Well-intentioned, and well-cast, this British movie is nonetheless desperately underpowered. It is the tale of an allotment - traditionally the very epicentre of Englishness - to which an enlightened council official sends traumatised asylum seekers to benefit from the therapy of growing their own vegetables. But the incomers come up against the grumpy Little Englanders in their sheds. It could have been a sweet little English picture on traditional lines, but the movie's comic texture is like the sheets of damp cardboard they put down to stop weeds growin
