Mary and Martha (2013)

Directed by

Phillip Noyce

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 84 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two mothers from different countries both lose their sons to malaria. They meet and decide to travel to Africa to work on preventing the disease.

melancholicemotionalpoignantsomberhopefulslow-burnheartfeltgrief-driven

What happens

Mary and Martha is a 2013 British-American television film starring Hilary Swank and Brenda Blethyn, and directed by Phillip Noyce. Based on a screenplay by Richard Curtis, it was produced by Working Title Television, in association with the BBC and NBCUniversal. The film had its UK premiere on 1 March 2013 on BBC One and premiered in the US on HBO on 20 April 2013. The film is based on a true story. The film centers around two mothers, one British (Blethyn, based on Malaria No More UK Special Ambassador Jo Yirrell, whose son – like the character played by Sam Claflin – was a volunteer teacher who always gave his malaria pills to his students at an African orphanage), and one American (Swank, as a fictional character, who garners most of the airtime), who share only one thing in common: the loss of their sons to malaria. After the deaths of their sons, the mothers decide to travel to Africa to help with malaria prevention. The film was nominated for the Humanitas Prize. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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