Another DVD for your viewing pleasure

So here I go. I fight off late night munchies despite TWO Ben & Jerry's ice cream containers pleading me to take them out of the freezer. I'm avoiding those early evening glasses of red wine and ice cold beer that sedates me. Instead, I'm turning to NETFLIX to fulfill my needs. It's bed time and there's a movie to be watched. It's a movie that would have racked up some serious late fees if it weren't for Netflix. And when I say serious, I'm talking three figures here. It's a movie that I had to watch in order to get another one to replace it. And you know what... I wish I watched it sooner.


Maria Full of Grace (2004)
My Rating (9/10)

Quick Summary: A frustrated, independent, 17 year old girl in Columbia, desperate for a better job and better life, accepts a job as drug-running "mule." She smuggles a half-kilo of heroin into the United States when everything goes wrong and her life spins out of control.

Wow. I kept putting this movie off shoving other movies into my DVD player instead of it. Finally, it had to be watched. I didn't plan on staying up late to watch it, and I thought maybe I'll watch thirty or so minutes of it and doze off. I was so engaged in the story and the character I fought off my sleepiness, sat up in bed and watched it all the way through. It was an hour and forty minutes, it was past 1:00 AM and despite the late into the night drowsiness, I wanted more. I wanted to see what happened next to Maria. I wanted to know how her life turns out. I was rooting for her. Unfortunately, the movie was over and I had to go to sleep.

Watch this movie. You will be pleasantly surprised.