Synopsis
Maria Full of Grace (María, llena eres de gracia, 2004) is a Colombian-American drama directed by Joshua Marston that you can watch online on iFILM. Seventeen-year-old Maria (Catalina Sandino Moreno) strips rose stems on a plantation conveyor belt and keeps her family afloat. Then she loses the job. With almost no options left, she agrees to swallow drug capsules and carry them to New York.
The film tracks Maria and her friend Blanca (Guilied Lopez) from recruitment through the nerve-shredding customs line at JFK. Marston isn't making a cautionary drug film. This is a precise, unsentimental portrait of what poverty forces people to do — and what it costs them.
Catalina Sandino Moreno's debut performance got her an Oscar nomination, an extremely rare recognition for a non-English-language film with an unknown lead. The screenplay was built from over a thousand real-life accounts. Stream Maria Full of Grace (2004) online on iFILM.
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