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Roe vs. Wade (1989)

Roe vs. Wade (1989)

Drama TV Movie
Release Date: 1989, May 15
Directors: Gregory Hoblit
Countries: United States of America
Production: The Mannheim Company, The Mannheim Company, NBC Productions, NBC Productions, NBC, NBC
Cast: Kenneth Tigar, Dion Anderson, Paul Lambert, Chris Mulkey, Amy Madigan, Holly Hunter, David Wohl, Kathy Bates, Stephen Tobolowsky, Sharon E. Smith, Glenn Morshower, Alycia Grant

Overview:

Holly Hunter plays a lonely, single, poorly educated Texan who finds herself pregnant with no means to support a child. To avoid giving up the child, she seeks an abortion. Denied an abortion in Texas the young woman hires a novice lawyer to plead her case in the US supreme court. Eventually the law is changed, but for the character it takes longer than nine months.

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