A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family.
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Joshua MarstonWriter:
Joshua Marston
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María Álvarez
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Juana
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In a small village in Colombia, the pregnant seventeen years old Maria supports her family with her salary working in a floriculture. She is fired and with a total lack of perspective of finding a new job, she decides to accept the offer to work as a drug mule, flying to USA with sixty-two pellets of cocaine in her stomach. Once in New York, things do not happen as planned. Written by Stephen Bowen
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Release Date:
9 December 2004 (Israel) See more »Also Known As:
María, llena eres de gracia See more »Box Office
Budget:
$3,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$139,066 (USA) (16 July 2004)Gross:
$6,517,198 (USA) (5 November 2004)Company Credits
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Juan: You want to get married?
María Álvarez: Do you love me?
Juan: [annoyed] Don't start on that.
María Álvarez: [mad] You're going to marry someone you don't love?
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Written by Edelberto Manriquez Jarava
Performed by Azuquito
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Catalina Sandino Moreno prepared for her role by working in a Colombian flower plantation for two weeks cutting roses. She did not meet with real drug mules because she wanted to appear to be as clueless to the process and the consequences as Maria was. See more »Goofs
After Maria gives Don Fernando the money for Lucy's family, she takes her wallet out twice. See more »Quotes
María Álvarez: I think I'm pregnantJuan: You want to get married?
María Álvarez: Do you love me?
Juan: [annoyed] Don't start on that.
María Álvarez: [mad] You're going to marry someone you don't love?
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Cumbia Sol MarinaWritten by Edelberto Manriquez Jarava
Performed by Azuquito
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"Maria Full of Grace" tells the tale of an impoverished 17 year old Colombian who becomes pregnant and, in need of money, signs on as a drug "mule", smuggling cocaine pellets into the US in her GI tract. An exceptional film for a low budget one man band indie with a deubting artist in the leading role, this film imparts a strong sense of been-there-done-that reality as it follows Maria from Bogota to New York where her life begins to unravel. Unusually well managed without being junked up with the usual Hollywood tawdry tinsel and situational extremes, this very human drama does more pound-for-pound than most films many times its size. Kudos to auteur Marston and company and ingenue Moreno for this interesting and enjoyable drama. (B+)