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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 41 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 7, 2004
- Originally Released: 2004
- Label: Hbo Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Catalina Sandino Moreno | |
Performer: | Virginia Ariza, Yenny Paola Vega, Johanna Andrea Mora & Evangelina Morales | |
Directed by | Joshua Marston | |
Screenwriting by | Joshua Marston | |
Composition by | Leonardo Heiblum | |
Produced by | Paul Mezey | |
Director of Photography: | Jim Denault |
Entertainment Reviews:
[A] well-crafted, finely acted tale....Moreno's exceptional performance maintains the mix of belligerence and naivete that makes Maria such a contradictory and compelling protagonist.
Sight and Sound
The movie is every bit as gripping and suspenseful as many far more expensive Hollywood thrillers.
Movieline's Hollywood Life
A human drama of great power...
Chicago Sun-Times
[Moreno] bolts the movie down with an earthy, spontaneous performance.
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Rating: 4/5 --
Unflinching drama of the journey of a drug mule.
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Common Sense Media
Rating: 4/4 --
The subject could be, and has been, exploitative in other films, but Joshua Marston shrewdly sketches asides of drama about whether Maria should simply remain in New York. To his credit, that outcome feels as fraught with peril as her drug-running.
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The Film Yap
Rating: B+ --
Belongs to Moreno.
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Lessons of Darkness
Product Description:
This debut feature film by Joshua Marston tells the suspenseful and absorbing story of Maria, a poor, pregnant Columbian teenager (Catalina Sandina Moreno) with a soul-crushing job at a flower plantation and a rebellious streak. Her multigenerational, all-female family relies too much on her as the principle breadwinner, squandering her earnings on medicines of questionable value for her sister's baby. This drives Maria to quit, dump her immature boyfriend, and go to Bogotá where she tumbles into work as a drug mule. Like thousands of real-life Columbians, she earns money by flying to New York City with up to a kilogram of tightly wrapped heroin pellets in her stomach, risking prison or worse: instant death should even one of the pellets break open inside her. Marston based the film on actual interviews with airport customs agents and former mules; the result is an authentic, intensely cinematic experience. The camera wrings vivid color and mood from the many on-location settings and doesn't shy away from any aspect of Maria's journey, making this succeed as a suspense film, character study, and detailed examination of a rarely seen aspect of the drug wars. Thanks to the superb performance and charisma of lead actress Moreno--in her film debut--the audience stays riveted to her plight every step of the way. MARIA FULL OF GRACE made its debut at Sundance where it won the Audience Drama Award.
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- Sales Rank: 32,441
- UPC: 026359192722
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