"Did you know, that if you take every single person killed in a terrorist act around the world in the last twenty years, and you add to that all the lives lost in the Middle East since 1967 -- the 6 Day War -- and you add to that every single American life lost in Vietnam, in Korea, and in every single American engagement since then -- Iraq, Afghanistan... If you take all those lives and you multiply by two, that's the number of children that die of malaria every single year," James Woods gravely intones in "Mary And Martha." That this audience educating factoid comes during one of the climatic moments of the movie, should tell you everything you need to know about the intentions and storytelling choices in this sentimental, misjudged one-note clunker, that's yet another wide misstep by two time Oscar winner Hilary Swank. In the film, she plays the Mary of the title, an almost obnoxiously wealthy woman living in East Virginia, married to Bruce Wayne Frank Grillo, an entrepreneur with...
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