But she hopes that not too much emphasis is placed on the dope-smoking aspects of "Saving Grace," the new comedy in which she stars as a Cornish housewife persuaded by her gardener to grow and sell pot as a means of saving her impoverished estate.
He was the eldest son of the 9th earl, whose scientific experiments on his Scottish estates impoverished his family.
The subject matter might seem bleak – drug addicts on sink estates, impoverished and abused children in the slums of Mumbai, a mountain climber forced to sacrifice a limb – but Boyle's films are never hopeless.
This, equally starkly, is why French-Algerian communities still live on impoverished housing estates, go to bad schools, and have few opportunities for social advancement.
When he came to power in 1995, after two failed attempts, he promised to heal the "social fracture", crippling unemployment and inequality, but many suggest he is leaving France worse off, with social unrest on impoverished housing estates and a large public debt.
"UNCLE VANYA" -- Derek Jacobi, Laura Linney and Roger Rees in Chekhov's classic about relationships, visitors to an impoverished country estate, unrequited love and unchanged lives.
While not all public housing is impoverished and neglected, the housing projects and estates shown in films are often grim and foreboding places where only the strongest survive.
Meanwhile, the sporadic war with Castile both impoverished the Kingdom of Aragon and deprived Alfonso and his family of their ancestral estates in Castile.
The man himself was fabulously wealthy, the owner of slaves and estates, capable of raising his own armies for a while, though his struggles ultimately impoverished him.
