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Summary The loss of their sons to malaria bring together American Mary Morgan (Hilary Swank) and British Martha O'Connell (Brenda Blethyn) to help and raise awareness of the disease.
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Mary and Martha
Season 1 Premiere: Mar 1, 2013
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Summary The loss of their sons to malaria bring together American Mary Morgan (Hilary Swank) and British Martha O'Connell (Brenda Blethyn) to help and raise awareness of the disease.
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
67
67% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
33% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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HBO subscribers thereby are the beneficiaries of a film with star power and staying power. It won’t surprise you with its outcome--or for the most part, how it gets there. But it may well have more of an impact than anticipated.
The actresses' chemistry makes up for an earnest predictability in the storytelling.
In heart-tugging fashion, writer Richard Curtis and director Phillip Noyce frame the duo's attempts to raise awareness about this preventable disease [malaria].
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.
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.... But the scenes in which the two actresses are together have some real power.
Essentially, Mary and Martha operates like an EZ-to-read Lifetime movie with HBO production values.
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Production Company:
- Working Title Television
- HBO Films
- NBC Universal Television
- British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Initial Release Date: Mar 1, 2013
Number of seasons: 0 Seasons
Rating: TV-PG
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Awards
Humanitas Prize
• 1 Nomination
