Grow is a 2025 British family comedy film starring Nick Frost, Golda Rosheuvel, Priya-Rose Brookwell, Dominic McLaughlin, and Jeremy Swift. It tells the story of Dinah, a farmer whose niece, Charlie, can telepathically connect with plants and make them grow to immense proportions.
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Cast
Golda Rosheuvel as Dinah
Priya-Rose Brookwell as Charlie
Nick Frost as Arlo
Joe Wilkinson as Boris Mudd
Tim McInnerny as Lord Smythe-Gherkin
Jane Horrocks as Lady Smythe-Gherkin
Kathryn Drysdale as Charlie's mother
Fisayo Akinade as Kevin
Sharon Rooney as Sharon
Jeremy Swift as Mr Gregory
Alan Carr as MC
Dominic McLaughlin as Oliver Gregory
Production
The film is directed by John McPhail and produced by Double Nickel Entertainment in association with Sky Studios and Orogen Entertainment. The film is written by Nick Guthe, Christos N. Gage, Ruth Fletcher Gage, Mark Huckerby and Nick Ostler. Principal photography took place in Scotland in 2024.
The ensemble cast includes Golda Rosheuvel, Nick Frost, Jeremy Swift, Tim McInnerny and Jane Horrocks, and also features Priya-Rose Brookwell, Joe Wilkinson, Kathryn Drysdale, Fisayo Akinade, Sharon Rooney and Alan Carr.
Release
Grow premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in Scotland on August 16, 2025.
The film was later screened at the Montreal International Film Festival in Canada, which took place from August 22 to 24, 2025 and where it won the Best Cast Award.
It was also screened at the Canada International Children's Film Festival on August 23–24, 2025, where it won the Best Feature Film Award.
The film further screened at IFF Young Horizon, Dinard Festival of British & Irish Film, FilmColumbia Festival, Cambridge Film Festival, Into Film Festival, British Film Festival Australia, POFF Just Film, Ale Kino! Festival, and the Gijon Film Festival.
The film was set to be released theatrically in the United States on October 3, 2025. Following the announcement of the release of Taylor Swift's The Official Release Party of a Showgirl on the same day, Grow moved its release date to October 17.
