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If These Walls Could Talk
A powerful, intimate portrait of three women living in the same house during different eras who all face unplanned pregnancies. The vignettes follow a recently widowed nurse struggling to take control of her life in the early 50s, a mother of four balancing raising a family and maintaining a career in the 70s, and a student making a difficult decision with the help of one woman that will change the course of both their lives in the 90s.
Release : | 1996 |
Rating : | 6.9 |
Studio : | HBO Films, Moving Pictures, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Construction Coordinator, |
Cast : | Demi Moore Shirley Knight Catherine Keener Jason London CCH Pounder |
Genre : | Drama TV Movie |
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Best movie of this year hands down!
Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.
This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.
The film may be flawed, but its message is not.
Pure propaganda, and this is another one of those films that really lay it on thick as a Kansas City steak.Imagine having sex and then becoming pregnant. What a notion eh?What an original idea.The problem with this is why should an innocent die because a woman does not have the decency to have the baby one way or another.Most of the time a woman has sex and thinks that the answer to everything is the taking of a life of a child.The child has no say in the matter.The child has no rights.I do not care who tries to make the act of murdering a baby in a womb cool or chic,it is NOT.Cher with her misguided pathetic life.Cher pretending to be a doctor who is telling the woman I care about you and I know how hard this is for you.Bull!Demi Moore with her messed up life.Demi Moore is a great example for American womanhood.Sissy Spacek who is not as screwed up acting as most Hollywood women,but she is wrong.Her character decided to keep her baby and not to destroy the baby.Thank you writers for advocating that it is a wonderful thing to have the child.I believe they wrote the baby being saved in the end in that story because a lot of people would not want to watch a movie to its end unless there was a ray of light in the dark forest of murder.If you believe that God made each and every living creature then don't watch this movie.It is painful.
All three of these short films are good, but the first is outstanding, largely because Demi Moore, whose performances I've otherwise never particularly liked, is so excellent. The point that she and Savoca convey - powerfully - is the sheer isolation, 50 years ago, of women who faced unwanted pregnancies. Moore spends most of the film, it seems, sitting alone in an empty house. Otherwise, she's enduring the company of her late husband's family, who see her only as their boy's widow, not as a human being. It's a frightening story that exerts a very strong empathetic pull.The dialog is spare; Savoca relies on Moore's face and body language to convey her terror, aloneness and feeling that things are closing in on her. There's very little "emoting" here, which makes Moore's character all the more forceful. The result is an exemplary piece of film acting.Of course, how much do we need in the way of tears and histrionics when we can see Moore attempting the old knitting needle cure, and later dealing with the aftereffects of a ghastly kitchen-table operation? This country's abortion laws created - and maintain effectively, in many places - a sort of hell for pregnant women. Thanks to this film, we can really understand a bit of what it was - and is - like.
Great movie, although it rather is a documentary... The abortion-scandal is well displayed and the director, producers and the cast can be proud of their work. The last story (with Cher) is based on real documentary-footage, so the things the anti-abortion-club does and the things these people say, were really done and said. A movie you MUST see if you are at all interested in the abortion-case.
I just watched this movie in my Women and Feminism class and at first I was surprised why the teacher would choose such a disturbing movie to be presented to a room full of teenagers. I understand the teacher's argument would probably be that those teenagers are most likely sexually active and therefore need to be informed of what the reality is really like but I know the very graphic scenes can instantly make an average person to stay or become pro-life and I guess that would be missing the point the film was trying to accomplish. I also think the film is saturated with way too many cliches and was desperately trying to fight off the stereotypes. The first one that automatically pops into my head is the character of Jada Pinkett who is black and very much pro-life. It's one to make her character such an advocate of life when statistically speaking most blacks than whites are getting abortions in this country (purely economic reason I suppose) but to make her Ann Heche's best friend was just too politically correct for me. Why not just make Jada Pinkett the pregnant one, wouldn't that be more true to what the stats indicate? Why being so PC?Another one, Sissy Spacek is 40 something and decides not to get an abortion. What a cliche! Do only teens and nuns get abortions? I think the makers of this movie should have handled such delicate subject more carefully by not offering so many cliches. A young student gets pregnant by having an affair with a married man, a young girl gets pregnant by a one night stand, a middle aged mother can handle another baby... Why didn't they mentioned pregnancy as a result of child abuse and / or rape? I just think the stories could have been a lot more interesting. Why so much of an hype at the end? We all know not every doctor performing abortions gets shot. It happens rarely. Why include that in the movie? One thing for sure, every man should see this movie at least one and then be forced to talk about his feelings on it.