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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Lions Gate
Salesrank: 14985
Released: January 29, 2008 |
| Our Price: $13.14 |
| Used Price: $12.95 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Maria Hernandez is a poor but beautiful 15-year-old girl who must scavenge food to keep herself and her elderly godmother alive. When her godmother dies she becomes the ward of Don Fernando de la Vega. Unfortunately for Maria her presence is greatly resented by Victoria de la Vega and her niece Soraya Montenegro. Maria finds herself falling in love with the handsome but drunken son of the house Luis Fernando arousing the jealousy of Soraya. He soon falls in love with her as well and asks her to marry him. But when he witnesses an innocent embrace between Maria and his brother Vladimir he is convinced that Maria is being unfaithful even believing that the baby she's carrying isn't his. Insane with grief Maria gives up their child for adoption. Though Luis Fernando returns and they adopt a child together she never loses hope of finding her lost son. But if that weren't enough she also must contend with the obsessed Soraya who believes Maria "stole" Luis Fernando from her.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: LATIN/TELENOVELA Rating: PG UPC: 000799469521 Manufacturer No: 22435
Maria La del Barrio Reviews:
Pretty Good but butchered up!!! 
2009-06-19 - It was pretty good becuase it included important details as when Maria went insane and how she gave her baby away, but the soap had more in to it. As musical included on the original version and when she gave money to help the people in the barrio. Those were good things too!!!
Espactacula!!! 
2009-06-17 - Estoy deacuardo que cortaron muchisimas partes de la novela ariginal. Pero aun asi, pienso que es una excelente Telenovela que no debe faltar en cada uno de los hogares.
Para todas las personas que siguen la trayectoria de la emperatriz de la belleza, no pueden faltarles este dvd de coleccion de las Marias.
Solo espero que en un futuro Televisa pueda sacar en dvd absolutamente todas las telenovelas protagonizadas por Thalia pero de principio a fin.
Se que suena como un imposible, ya que todas han sido un poco extensas y tomaria horas y horas para poder verlas; pero pienso que los que conocemos la calidad del trabajo de todo lo que hace Thalia pagariamos el precio que fuera por tenerlo en nuestras manos.
Pretty Good
2009-06-04 - Well, the whole series and a good price. There are english subtitles but it would be better if there was english voices too.
Maria La Del Barrio (Butchered Edition) 
2009-01-19 - I remember watching this Telenovela with my mother, aunts, and grandmother back when it first aired because of its sensationalism and plot. Wanting to relive those moments of my childhood by buying the DVD and watching it caused me only disappointment. Upon watching the first episode, I noticed that some serious editing (cropping) was done to the DVD version. Clearly for timing purposes. That was hard enough to overlook as it is, but then I noticed that the original Score to Maria La Del Barrio was not used. In fact, the DVD version is dubbed with some different musical score over the original score and it all sounds ridiculous. In some scenes you have the original musical score playing, with the DVD score playing even louder on top of that to cover the original score for what I imagine is copyright reasons, and then you have the actors voices that you can hardly make out due to the two musical scores playing on top of each other. The entire DVD set comes off as extremely cheap from the marvel that it once was. It was a serious disappointment for those of us that have seen the GREAT ORIGINAL version of this excellent story. If you can overlook the time editing and horrible dubbing that was done to this DVD set, then perhaps you can enjoy it as much as the rest of us have enjoyed the original. I would never ever recommend anyone to purchase this, and would recommend to just wait and watch it when it reruns on latin american networks.
DON'T BUY IT - IT'S NOT A COMPLETE EDITION 
2008-07-31 - Do not buy this DVD unless you are okay with the fact that the sound quality was poor and that the DVD does not contain the whole series. They chopped it down to a point where it is barely understandable.
