An Odd Couple story set in an English garden

THE English so love their gardens that they have an entire cinema subgenre devoted to titles like The Secret Garden (a 1993 adaptation of the Frances Hodgson Burnett kid-lit classic) and Greenfingers (a 2000 release in which prison inmates turn over a new, um, leaf).

A garden is the very source of dramatic conflict in the charming contemporary fairy tale trifle This Beautiful Fantastic written and directed by Simon Aboud, a British advertising veteran whose other claim to fame may be as pop icon Paul McCartney's son-in-law.

Jessica Brown Findlay from the UK television miniseries Downton Abbey plays Bella Brown, an aspiring children's book author. More to the point, Bella is an obsessive-compulsive recluse living alone in a rented house in the heart of London. She checks the clock 20 times before leaving for work at the local library, wearing the same buttoned-to-the-collar black dress. In her larder are identical tins of food neatly aligned, and she has seven toothbrushes, one for each day of the week.