6.8
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Family, Comedy • 2025 • 115 min • Older Kids (7+)
Grow (2025)
Grow (2025)
Overview
Grow is a 2025 British family comedy about a grumpy farmer named Dinah who reluctantly takes in her estranged niece Charlie, and the two bond over a local giant pumpkin competition full of sabotage and a genetically engineered rival. The Neutral label fits because the signals largely cancel each other out. The story leans traditional in its warmest moments, building toward adoption and committed family formation. A diverse principal cast in a small-town British setting adds a mild progressive note, but the film treats neither as a platform. The core is apolitical: a quirky community, a kid with a green thumb, and an aunt who discovers she wanted a family after all.
Starring Cast
Golda Rosheuvel • Nick Frost • Jeremy Swift
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Family Values: Leans Traditional
Viewer Rating
6.8
Overview
Grow is a 2025 British family comedy about a grumpy farmer named Dinah who reluctantly takes in her estranged niece Charlie, and the two bond over a local giant pumpkin competition full of sabotage and a genetically engineered rival. The Neutral label fits because the signals largely cancel each other out. The story leans traditional in its warmest moments, building toward adoption and committed family formation. A diverse principal cast in a small-town British setting adds a mild progressive note, but the film treats neither as a platform. The core is apolitical: a quirky community, a kid with a green thumb, and an aunt who discovers she wanted a family after all.
Starring Cast
Golda Rosheuvel • Nick Frost • Jeremy Swift
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
Political: Center
Confidence: High
The film's core subject is a lighthearted family comedy centered on a girl's plant-growing ability and a local contest, with only a mild, incidental nod to preferring organic methods over chemicals. This neutral, apolitical framing of everyday rural life and family dynamics anchors the rating at centrist, as the narrative prioritizes charm and bonding over any ideological problem or solution.
Diversity: Moderate
Confidence: High
The movie features a visibly diverse principal cast in a British village setting within a wholesome family story focused on emotional growth, relationships, and community events. It presents no signs of deliberate recasting of established white roles or any narrative emphasis on critiquing traditional identities.
Secondary
Family Values: Leans Traditional
Confidence: High
The film centers on a curmudgeonly aunt reluctantly taking in her estranged niece from foster care; their bond deepens through shared pumpkin-growing efforts, leading to formal adoption as both desire a stable family, with the biological mother's lack of nurturing ability portrayed negatively. This narrative positively frames the formation of a committed guardian-parent relationship and multigenerational family ties.
LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: Low
No LGBTQ+ characters or themes appear in this whimsical family comedy centered on pumpkin farming, family bonds, and a young girl's plant connection.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: Low
Grow is a wholesome family comedy about a farmer and her niece bonding over giant pumpkin contests in a quirky Scottish town. No transgender characters or themes appear in the story.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: High
The film is an original family comedy about a farmer and her niece growing a giant pumpkin, with no legacy characters, adaptations, or historical figures involved.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: High
Original family comedy about giant pumpkins in an English town; lead characters Dinah and Charlie are newly created for the film with no prior source material or established racial canon.
Hinduism: N/A
Confidence: Low
Not depicted in the film.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.0
5.0
Critic Ratings
9.3
N/A
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