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Two mothers lose their sons to malaria.Two mothers lose their sons to malaria.Two mothers lose their sons to malaria.
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Zethu Dlomo-Mphahlele
- Patience
- (as Zethu Dlomo)
Bea Miller
- Funeral Singer
- (as Beatrice Miller)
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If people say and tell you this is inspiring, they are not wrong. Based on real events, this is really gripping and without knowing where this was heading (hadn't read anything about it, before I watched it), I really was surprised after about 30 minutes into the film. After that it was kind of obvious where it would go, but the acting and the telling of the story is really good.
Not to mention the central performances. Even if towards the end you get a bit of a "cliche" speech, you'd have to have a heart of stone, not to be touched by it at all. You could also argue about the husband and what he decides to do and how things get "solved", but after all that happened, it seems to be a suiting ending to it all
Not to mention the central performances. Even if towards the end you get a bit of a "cliche" speech, you'd have to have a heart of stone, not to be touched by it at all. You could also argue about the husband and what he decides to do and how things get "solved", but after all that happened, it seems to be a suiting ending to it all
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- TriviaThe character of Martha is based on Jo Yirrell, a British woman who became a special ambassador for Malaria No More UK after her 20-year-old son Harry died of malaria in 2005 while volunteering in Ghana. The character of Mary is fictional.
- GoofsIn the local restaurant scene, the waitress speaks Spanish while serving Mary and her son, but Mozambique's official language is Portuguese.
- Quotes
Mary's Father: Well, you can't deny it's an interesting area.
Mary: It's an interesting area?
Mary's Father: Yeah, I've been looking into it. Did you know that if you take every single person killed in a terrorist attack around the world in the last 20 years, and you add to that every life lost in the Middle East since 1967, the 6-Day War, and you add to this every single American life lost in Vietnam and Korea, and every single American engagement since then--Iraq, Afghanistan, if you take all those lives, and you multiply it by two? That's the number of children who died of malaria every single year.
- Crazy creditsMentioned in the End Credits: "Produced with the assistance of the Department of Trade and Industry South Africa, who does not accept any liability for the content and does not necessarily support such content."
- ConnectionsFeatures Billy Elliot (2000)
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