Holly Hunter fights the whole damn system with a novice lawyer and sheer stubborn will.
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.
Acting
Holly Hunter's exhausted desperation is devastatingly real.
Writing
Makes legal procedure feel like personal warfare.
Director
Gregory Hoblit
Holly Hunter
Ellen Russell / Jane Doe
Amy Madigan
Sarah Weddington
Chris Mulkey
Ron Weddington
Terry O'Quinn
Jay Floyd
Stephen Tobolowsky
Darryl Horwath
James Gammon
Jimmy Russell
Dion Anderson
Bob Flowers
Kathy Bates
Jessie
Micole Mercurio
Ida Russell
David Wohl
Terry Bowman
Jerry Hardin
Daniel Benzali
Ken Jenkins
George Murdock
Supreme Court Judge
James Avery
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released sixteen years after the actual ruling, this TV movie aired as abortion access was already being chipped away across states.
Holly Hunter and Amy Madigan had just worked together on 'Raising Arizona'—Hunter campaigned for Madigan to play Weddington.
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