Studio: Fine Line Features
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joshua Marston
DVD Release Date: 12/7/2004
Theatrical Release Date: 7/16/2004
PublishedId: 38549
UPC: 026359192722
Plot: New York-based writer/director Joshua Marston makes his feature film debut with the coming-of-age drama Maria Full of Grace, with a script developed at the Sundance Screenwriter's Lab. Catalina Sandino Moreno plays Maria Alvarez, a teenager living in Bogotá, Colombia. Along with most of the other able-bodied people in her community, she works a perilous job in a flower plantation.
She wants to quit, but her large family depends on her meager salary. One day, Maria meets a smooth-talking young man named Franklin. He offers her a business proposition to make some money and travel. However, the task involves her acting as a drug mule and smuggling heroin into the U.S.
Maria Full of Grace premiered at the {~Sundance Film Festival} in 2004 as part of the dramatic competition. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide.
