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Mary and Martha
2013 90m Not Rated
Drama
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TV Movie
6.8
56%
64%
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Two mothers lose their sons to malaria.
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Directed By
Phillip Noyce
Written By
Richard Curtis
Studio
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Cast of Mary and Martha
Hilary Swank
Mary
Brenda Blethyn
Martha
Sam Claflin
Ben
Frank Grillo
Peter
James Woods
Mary's Father
Adam Neill
Teacher
Stephen Jennings
Principal
Chandler McIntyre
Hannah
Stephanie Faracy
Head of Committee
Melissa Ponzio
Alice
Simone White
Tracy
Dominika Jablonska
Pilates Teacher
Thembekile Mthembu
Orphan Girl
Thembeka Mthembu
Orphan Girl
Elaine Nalee
Senator's Secretary
Bea Miller
Funeral Singer
Zethu Dlomo-Mphahlele
Patience
Peter Jurasik
Pastor
Roelof Du Toit
Red Haired Rugby Player
Katleho Ramaphakela
South African Doctor
Kagiso Lediga
Kumi
Mary and Martha Reviews
New York Post
Linda Stasi
While Swank and Blethyn make everything they're in more remarkable for their presence, the movie plays more like a based-on-fact Lifetime flick than an HBO work of fiction.
Uncle Barky
Ed Bark
The film grows in power, with both Swank and Blethyn engaging a viewer's sympathies through the force of their performances apart and eventually together after a chance meeting.
The Playlist
Kevin Jagernauth
[A] sentimental, misjudged, one-note clunker, that's yet another wide misstep by two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank.
Austin Chronicle
Jessi Cape
The remainder of the film is captivating, perhaps in part because it taps into humans' innate voyeurism, perhaps because Curtis props open our eyelids to the cause despite the film's missteps.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Neal Justin
It has an important statement to make, but any semblance of a story keeps getting interrupted by the filmmakers' need to remind you that malaria in Africa is really, really bad.
AV Club
Simon Abrams
While Curtis makes a point of making characters show their grief by gingerly stepping on each other's toes, Mary And Martha is more of a product of unwitting creative insensitivity than an apt reflection of it.
Los Angeles Times
Mary McNamara
It's a good message, an important message, one worth repeating as Curtis does each year with Comic Relief and as he does here. It's just too bad the movie isn't better.
Variety
Brian Lowry
Mary and Martha -- a moving return to intimate form for HBO -- represents an emotionally stirring triumph.
New York Times
Neil Genzlinger
The malaria story, it seems to say, is filmable only if the central figures are white and it is larded up with the kind of button-pushing that television dramas thrive on. The Africans in this film are largely props for Ms. Swank to hold.
Boston Globe
Matthew Gilbert
Mary and Martha is fictional, but the characters have the blandness you generally find in docudramas.
TV Guide
Matt Roush
Mary is headstrong and abrasive, Martha matronly and warm, and the actresses' chemistry makes up for an earnest predictability in the storytelling.
RedEye
Curt Wagner
Mary and Martha is a little film with a big heart. While well acted and artfully shot, it suffers from message movie traps, which isn't to say I wasn't swept up in its good intentions.
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