks if he saw the war, and he says no–that he grew up after the war and running from the machines.  He tells her the humans were rounded up and put into camps to be exterminated.  Some of the humans were kept alive and a man taught them to revolt.  He tells her the name of the man: John Connor, her unborn son.

Kyle starts the car but the Terminator has already arrived in the parking garage.  The Terminator fires several shots at them, but Kyle and Sarah keep driving.  Kyle fires some shots at the Terminator too.  A pursuit ensues down a highsway.  Kyle tells her to drive and Reese gets up to fire more shots at the Terminator.  The Terminator crashes into a wall and the police corner them. The police tell them to get out of the vehicle and another cop goes to inspect the Terminator’s vehicle.  There is no one inside–the Terminator is gone.

Kyle and Sarah are at the police station.  The Lieutenant offers her some coffee.  She is obviously upset.  The Lieutenant tells her that her friend and the boyfriend are both dead.  The Lieutenant tells her to tell the doctor everything that Reese told her and she asks him if Kyle is crazy and the doctor says that’s what they’re going to find out.

The Terminator breaks into an empty room.  He is severely damaged in one eye and has a disgustingly serious injury on his arm.  He cuts it open and repairs the wires inside.

Reese is being interviewed by the cops and tells them he served in the human resistance from 2021 to the year 2027.  The doctor clearly doesn’t believe him.  Reese tells him that they found time displacement (time travel) equipment at a lab they captured and realized the Terminator had already gone through.  Reese went through as well and the doctor asks him how he was supposed to get back if the humans had already blown up the machine; Reese says he can’t, but then again, nothing can come through either.  “It’s just him, and me,” he tells the doctor.

Back at the Terminator’s place, he has fixed some of his injuries except his injured eye.  He grabs the scalpel and pops out the injured eyeball.  Now there is a red light where his eye used to be, so the Terminator begins to wear sunglasses to conceal the light.  He grabs some guns and leaves again.

The doctor and the cops are watching a video of Kyle’s interview, and Kyle tells them that nothing dead can go through the time travel machine–only living things which is why he couldn’t bring any weapons with him.  When the doctor asks him why the Terminator, who was metal, made it through, Kyle tells him it’s surrounded by living tissue (skin, blood, hair).  The doctor is gleeful, thinking maybe he can make his career out of Reese’s story and the “paranoid delusions” that Kyle has.  The doctor asks why the other two Sarah Connors were killed and Kyle tells him that the computers running the machines had only her name and her city.  Kyle gets upset and says he won’t answer more questions.  The doctor tells her that Reese is crazy.  The cops show her a bulletproof vest and tell her that’s what the Terminator must have been wearing.  She asks the cops how the Terminator could simply have punched through the windshield, and one of the cops tells her that he must have been high on drugs. The cop tells her to get some rest on a couch and gives her a blanket and tells her she’ll be safe in there.  The doctor leaves the building and the Terminator arrives to ask where Sarah Connor is.  The front desk man tells him that Sarah is making a statement and that she won’t be out for a while.  The Terminator looks around and says, “I’ll be back.”  The front desk man goes on with his business but then sees a light growing brighter.  The Terminator drives his car through the front door and crashes the entire place.  Sarah gets up from the couch, frightened.  The cops are killed as the Terminator goes through the building.  The Lieutenant tells her to stay in the room.  The Terminator rips out the electric and the power goes out.  Kyle ambushes the guard and escapes.  Sarah hides under a desk while the cops attempt to kill the Terminator.  Lieutenant Trexler is killed next and then the other detective.

Somebody rattles the doorknob–it’s Kyle.  Kyle and she start running again.  The Terminator is still hunting for them.  The two peel out in a car and the Terminator fires at them again but runs out of ammunition.  The car runs out of gas and two get out.  He gives her some things to take and then they push the car off the road and into the bushes.  They end up under a bridge. He asks if she’s cold, and she says yes, and he comes over to share warmth with her.  She asks him what his first name is (Kyle) and what it’s like to go through time travel (“White light…pain…it’s like being born maybe.”)  He’s been shot but he says it’s not bad.  She says they have to go to a doctor but he tells her to forget it.  She says no and wants to attend to it.  She tells him to talk about her son.  Kyle tells her that he’s about his height and has her eyes, that he’s trustworthy and strong.  She asks who the father is and when he says that he doesn’t really know but that he died before the war, she stops him and says she doesn’t want to know.  She asks if John sent him, but he says he volunteered to “meet the legend” who taught John Connor everything–Sarah.  She gets upset and pulls the bandage too tight.  She asks if she’s the right person and he says yes she gets madder and says she doesn’t want to be the mother of the future.  He gives her a message from her son:

“Thank you, Sarah, for your courage through the dark years.  I can’t help you with what you must soon face except to say that the future is not set.  You must be stronger than you imagine you can be.  You must survive or I will never exist.”

He tells her to sleep.  She wants to talk more.  He tells her about his day–how he has to be nocturnal and how they kill the robots.  It cuts back to the futuristic wasteland.  A group of humans are slowly moving underground.  Reese calls out his number and they let him in.  The humans were sweeping for Terminators.  The humans live in poverty and sickness.  A man is poking around a finds a rat.  Reese opens a pocket and inside is a picture of Sarah.  The dogs start barking at the front, and they realize that among the survivors is a Terminator.  Many of the humans are hurt or killed.  Kyle sees his picture of Sarah in the flames and the Terminator firing shots.

Sarah has fallen asleep and wakes up and tells him she was dreaming of dogs.  He tells her that that’s how they spot Terminators.  They go outside.

The Terminator is paging through Sarah’s address book.  There is a knock at the door–the landlord.  The landlord asks if there is something dead inside of the room–the Terminator’s computer comes up with multiple responses; the Terminator chooses to tell the landlord in a vulgar way to go away.  The landlord moves on.  The Terminator chooses Sarah’s mom’s cabin as his next target.

Kyle and Sarah get to a motel and Kyle asks for one with a kitchen.  Kyle says he is going out for supplies and gives her a gun.  She calls her mother (even though she wasn’t supposed to).  The mother asks for her room number and she gives it to her–it’s later revealed it’s the Terminator on the line, and Sarah’s mom is already dead.  The Terminator calls the motel and asks for the address.

Kyle comes back and Sarah purses through the supplies–nothing edible.  She asks him what’s for dinner jokingly–and he tells her plastique, a less volatile form of nitroglycerin.  The Terminator is on his way to the motel.  Kyle is showing her how to make bombs.  Later, they are resting–Sarah in the bed and Kyle in a chair.  He is keeping watch.  She asks him if there will ever be an end, and he didn’t answer.  She tells him he must be disappointed with the “legend” and he says he isn’t.  She asks what the women in his time are like, and he answers, “Good fighters.”  She wonders if he had a girlfriend and he says never.  He confesses he got a picture of her from John Connor and he remarks she looked sad in the picture and wondered what she was thinking of when the picture was taken.  He confesses that he loved her–and that he volunteered to come back in time for her.  He gets upset and says that he didn’t want to say that.  Insert gratutious kissing and sex.

The Terminator is still coming for them.  They are dressed and ready to go.  They hear a dog barking outside and realize the Terminator is here.  Kyle and Sarah get in a car and leave.  The Terminator chases them on a motorcycle.  The Terminator begins to fire at them again.  Sarah hands Kyle a bomb, and Kyle yells at her to trade places.  He tells her to drive faster–he lights the bomb and throws some but none of them hit him.  Kyle is shot and the Terminator is still chasing them.  He pulls out a gun and she crushes him against the guard rail.  The truck overturns.  The Terminator gets up again but gets run over by a semi.  The two truckers inside realize they’ve run over someone and get out to investigate.  The Terminator grabs the trucker and throws him down.  He gets in the semi and the other trucker runs away.  The computer is a bit damaged, but can still tell him how to drive.  Sarah realizes what the Terminator is about to do (squish them with the semi) and she tells Kyle to hurry up and get up out of the overturned car.  They manage to get out just in time.  The Terminator chases them with the semi.  Kyle is obviously injured.  He tells her not to stop, but to keep running.  Kyle lights another bomb and sticks it in the tailpipe and gets into a dumpster to avoid the explosion.  Sarah is still running and the bomb goes off.   The explosion rips the truck apart.  Kyle gets out of the dumptster and Sarah peeks around the corner where she sees the Terminator get out of the truck and collapse.  She sighs a bit and thinks it’s over.  She goes over to investigate and sees Kyle.  They embrace and she tells him they did it and killed the Terminator…except it’s still alive.

The Terminator’s skin and everything human have been wiped out, and only the metal chassis is left (which, by the way, is pretty horrifying in and of itself).  It begins to run after them in a jerky robotic fashion.  This time, Sarah is in charge.  She breaks into a building while the Terminator chases them.  She and Kyle look behind them to see the Terminator limping along trying to catch them.  They bar the door but it begins to crash through the door.  Kyle turns on the machine for cover (either the heat or the electric or the noise) and then collapses.  Sarah yells at him to come on and tries to pull him up.  The Terminator has made it through the door.  And she tells him to get moving and they start running again.

The Terminator is looking for them but the movements and the noise in the factory seem to confuse him.  Kyle grabs a metal rod–they run into a dead end, but it’s too late.  The Terminator is right there.  They go up the steps and the Terminator follows them.   Kyle tells her to run and she refuses, but he yells at her again and she starts to back away.  Kyle beats the Terminator heavily with the metal rod, but to no avail.  The Terminator basically beats him to death and Kyle lights one more bomb and sticks it in the Terminator.  Sarah’s leg is hurt in the explosion by some shrapnel–she pulls it out.  She begins to crawl towards Kyle, who is very obviously dead.  And that’s when the Terminator gets up again.  She crawls away and the Terminator has to crawl too, because it has lost its bottom half.  She crawls away and through a press and the Terminator follows.  She gets right to the end, and shuts the gate.  It reaches through and tries to choke her, but she presses the button and the hydraulic press comes down and crushes it like a grape.  The red light in its eye finally goes out.  The police arrive and strap her to a gurney and Kyle finds his final resting place in a gurney.

Six months later, she is on the road and recording her thoughts.  She wonders what to tell her unborn son–Reese is the father of John Connor.  A dog is traveling with her, natch.  She stops for some gas, visibly pregnant.  She asks the man in Spanish for some gas.  She wonders whether to tell John about his father and whether it will affect his decision to send Kyle back in time or not–but realizes that if John does not send back Reese, he can never be born.  She decides to tell him.  At that time, a boy snaps a picture of her–it’s the same picture that Reese carried around.  She asks the gasoline attendant what the boy said–and the boy says if he doesn’t get money he will get a beating.  The boys yells out that a storm is coming.  And she says she knows, and drives off apparently into the Mexican wilderness.

Saving Grace

With some information kindly taken from IMDB:

Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Craig Ferguson

Highpoints in the film:

• The villagers counting down the enormous lights coming off of Grace’s home.
• The small-time dealer smoking a “sample” joint of Grace’s pot.
• The big-time dealer making his deals with Grace.
• The thug and the small-time dealer in the car with polka music.
• The little old ladies taking a leaf of Grace’s “tea” and making actual tea out of it.
• The thug and the pay-to-see telescope duking it out.
• The president coming to inquire where Grace is and finding the little old lady shopkeepers completely stoned.
• Matthew finally saying he’ll go get a regular job and be responsible and Nicky confessing she’s pregnant.
• The ladies and the police stoned after inhaling the marijuana fumes.
• The documentary and the villager’s interviews and subsequent reactions to it.

Review:

It was a good film, but sometimes slow moving and sometimes awkward.  The plot has some holes in it, but it’s best if you don’t think too hard about it.  This movie is probably more for little old ladies who enjoy the stories of other little old ladies.

***SPOILER***

Grace, a hobbyist gardener, is a widow whose husband has committed suicide.  She lives on a tiny little (British?) island where everyone knows everyone and apparently everyone knows everyone’s business too.  When things have calmed down a bit after his funeral, Grace finds out that her husband had spent far more money than they had had and left her with nothing but a pile of bills and mortgages she can’t afford.  She also finds out her husband had had an affair with another woman, Honey Chambers, during their marriage.

Grace is distraught and isn’t sure what she can do for money.  Matthew, Grace’s happy-go-lucky and (rather incompetent) gardener, inadvertently provides the solution after she lets him go from employment.  Matthew is a hobbyist grower of marijuana and his plants are dying quickly.  Grace saves the plant and realizes that this is the solution to all of her money problems.  She trashes all the orchids she had been growing in her greenhouse and begins to grow pot in earnest with the help of Matthew.

Nicky, Matthew’s girlfriend and a fisherwoman, is concerned about the situation, knowing very well that Matthew and Grace could both be sent to jail.  Nicky is also pregnant but does not tell Matthew.  The company attempting to repossess Grace’s house is knocking down her door, calling her phone, and leaving notices, but Grace simply ignores them.  The head of the company decides to come down to her house in person to see her.

Grace heads to London to try to get sell some pot to dealers. She meets a small-time dealer through Honey Chambers, but he denies being able to buy the quantity that Grace wants to sell.  She convinces him to call a bigger dealer.  The bigger dealer, a Frenchman, is impressed by Grace, and in a comedic exchange reminds her that he is not a nice person.  They agree to a price for the pot, and Grace is quite satisfied.  She heads home with Matthew and Matthew confesses that he no longer wants to be in this scheme because he is worried about losing Nicky.  The small time dealer and the thug of the big time dealer follow Grace back, but the small-time dealer loses the tail along the way.  Matthew runs to tell Nicky he’s decided to get away from his illegal activities and she confesses her pregnancy.

The head of the mortgage company comes down to see Grace but Grace is in hiding from him.  Matthew learns that the two drug dealers have followed them to their town and heads back to Grace’s house to warn her.  Nicky tells the constable that the two dealers are poachers, and the constable (who has been hunting poachers for most of the movie) is eager to arrest them.  One of Grace’s friends holds off the president of the mortgage company.  The constable comes to warn Grace about the “poachers” and finds her and some of the villagers removing the plants from the greenhouse.  The constable reveals he knew about all of her marijuana growing and Matthew’s attempts to grow marijuana as well but warns them that they had better get rid of it before the rest of the police show up since he has called them about the poachers.

The president of the mortgage company, the thug, and the small time dealer all meet and there is a miscommunication.  Grace and her friends have harvested the marijuana into a pile and Grace decides that maybe nobody ought to have it.  She strikes a match and is about to light the entire thing on fire when the thug shows up and tells her not to set it on fire.  He has a knife to the president of the mortgage company’s neck.  One of the ladies showing up for a brunch sees the knife and runs.  When the other little old ladies showing up see him, they attack him with their purses.

The police show up, but one of Grace’s friends opens the door to the greenhouse where the fumes from the pot whoosh out and get everyone high.  The big-time dealer, instead of having sent his thug to intimidate Grace, instead confesses he sent them to keep an eye on her to make sure she was safe.  Grace and the dealer walk out to find everyone high and happy.

The movie concludes with a documentary of Grace, as she has turned her story into a successful novel.  The documentary interviews several of the villagers who mock the cameraman and the reporter with their stories, as they all knew what was going on at Grace’s home but make up silly stories to confuse the reporter.  Grace has married the dealer as well.  She is nominated for a book award and wins it and thanks Matthew and the villagers from the podium.

A Website

I just wanted to take the time to plug a website I really like for movie spoilers.

themoviespoiler.com website is always one of my favorites to go to and it has an intense database of movies to search through (yes, there is really a search feature).  It’s always up to date with new movies and spoilers usually go up within a few days of the movie premeiring in theaters.

You have to get past the annoying pop-ups, but otherwise, it’s a great site.  If you’re looking to see if the ending is what you wanted it to be before you go and waste 9 bucks or whatever it is now to go watch a movie or if you’d prefer to save your 9 bucks and just see what happens, I totally suggest this site.  They also have a lot of older movies in their database for all kinds of genres.

I use it for the horror movie spoilers because I’m actually too sissy to watch the movies myself.  I would like also to point out that the reviewers do not stick their own opinions into the reviews but just spoil the movie.

Just for your own enlightenment.