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Best movie of this year hands down!

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Good concept, poorly executed.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

To quote one of its fans: "ARTISTICALLY EXCELLENT. NON-JUDGMENTAL. POWERFUL. INSPIRING. TIMELY. NECESSARY" -- October Baby is none of these things. However it is "INCREDIBLE". There is not one part of this movie that is believable. Not only has no research been done as to how something like this might play out in real life, it seems to have been written by someone housebound since the 1970's after suffering a nervous breakdown. For example, our heroine Hannah, who is an adult, is diagnosed as having been a survivor of an abortion from a doctor reading her diary. Her adoptive father passed her diary to the doctor without her permission, because it's for her own good. Is her next step counselling, perhaps psychiatric help? Heck no, this is a Christian film. Road trip! And when I say road trip, I mean a painfully chaste road trip with a childhood male friend, who later asks her father's permission to date her. I said she was an adult, right? They are accompanied by his present girlfriend, who is of course evil. The implication is she, unlike our pure Hannah, would have an abortion -- hiss! The sleuths track down various professionals -- a police officer, a nurse -- who violate ethical standards to bring Hannah and her bio-mother together again. Because that's going to end well. Will she follow the example of her mother, who turns out to be not only another selfish villainess, but uptight AND A LAWYER? Or will she give up her college plans, marry her childhood sweetheart, and have babies, all 100% wanted. What do you think?

Starting off a little strangely for me, I hung with it and it developed into a well directed, sensitive film dealing with issues of ethics and morality, the search for meaning in life for a disillusioned young woman, quality friendships and relationships, and the struggle for existential justification. The acting was very high caliber, the language is mild, and the dramatic tension is well managed. Some information/secrets are withheld from both the viewer and the protagonist which deepens the value of the film's intent, and for those who like resolution in a film by its end, this one doesn't disappoint. A good movie brings a tear to the eye on occasion, and this one does just that. Like life itself, there is disenchantment, pain, persistent struggling, discovery, and finally forgiveness and the resultant experience of satisfaction with a willingness to engage life to the fullest. An optimistic yet believable story worth a look.

This is, literally, one of the worst movies I've ever seen - and I've seen Howard the Duck and Leonard Part 6...and compared to this, those movies were Oscar contenders. I wanted to abort MYSELF about 20 minutes in, because I saw where this film was going. But I stuck with it.Where do I start? The anti-choice/"pro-life" propaganda? The AWFUL Christian rock soundtrack that pervades the entire film? The complete and utter suspension of disbelief (or brainwashing) required to buy even the slightest detail in this film?The main problem with movies made by Christian people is that they structure them around the way the feel life SHOULD BE, rather than how it actually is. This movie is infused with the propriety of adults, when it's supposed to be about KIDS - Christian or not. A bunch of broke college kids on a road trip. Despite the fact that they embark on said road trip in a VW camper with the "untouchable love interest/good Christian boy's" cousin, who looks like the biggest stoner outside of Dazed and Confused...yet no sex, no smoking, no drinking, not even so much as a cigarette, because good Christian kids don't do those things...right. They talk about vegetarianism and baby turtles instead.And despite being "broke college kids", they buy multiple hotel rooms, because it's just too taboo for them to share a room together?! Really? Jesus doesn't want boys and girls to sleep together, even platonically?! That's not proper? I guess I'm going to hell then. Not to mention that the girlfriend of the love interest/good Christian boy is one dimensional and pure freaking evil! Yet despite his holiness, he chose her,over the oh so holy, mild mannered heroine of this tale. But of COURSE they don't have sex! She has to share a room with the leading lady with epilepsy, and MOCKS her for it! How Christian!But what really, really, REALLY bothered me about this film were the fallacies imparted concerning abortion. So I'm supposed to believe that this "doctor" agreed to perform an abortion on someone 24 weeks pregnant (TWICE the legal limit of 12 weeks), didn't notice the mother was having twins despite the exams and ultrasounds required before the procedure, and when attempting to abort the one baby he thought there was, only got an ARM?! ONE arm?! And this "doctor" then said "Ho-hum, this abortion's done!" NEVER HAPPEN. Lies and Christian, pro-life propaganda. BS.Though to back this up, the nurse (Roxy from Dead Like Me, an AWESOME show :() says that kind of thing happened ALL THE TIME with this "doctor". Also lies. Despicable, misleading, horrible lies, from a sect of people who give a crap UNTIL a baby is born - and then say "why'd you have a baby you couldn't afford?" when a woman requests public assistance. But I digress...What I found most detestable was the casting of an actress who had actually undergone an abortion to play leading lady's bio mother. An actress turned born again Christian, should I say. This, to me, was the most horrible, victimizing, cherry-on-top-of the right wing sundae that was this movie. Because I could feel her emotion, her regret, her guilt. These film-makers used this woman in the worst way a woman can be used, and true, she allowed it. But I feel for her. I don't begrudge her whatever comfort this movie gave her. But to me, Christians live in a world of "do as I say, not as I do." I would have rather seen this woman sympathize with girls in the same position as she was than take part in a movie that vilifies them.All this being said, I feel that, minus the propaganda, this COULD have been an awesome movie. It's a great concept, that I could have gotten behind, had it been treated with some dignity and truth. But Christian movie makers tend to Disney-fy everything to the extent where it's no longer believable. Your kids make mistakes, just like the rest of the us. You don't need to set an example. We sure aren't looking to you for one.

My wife had been wanting to see this film and it was only in theaters a few days so we rented it. The story was believable as was the acting. I found myself pulled into the story where I really liked some characters and was against others. It deals with real life situations, relationships, and emotions that real people experience... and it was done tastefully and honestly. There were a number of real-life lessons that I walked away with, and it does make you think about real life.Possible Spoiler - I was happy when Jason realized that Alanna wasn't really worth the drama she created; Bmac made me remember myself in high school and college (to some degree); you CAN get cops to give you a break sometimes (personal experience); glad Jacob realized you can't completely control your children (even when you want to)... The biggie was the power of forgiveness! ( I think the priest got it right) I was surprised when it was rated PG-13. I hear more graphic thematic material in TV commercials. I don't recall any language that was vulgar or profane. Also, there were no graphic pictures or scenes. PG-13... Really?I'm sure that given 10X more money, the movie could have been improved technically, but I thought it was great!