Poll Suggestion: Films on Abortion

@cinephile,

FYC,​ I think you should include lesser seen movies that are all about abortion over more well seen movies that have a single scene or have a more remote connection to the topic.

Vs.

Unplanned is a 2019 American drama film written and directed by Cary Solomon and Chuck Konzelman. It is based on the disputed 2011 memoir Unplanned by anti-abortion activist Abby Johnson. The film stars Ashley Bratcher as Johnson, following her life as a clinic director for Planned Parenthood and her subsequent transition to anti-abortion activism.

Saint Frances is a 2019 film where Bridget, a 34 year old, gets a job nannying six-year-old Frances. Bridget's unwanted pregnancy and abortion raise many complications.

Roe vs. Wade is a 1989 television film written by Alison Cross about the landmark 1973 United States Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade. It was directed by Gregory Hoblit and stars Holly Hunter and Amy Madigan.

Roe v. Wade is a 2020 American political legal drama film produced, written and directed by Nick Loeb and Cathy Allyn. It serves as a dramatization of the 1973 landmark decision of the same name, rendered by the U.S. Supreme Court on the issue of the constitutionality of laws that criminalized or restricted access to abortions.

Choices is a 1986 American made-for-television drama film starring George C. Scott, Jacqueline Bisset and Melissa Gilbert, directed by David Lowell Rich. It was originally broadcast on ABC on February 17, 1986. The film focuses on a 62-year-old judge who rethinks his opposition to abortion when he finds out both his 19-year-old daughter and 38-year-old wife are pregnant. When his daughter contemplates an abortion without informing her boyfriend, the judge immediately expresses his disapproval. He changes his mind when he finds out his wife is pregnant as well. The three are all forced to make important choices.

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Romanian: 4 luni, 3 săptămâni și 2 zile) is a 2007 Romanian art film with drama and thriller elements, written and directed by Cristian Mungiu and starring Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, and Vlad Ivanov. The film is set in Communist Romania in the final years of the Nicolae Ceaușescu era. It tells the story of two students, roommates in a university dormitory, who try to procure an illegal abortion. Inspired by an anecdote from the period and the general social historic context, it depicts the loyalty of the two friends and the struggles they face.

A Private Matter is a 1992 American made-for-television drama film based on the true 1962 story of Sherri Finkbine, a resident of Phoenix, Arizona in the first trimester of her fifth pregnancy. She was the popular hostess of the locally produced children's television show Romper Room.

@rubyfruit76​ 

I added everything except Cherry because I can't really add a film that is not yet released. If the film is released before the poll, I might add it.

@urbanemovies​ 

Lingui and 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days were already on the list.

@cinephile​,

Thanks, I realized that after the fact. I think you ended up with a very solid answer pool. Obviously, a very timely topic. Well done and congrats.

@Breumaster​ 

Maybe Waves?

@Breumaster​ 

I guess 24 Wochen should fit for the list.

@Breumaster​ 

I guess also would Blue Valentine

@Breumaster​ 

I'm gonna exclude Nymphomaniac. A single scene from the director's cut isn't enough. I'm also gonna exclude Waves, I have seen the film, I don't think abortion is really its subject.

On another note is worth saying that the Peyton Place novel, which I read last year, has a very important abortion as part of the plot. Unfortunately the movie version avoided the topic and turn that story into a minor misscarriage scene and then moved on.

Congrats