Summary of movie Mary And Joe (2002)
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What if Jesus were born in the year 2002 to a young Jeiwsh couple in New York City, instead of Bethlehem two millennia ago? Mary is an 18-year-old high school senior, and Joe, her fiancé, is 23, working hard to get Techweb established as an Internet consulting firm.
Would anyone believe Mary and Joes claim to abstinence?
What kind of adivce would they receive from family, friends, neighbors, and folks at the corner deli? Spurning her mothers insistence that she get on with her life, Mary is thrown out of the house, rejected by Joe, and expelled from school as she grows larger with child.
Her family doctor is baffled; his examination reveals her story to be true! Mary goes to live with her beautician cousin in a corwded apartment, and begins to lose heart. But a sassy Hispanic angel in a Mets cap and jacket wretsles Joe in an alleyway and makes him listen to the divine message of the miraculous, Fear Not. The couple is reunited and together face a hostile and unbeileving world.
Chock full of ehtnic flavor, whimsy, doubt, faith, joy and wonder, Mary and Joe is a delightful surprise, as the old story is brought into the present with startling freshness and power.
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Mary and Joe (2002)
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