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Rating: R
Release Date: Jul 16, 2004
Running Time: 101 mins.
Additional Notes: dialogue Spanish, subtitled English
A bright, spirited 17-year-old, Maria Alvarez, lives with three generations of her family in a cramped house in rural Colombia and works stripping thorns from flowers in a rose plantation. The offer of a lucrative job involving travel--in fact, becoming a drug "mule"--changes the course of her life. Far from the uneventful trip she is promised, Maria is transported into the risky and ruthless world of international drug trafficking. Her mission becomes one of determination and survival and she finally emerges with the grace that will carry her forward into a new life.
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PETER TRAVERS -
July 14, 2004
Remember the name Catalina Sandino Moreno. The heartfelt and harrowing performance she gives here should put her in line for a heap of year-end awards. Moreno plays Maria Alvarez, a seventeen-year-old Colombian girl who can't alleviate her family's poverty with the pittance she earns slaving in a flower factory. Maria sees an out with an offer to become a mule -- she can join other Colombian girls who smuggle drugs into the United States. Debuting director Joshua Marston, who also wrote the taut…
PETER TRAVERS -
July 14, 2004
