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Master Gardener

Master Gardener

  • Status: Released
  • 19-05-2023
  • Runtime: 111 min
  • Score: 6.097
  • Vote count: 290

Narvel Roth is a meticulous horticulturist who is devoted to tending the grounds of a beautiful estate and pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowager Mrs. Haverhill. When she demands that he take on her wayward and troubled niece, it unlocks dark secrets from a buried violent past.

Joel Edgerton

Narvel Roth

Sigourney Weaver

Norma Haverhill

Quintessa Swindell

Maya Core

Esai Morales

Oscar Neruda

Eduardo Losan

Xavier

Victoria Hill

Isobel Phelps

Amy Le

Janine

Erika Ashley

Maggie

Timothy McKinney

Ronnie

Jared Bankens

RG

Matt Mercurio

Sissy

Christian Vaughn

John

Emily Russell

Waitress

Jef Figallo

US Marshall #2

Sean Richmond

US Marshall #1

Monica R. Harris

Female Host

Rick Cosnett

Stephen Collins

Bruce Mohat

The Old Man

Cade Burk

Johnny Boy

DJames Jones

Reverend Charles

Ja'Quan Monroe-Henderson

Entrance Guard

Eric Stratemeier

Male Party Goer

Jami Bolin

Diner (uncredited)

Samuel Ali

Gardener (uncredited)

Scott Green

Gardener (uncredited)

Suzette Lange

Master Gardener (uncredited)

Colette Jeansonne

Maya's Mom (uncredited)

Connor Turley

Militia Leader (uncredited)

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"Narvel" (Joel Edgerton) is the head gardener on the estate of the wealthy, slightly eccentric, "Norma" (Sigourney Weaver) with both being enormously proud of their horticultural expertise and creations. One afternoon, she entertains him to tea and explains that her great-neice "Maya" (Quintessa Swindell) will be joining his team as an apprentice. The women have never met, nor does "Norma" know much about her - but he agrees and she duly arrives. Initially, we think she's a typically recalcitrant teenager with ripped jeans and permanently glued to her earphones. It becomes quite clear, though, that she is interested and the two begin to bond. There are some extra-curricular elements to the plot that gradually draw the story away from the simplicity and precision of the gardening theme and immerse us in the hatred of white supremacy and the violence of drug dealing and the film becomes more predictable. The first twenty minutes or so have an intriguing intensity to them but as the story develops, the (romantic) melodrama creeps in and the story starts to lose it's originality. By the last half hour I found the whole thing had become really quite mediocre and Edgerton, who starts off as something of an enigma ends up rather banal. That said, his performance is quite effective, menacing even, at times and Swindell is competent enough - it's just all a bit seen it before. Worth a watch, but it could have delivered better.