Paradise Grove
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Rula Lenska
Lee Blakemore
Leyland O'Brien
| Paradise Grove | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Charles Harris |
| Written by | Charles Harris |
| Produced by | David Castro |
| Starring | Ron Moody Rula Lenska Lee Blakemore Leyland O'Brien |
Release date |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Paradise Grove is an independent 2003 black comedy filmed in London. Much of the film is based in a fictional Jewish retirement home. It stars Ron Moody and Rula Lenska. It was directed by Charles Harris and was his first feature film.
Set in an eccentric north London Jewish old age home, the film revolves around three generations of the same family. The cantankerous Izzie Goldberg (Ron Moody), who's dying and is not at all happy about it, his hedonistic daughter Dee (Rula Lenska), the home's owner, a cross between a Sixties flower child and a traditional Jewish mother, and her teenage age son Keith (Leyland O'Brien), the mixed-race outcome of a disastrous marriage. Keith's identity crisis forms the film's emotional core: he's trying to build personal and religious bridges with his grandfather while starting a relationship with the mysterious Kim (Lee Blakemore), who turns up one morning looking for shelter, and who offers the promise of a life outside Paradise Grove. He wants to get away from his domineering mother.[1]