Favorite Abortion Movie?
Favorite Abortion Movie?
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#1Favorite Abortion Movie?
Posted: 12/3/07 at 6:49pm
I have two:
Citizen Ruth
and
Vera Drake
Two movies that could not be more dissimilar, yet two of the best films on the subject with BRILLIANT lead performers and fantastic supporting players.
PEACE.
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#2re: Favorite Abortion Movie?
Posted: 12/3/07 at 6:51pmi always say, if men got pregnant, abortion movies would be a new genre of porn.
#2re: Favorite Abortion Movie?
Posted: 12/3/07 at 6:53pmVera Drake has some of the best acting of any movie EVER. Nicole Kidman WISHES she was that good
#3re: Favorite Abortion Movie?
Posted: 12/3/07 at 7:12pmIf These Walls Could Talk. Three very different stories from different eras with very different endings. It's one of my favorites.
Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!
#4re: Favorite Abortion Movie?
Posted: 12/3/07 at 7:17pm
Citizen Ruth
Peyton Place
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#5re: Favorite Abortion Movie?
Posted: 12/3/07 at 7:18pmIf These Walls Could Talk was good but Cher got wicked dramatic and fake at the end. i couldn't get down with that last bit.
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#6re: Favorite Abortion Movie?
Posted: 12/3/07 at 7:21pmI admire what was attempte in WALLS, however I felt the whole film was a little overly melodramatic and preachy.
PEACE.
#7re: Favorite Abortion Movie?
Posted: 12/3/07 at 7:23pm
Dude, she got all SHOT and SH*T. It's the only Cher movie where she dies. (Except maybe Chastity, but I could only stomach that once, so I can't remember.) I just can't take it.
Walls 2 was better. More girl on girl action.
Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!
#8re: Favorite Abortion Movie?
Posted: 12/3/07 at 7:26pm
i still think the ending to WALLS 1 was not real.
i will admit WALLS 2 was good though. the opening segment had me bawling like a baby
touchmeinthemorning
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/3/04
#9re: Favorite Abortion Movie?
Posted: 12/3/07 at 7:29pmY'all should see "Lake of Fire"...a documentary about abortion by the guy who made "American History X"...it's a really powerful film.
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Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#10re: Favorite Abortion Movie?
Posted: 12/3/07 at 7:34pm
"Lake of Fire" effed me up for weeks after.
#11re: Favorite Abortion Movie?
Posted: 12/3/07 at 8:02pm
Cabaret.
Sally Bowles's abortion marks the beginning of the end of the Weimar Republic.
#12re: Favorite Abortion Movie?
Posted: 12/3/07 at 8:08pmI CLAUDIUS - BBC mini series.
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#13re: Favorite Abortion Movie?
Posted: 12/4/07 at 3:34amMy favorite abortion book so far is Slammerkin.
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#14re: Favorite Abortion Movie?
Posted: 12/4/07 at 6:47am
Of the ones listed here, I've only seen the WALLS movies. Vanessa Redgrave is amazing in WALLS 2.
I haven't seen any of these others. I'll have to check them out.
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Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#16re: Favorite Abortion Movie?
Posted: 12/4/07 at 10:23amTHE OTHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT where she tastefully aborts her fetus in a bathtub.
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#17re: Favorite Abortion Movie?
Posted: 12/4/07 at 10:27amCiderhouse Rules
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blueroses
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/18/04
#18re: Favorite Abortion Movie?
Posted: 12/4/07 at 10:33amDefinitely Citizen Ruth. Laura Dern, Mary Kay Place...even Burt Reynolds was good!
WindyCityActor
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/13/03
#19re: Favorite Abortion Movie?
Posted: 12/4/07 at 10:40am
"Dumplings" from THREE...EXTREMES:
Hong Kong's Fruit Chan directs "Dumplings," in which an aging actress's obsession with recapturing her youth leads to an unnatural diet.
robbiej
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#20re: Favorite Abortion Movie?
Posted: 12/4/07 at 10:43am
I always felt WALLS was rather a dark and scary view of abortion...at least for the women having the abortions. I mean, (spoilers ahead), you have Demi Moore slowly bleeding out to death from a botched abortion in the first segment, then earth mother Sissy Spacek* valiantly deciding to keep her baby no matter how big the brood she already had, and then, of course, poor Anne Heche, freaking the f*ck out as Cher is gunned down in the middle of the procedure in the third segment (though it had a classic line reading of the words "I'm Jewish" from Oscar nominee Diana Scarwid). It all felt very DON'T HAVE AN ABORTION OR YOU WILL DIE!!!! No matter the actual intent.
WALLS 2 was infintely better, featuring a really rather broad, mature and involving view of lesbian issues from partner rights to the butch/femme divide to parenting. Really terrific film.
*Sissy Spacek, who seems to love having troubled fetuses, was absolutely spectacular in the HBO film A PRIVATE MATTER in which she starred as a Romper Room host who was pregnant with a thalydomide baby and had to go to Sweden or some such place to abort. Her breakdown with Aidan Quinn in the backyard was thrilling.
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Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#21re: Favorite Abortion Movie?
Posted: 12/4/07 at 10:46am
Sissy's breakdowns are always thrilling.
Although the original WALLS has an excellent perf from Miss Heche.
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~ Muhammad Ali
robbiej
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#22re: Favorite Abortion Movie?
Posted: 12/4/07 at 10:47amAnd wasn't Jada Pinkett (pre-Smith) her sassy black friend?
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#23re: Favorite Abortion Movie?
Posted: 12/4/07 at 10:49am
I agree, borstal...I remember thinking, "who is this girl?" Jada Pinkett? Not so much.
It's also the only good performance I've seen from Demi Moore.
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#24re: Favorite Abortion Movie?
Posted: 12/4/07 at 10:51am
Sassy and pro-life, too, wasn't she (in the movie)?
And yeah, the movie is sort of heavy handed, but I thought that was sort of the point. Women were dying before it was legalized and even after legalization women are still dying, although it's not the procedure they're dying from anymore. I don't know. Hamfistedness aside, it's one of the few unflinching looks at abortion to come out of Hollywood, I think.
This is tv, but remember when Ricki Lake had an abortion in that Betrayal/Merrilly We Roll Along-type episode of "China Beach"?
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