Movie

Roe vs. Wade

1989 · 100 min

A sober, issue-driven courtroom drama that traces a personal struggle through the legal system, feeling earnest and occasionally slow.

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.
How it feels: Earnest, melancholic and tense. Measured and needs your attention.
About: Justice, politics, gender, class
Content: Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
Note: Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

Your rating is saved. See your suggestions, or find titles like this one below.

Rate it, and Mesmero finds titles that feel like it. You do not need an account.

Add to a list: Roe vs. Wade

In the USNo streaming, rental or purchase options known.

In your watch list

More like this

Like Roe vs. Wade, but

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Full breakdown

Tone: earneststrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: justice
politics
gender
class
isolation
Places: big city
workplace
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: true story
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild