Life with the Losers.As post-abortion theater, Knocked Up is encouraging. But . . . .

national review ^ | 6/4/07 | Kathryn Jean Lopez

[Rutles4Ever]

That was hilarious.

[hunter112]

What’s good about the movie is that its pro-life message is hip and potent and will be delivered to an audience that usually hears only the opposite.

Exactly. If this looked like it was produced by National Right to Life, or the Knights of Columbus, with a "G" rating, it would never get seen by the audience that needs this message the most.

[Badeye]

‘Alison Scott, played by Grey’s Anatomy beauty Katherine Heigl, gets .....’

...on my nerves. She apparently thinks she’s ‘carrying the cast’ at Grey Anatomy. She’s wrong, she got the job because she has breasts, and is quite willing to show them on tv.

Right now, she’s about to get written off the show because of her contract demands.

Finally, I’ve had enough of this unknown UK actress lecturing Americans about gays, gay rights, and that overweight, over wrought TR Knight.

No matter how many castmates they have him sleep with, I still crack up watching the show (my wife insists...eyes rolling) attempt to rehabilitate him after being outted.

(rant off)

[TightyRighty]

Yes but those tend to be on the bad side of town. During the summer time the theatre will have a day where you can take the kids to see a previously released movie for free so sometimes we’ll hit that.

[Borges]

What pro-abortion movies have there been recently?

[gondramB]

>>I also have to disagree with the assessment that this hit rock bottom in crudity. <<

I don’t think “rock bottom in crudity” is possible in films not made by John Waters.

[finnman69]

another review here with lots of spoilers

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/013/693bjobi.asp?pg=1

[finnman69]

cider house rules

[Borges]

That was almost 10 years ago! The British film 'Vera Drake' was 5 years ago and had a very eloquent defense of the pro-life position.

[fullchroma]

What pro-abortion movies have there been recently?

Good point. I don't know of any.

But culturally and socially young people get many strong pro-abortion/pro-choice messages especially if they go to college, a time when women are at high risk of getting "knocked-up." And the message tends to stick, especially after one's had an abortion.

[Neidermeyer]

I don’t know about “recently” ,,, but in the 1970’s and 1980’s every movie seemed to endorse abortion as a no consequence cure all and excuse for wild indiscriminant carefree sex ,, Fast Times ... had the female lead abort without a second thought and with the schoolmates deriding the father for not coughing up $$$ , Dirty Dancing played up the “back alley” theme and endorsed “real doctors” and once again no moral component ... At least “Fame” had the aborting woman grieve..

I guess to summarize every movie that touches on the subject seems to trivialize the decision and make it acceptable.. whether that is a function of storytelling where a pregnancy becomes nothing but a plot twist to be reconciled or if it is just indicative of the Hollywood mindset... either way it is refreshing to see that at least one movies plot poo-poo’s the thought..

[Borges]

I was just watching ‘Fast Times’ last night! As you say that was a while ago (25 years actually). ‘Roe vs Wade’ has since been absorbed by the culture and is rarely celebrated. A good ratio to obvserve is the number of delivery room scenes (usually played for comic effect) to abortions (usually played for tragedy). There are much more of the former than of the latter in American movies these days and that’s been the case for quite a while.