{"product_id":"maria-full-of-grace-dvd","title":"Maria Full of Grace (DVD)","description":"Product Description\n\nWriter-director Joshua Marston's debut feature chronicles the dangerous physical and emotional journey of a pregnant 17-year-old girl who quits her job trimming stems at a rose plantation and drifts into employment as a drug \"mule,\" smuggling heroin from her native land into the United States to pay for her mother's and sister's bills.\nBonus Content:\n\nAudio Commentary: Audio commentary with writer\/director Joshua Marston Theatrical Trailer: The original theatrical and international trailer\n\nAmazon.com\n\nWhen a movie can blend passionate social concern with good old-fashioned suspense, it must be doing something right. Maria Full of Grace scores high on both counts. Maria is a Colombian teenager who, for a large paycheck, agrees to be a mule for drug-runners: she has to swallow dozens of thumb-sized capsules of heroin and smuggle them into New York. This debilitating process is painstakingly described, and of course not everything goes as planned when Maria and her fellow mules land in America. Director Joshua Marston is working on a low budget, which explains the film's narrow, single-minded focus--but this may be a strength, not a weakness. The trump card is the lead performance of Catalina Sandrino Moreno, who won awards at the Seattle and Newport Film Festivals. Her empathetic face carries us along on Maria's journey, and humanizes a problem that is too easily relegated to a headline. --Robert Horton\u003cbr\u003eASIN: B0002TT0MI\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: 4EKGRJ008V8A_ns\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eBinding: DVD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Individually inspected: Guaranteed to play perfectly or your money back. Case may show wear and may be in library packaging. Ships Fast!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41901293076538,"sku":"4EKGRJ008V8A_ns","price":8.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/B0002TT0MI-0.jpg?v=1794026256","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/maria-full-of-grace-dvd","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}