
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.
Fun facts
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Based on
Based on a true story
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Music
Music by W. G. Snuffy Walden
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Newton Thomas Sigel
Details
- Director
- Writer
- Alison CrossWriter
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 15, 1989
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- United States of America









































