Take Care of Maya (2023)

• Year: 2023
• Released: 19 Jun 2023
• Country: United States
• Adwords: 1 nomination
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27542448/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/take_care_of_maya
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/take-care-of-maya
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: N/A
• Genre: Documentary
• Runtime: 103 min
• Writer: N/A
• Director: Henry Roosevelt
• Cast: N/A
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	8.0/10
	92% – Critics
	96% – Audience

Take Care of Maya Storyline

When nine-year-old Maya Kowalski was admitted to Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in 2016, nothing could have prepared her or her family for what they were about to go through. As the medical team tried to understand her rare illness, they began to question the basic truths that bound the Kowalskis together. Suddenly, Maya was in state custody despite two parents who were desperate to bring their daughter home. The story of the Kowalski family as told in their own words will change the way you look at children’s healthcare forever.

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Bound to get under your skin, if not infuriate you

As “Take Care of Maya” (2023 release; 103 min.) opens, It’s “February 24, 2021” as we are introduced to a guy named Jack. He muses “There is nothing that could prepare me for what I went through.” We then go back in time: Jack remembers meeting Beata, and eventually they have 2 kids, a girl and a boy. The girl, Maya, suffers from a strange illness when she is 9… At this point we are less than 15 minutes into the documentary.

Couple of comments: this is the latest documentary from director Henry Roosevelt (“Tough Guys”). Here he examines the phenomenon currently referred to as medical child abuse (a/k/a Munchausen’s by proxy). Jack and Beata bring Maya to the ER at Johns Hopkins All Children’s, and next thing we know the hospital calls in Children Protective Services, and things only get worse from there.. I mean, you have to see it for yourself because otherwise you won’t believe it. (The fact that Florida outsources its privatized child welfare service to a third party should be an INSTANT red flag, but hey that’s Florida for ya.) The results are as predictable as they are preventable. Families shredded apart? No worries. Lives destroyed? Who cares. I honestly don’t know how some of these people can sleep at night. This documentary is bound to get under your skin, if not outright infuriate you. Don’t say I didn’t warn you!

“Take Care of Maya” premiered recently at the Tribeca, to immediate critical acclaim. There is good reason why this documentary is rated 91% Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. It started airing on Netflix a few days ago, which is where I saw it. If you are in the mood for a medical=themed documentary that is equally heartbreaking as it is infuriating, I’d readily suggest you check this out, and draw your own conclusion.

Prepare to be very angry

This popped up on Netflix when I was looking for something to watch, other than the brief synopsis I didn’t know anything more. I live in Australia and had not heard about this case.

Wow… to say I was furious by the end is an understatement. I understand that the safety of a child is always paramount but the hospital and doctors not taking responsibility for their part in what happened is disgusting. I don’t know how they sleep at night.

I feel terrible for the Kowalski family and any family that has had to deal with what is obviously a flawed system.

As a race we have come so far, but as human beings we lack the compassion necessary to elevate ourselves to the next level. The society we have created is now out of control and it seems that money and power are our driver.

I am emotionally exhausted

Maybe the most gut-wrenching documentary I have ever watched, I feel like my heart is being ripped out of my chest. I was ugly-crying non stop halfway through until the very last second.

Obviously the fact that this story was documented to the tiniest detail, including all the heartbreaking video and audio recordings and notes made it so muxh harder but portrayed how incredibly serious and real this is. No matter how old you are, where you live, what you do, I seriously think everyone should watch this because Maya and her family deserve to finally be heard and I really hope they’ll get justice.