Maria Full of Grace 2005 DVD Top-quality Free UK shipping

Based on 1000 true stories.Less a film about the drug trade than an intimate portrait of a woman ensnared in it, Maria Full of Grace is this year’s surprise breakout hit. Academy Award nominee Catalina Sandino Moreno turns in a captivating and compelling performance as Maria, a likable, spirited and fearless Colombian girl. To bring money to her family and escape a stifling existence in her Columbian town, she risks becoming a mule for a drug ring. It’s a harrowing, life-changing and life-threatening journey and a frightful experience for small-town Maria.The film sweeps us along on a tense and unpredictable journey with a heroine who is gutsy, rebellious and brilliantly alive. Maria Full of Grace is not a true story, but a story that happens everyday.Description: Maria Alvarez, a bright, spirited 17-year old, lives with three generations of her family in a cramped house in rural Colombia. Desperate to leave her job stripping thorns from flowers in a rose plantation, Maria accepts a lucrative offer to transport packets of heroin-which she must swallow-to the United States.