Rating: R
Genre: Drama
Theatrical Release: 07/16/2004(USA
Release Date: 12/07/2004
SubTitles: English/Espanol/French
Dubbed: Espanol
Sound: DD5.1/DD2
Run Time: 101 Minutes
Flags: Profanity, Drug Content
Distributor/Studio: HBO Home Video

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

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Cast:
Catalina Sandino Moreno - Maria Alvarez
Yenny Paola Vega - Blanca
Guilied Lopez - Lucy
John Alex Toro - Franklin
Patricia Rae - Carla
Wilson Guerrero - Juan
Jaime Osorio Gomez - Javier
Johanna Andrea Mora - Diana
Orlando Tobon - Don Fernando
Fernando Velasquez - Pablo

Production:
Joshua Marston - Director
Paul S. Mezey - Producer
Jaime Osorio Gomez - Co Producer
Leonardo Heiblum Jacobo Lieberman - Composer
Lee Percy Anne McCabe - Editor
Joshua Marston - Screen Writer
Yann Blanc - Art Director
Orlando Tobon - Associate Producer
Rodrigo Guerrero - Associate Producer
El Barco Producciones - Casting
Ellyn Long Marshall - Casting
Jorge Valencia - Casting
Marie E. Nelson - Casting
Jim Denault - Cinematographer
Lauren Press - Costume Designer
Sarah Beers - Costume Designer
Carrie Fix - First Assistant Director
Becky Glupczynski - Line Producer
Lynn Fainchtein - Makeup Supervisor
Debbie De Villa - Production Designer
Monica Marulanda - Production Designer
Alex Wolfe - Sound/Sound Designer
Maria Eugenia Salazar - Casting

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