Today over at MSN: I've reviewed Richard Curtis' one-off drama MARY AND MARTHA, starring Hilary Swank and Brenda Blethyn as mothers drawn together by tragedies involving malaria...
Mary and Martha is a 90-minute drama (also to be shown on HBO) that Richard Curtis wrote to increase awareness of malaria - a preventable disease that kills millions of children every year. As a figurehead for Comic Relief, Curtis has been involved with such issues for decades now, and this drama feels like a very clever idea. There are people who won't sit down to watch an evening's telethon or buy a Red Nose Day product, but maybe a fictional story tackling a real problem stands a better chance of reaching an untapped audience.
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