Country: US/GB/IND
Technical: col 121m
Director: Phyllis Nagy
Cast: Elizabeth Banks, Sigourney Weaver, Chris Messina, Kate Mara, Cory Michael Smith
Synopsis:
A sixties housewife needs to terminate her pregnancy because of a heart condition, but the conservative-run hospital will not sanction it. On discovering a female-run collective for desperate mothers, she eventually finds herself volunteering, telling her husband and daughter she is attending 'art classes'.
Review:
An at times gripping screenplay and sensitive direction produce this quietly effective film on the dilemma facing American women prior to the Roe vs Wade case. Banks anchors proceedings in a superb performance as the conflicted housewife and mother.
Country: US/GB/IND
Technical: col 121m
Director: Phyllis Nagy
Cast: Elizabeth Banks, Sigourney Weaver, Chris Messina, Kate Mara, Cory Michael Smith
Synopsis:
A sixties housewife needs to terminate her pregnancy because of a heart condition, but the conservative-run hospital will not sanction it. On discovering a female-run collective for desperate mothers, she eventually finds herself volunteering, telling her husband and daughter she is attending 'art classes'.
Review:
An at times gripping screenplay and sensitive direction produce this quietly effective film on the dilemma facing American women prior to the Roe vs Wade case. Banks anchors proceedings in a superb performance as the conflicted housewife and mother.
