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Released
2004 · FILM

Maria Full of Grace

A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to secure desperately needed cash for her family, risking capture and death in a perilous underworld that threatens everything she loves.

“Based on 1,000 true stories.”

Directed by
Joshua Marston
Written by
Joshua Marston
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
101 min
Language
ES
CrimeDrama
Streaming on
  • HBO Max

Synopsis

A pregnant Colombian teenager takes on the role of a drug mule in an effort to urgently raise money for her family.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 35

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Anne MccabeShot by Jim DenaultScored by Leonardo HeiblumDesigned by Debbie Devilla

Box Office

2004 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.2× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$12.5M

Budget$3.0M
Worldwide gross$12.5M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $6.5M — 52% of worldwide · International: $5.9M (48%)

Opening weekend: $139K — 2% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $229K — 3% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 7 theaters

Also known as

  • Maria voll der Gnadede
  • Maria Full of Graceen
  • María, llena eres de graciaes
  • Maria, pleine de grâcefr

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