Maria Full of Grace (2004)

It is hard to have any sort of idea what this film is about from the movie poster. I was expecting some sort of Joan of Arc girl in a boring overall film, which is probably why it took me a while to get around to this one.

The film starts in Columbia and ends up in America, picked by the American Film Institute as one of the Top 10 films of the year in 2004 with a single Oscar nominations for Catalina Sandino Moreno's leading performance.

The film is about a girl with fairly loose morals who works at a rose packaging factory in Columbia. She supports her mother, sister, and niece on her small income and when she finds out she is pregnant she looks for other means of making money. A friend of a friend she meets at a local dance puts her in contact with a man that pays her to smuggle drugs into the United States.

I found the plot and acting a lot more interesting that I was expecting going into this. There are scenes and events that will make this film memorable for me in the future. I liked it a lot, it is worth checking out, but it does warrant an R rating and is not for everyone.

Vote: 8/10

IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390221/

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