Maria Full of Grace

Maria Full of Grace

If anyone else has seen this movie I would love to hear your comments it. I don't want to make the movie out to be more than it was but it was a very good movie. I did not expect it being that it was an HBO movie. I even started the movie a little ticked at the blatant HBO movie trailers at the beginning. I always get a little aggravated when I am forced to watch the trailers at the beginning of a DVD, and this movie had one of those beginnings. Besides all that this movie totally sucked me in and disarmed me. It was not until a day or two later that I even thought about my previous feelings on illegal immigration and the like.

I don't want to give too much of the movie away but the movie was about a girl who through a series of events ends up being hired on as a mule. For those who don't know a mule is a person who smuggles drugs into a country by swallowing large grape size packages of the drug. I have known what a mule was for several years but never thought about what was involved in being a mule. The movie was rather graphic but very eye-opening.

My only regret with this movie was that I did not get to watch the director's interview at the end. Leslie and Ben both saw it and said it was very good. Like I said if you get a chance to watch Maria Full of Grace I would love to hear your comments on it.