Grow

1/17/2026

Do you remember those Children’s Film Foundation films made in the 1960s? Well this is very much in that vein as we follow the adventures of “Charlie” (Priya-Rose Brookwell). With her mum having pretty much abandoned her for a career in California, she has been taken out of her care home and now lives with her struggling aunt “Dinah” (Golda Rosheuvel) on her farm. When the youngster realises that the bailiffs are not far away, she decides that the best way to help is to win the local pumpkin growing competition - and it’s prize of £100,000. Though she does seem to have some ability to commune with plant life, she has no idea how to go about rearing it and so relies on the eccentric caravan-dwelling “Arlo” (Nick Frost) to start the seed growing. Now like with “Lady Grantham” from “Downton A