A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family.
7 March 1947, Viterbo, Caldas, Colombia
1982, Bogotá, Colombia
26 May 1972
1972
19 April 1981, Bogotá, Colombia
3 June 1963, New York City, New York, USA
7 September 1970, USA
January 01, 2011
Unflinching drama of the journey of a drug mule.August 06, 2004
One of those films that finds strength in its directness, that passes up the fireworks and cheap tricks and just goes straight for the starkness of a powerful situation.August 01, 2004
One of the emblematic migration stories of our time.September 03, 2004
Marston's compact, personal film doesn't judge his Maria, it merely observes her, explains her and humanizes a dark corner of a dirty business.July 30, 2004
A stunner of a film.April 28, 2010
'Maria Full of Grace' offers a clear picture of the economics that drive the hopeless many to take risks in the enrichment of the few.April 29, 2009
Moreno gives a very memorable debut performance...July 11, 2010
"Maria Full Of Grace" was a hit at the Sundance Film Festival and carries the cinematic currency of an important and thought provoking drama.September 19, 2010
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.September 08, 2005
the filmmaker's eye and ear for authentic detail and believable characterization...make the film an unusually tough and gritty slice of underworld life.August 26, 2004
The fact that [Moreno's] Maria is so believable, so compelling, rests entirely on what she brings to the part, not what the part brings to her. Her face is the kind that can carry a movie on the strength of sheer screen presence.July 30, 2004
A gripping, deeply moving film.