A lot of stars slipped into allignment to get the twee British pot comedy “Saving Grace” into theaters.

It featured Brenda Blethyn in the title role, fresh off two recent Oscar nominations.

The film co-starred and was scripted by Craig Ferguson, a Scottish comic famous all over the British Isles, and already reaching U.S. audiences weekly on “The Drew Carey Show.”

And what did co-star and co-writer Ferguson, then eight years sober, think would tickle viewers’ funnybones at the turn of the millenium? A movie about a newly-widowed gardener taking up cannabis cultivation in scenic, coastal Cornwall, just t’make ends meet, y’understand.

“Saving Grace” is a sweetly ecccentric comedy about how one green thumb –– not belonging to her Scots stoner gardener, Matthew — and how she turns all she knows about plants and planting loose on the one profitable thing that can help her meet the mortgage and the bad debts her late husband left behind.

Small-time grower (in the village rectory’s hidden back plots) Matthew is thus sucked into a scheme he kind of instigates, but one which puts both of them in over their heads, and in a hurry.

Fending off the local constable is one thing. Keeping debtors at bay is another. And then there’s the French mobster they want to sell their best buds to. He’s played by one of my favorite French actors, the amusingly-accented and droll Tchéky Karyo.

“All ze people I deal with are scum,” he purrs to never-sold-pot-before Grace. “I’m a leetle scummy myself. You are not scum. Zat worries me.”

Grace has to strongarm Matthew into letting her be the one to try and “make the deal.”

“With the grrrrreatest respect,” Ferguson’s Matthew burrs. “I’m the young hip one. You’re the hip replacement.”

Matthew’s in love with the fair fisherlady Nicky, and she’s not into his childish pursuit.

“Nicky doesn’t want to be in a relationship with someone who’s irresponsible. And I don’t want to be in a relationship with someone who isn’t Nicky.“

Colorful characters like the seemingly daft cop, the wise but perhaps not “hip” vicar (Leslie Phillips), the garden club spinsters who think cannabis is “tean” and the pot-loving village physician, played by Martin Clunes who’d go on to make a long-running series based on this fish-out-of-water “Doc Martin” fellow.

There’s little strain to any of this, no real sharp edges — despite the menace of bigtime drug distributors — just pretty sights (Port Isaac, Cornwall) and cute eccentrics at every turn.

Nicky and Matthew bicker like the cleverest couple you know.

“You’re getting older,” she says.

“These are laugh lines,” he retorts.

“”Nothing’s that funny,” is her punchline. Well, “Saving Grace” is. Pretty much.

Rating: R, drug abuse, profanity

Cast: Brenda Blethyn, Craig Ferguson, Valerie Edmund, Leslie Phillips, Tchéky Karyo and Martin Clunes

Credits: Directed by Nigel Cole, scripted by Mark Crowdy and Craig Ferguson. A Fine Line release streaming on Tubi, Youtube, Pluto Amazon Prime and Roku TV.

Running time: 1:33