Grow Your Own

Grow Your Own
DVD cover
Directed byRichard Laxton
Written byFrank Cottrell Boyce
Carl Hunter
Produced byLuke Alkin
Carl Hunter
Barry Ryan
StarringBenedict Wong
John Henshaw
Eddie Marsan
Pearce Quigley
Omid Djalili
Alan Williams
Philip Jackson
Olivia Colman
Joanna Scanlan
CinematographyDavid Luther
Edited byJoe Walker
Music byMartin Phipps
Production
companies
BBC Films
UK Film Council
Northwest Vision
Pathé
Warp Films
Art in Action
Distributed byPathé
Warp Films
Release date
  • 15 June 2007 (2007-06-15)
Running time
97 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£2.5 million[1]
Box office£103,777[2]

Grow Your Own is a 2007 British comedy film directed by Richard Laxton, and written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and Carl Hunter. It stars Benedict Wong, John Henshaw, Eddie Marsan, Pearce Quigley, Omid Djalili, Alan Williams, Philip Jackson, and Olivia Colman. The film centres on a group of gardeners at a Merseyside allotment, who react angrily when a group of refugees are given plots at the site, but after they get to know them better, soon change their minds. The film was previously known under the title The Allotment.[3]

  1. ^ "Acclaimed British Writer Pairs With New Filmmaker to Make £2.5million Feature on Merseyside". North West Vision. Archived from the original on 28 August 2008. Retrieved 7 June 2010.
  2. ^ "UK Film Council – UK Film Box Office Aug 3 – Aug 5 2007". Archived from the original on 24 December 2012. Retrieved 7 June 2011.
  3. ^ "The Allotment (2006)". Yahoo!. Retrieved 16 June 2007.

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