best movie i've ever seen.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

If these walls could talk (1996) is a TV movie made in an episodic way. This movie examines the issue of abortion throughout very different time periods. The first time period that this movie takes on is 1952, before Roe v Wade, when abortion was illegal. The star of this first of three episodes is Demi Moore, one of my favorite actresses. Moore does a really good job with this role. You can really feel her raw emotion and her pain. It portrayed back alley abortion that women were unfortunately forced to undergo if they wanted to terminate a pregnancy. The next episode is set in 1974, just about a year or so after abortion was legalized in the Supreme Court. Sissy Spacek stars in this segment, I love her and her movies, and she does a great job here, very realistic portrayal of a woman already with 4 kids, mulling over the tough decision of whether or not to have an abortion. The third segment is set in what was modern day when this was released, 1996. This portion of the movie stars Anne Heche, Cher, and Jada Pinkett. I really loved this portion especially because of its realisticness and it's very raw portrayal. Heche was just perfect in the role, loved her. Pinkett was hard to love because of how her character is, but nevertheless she did a good job. Cher, who is both a fantastic singer and actress, does a great job at playing one of the most caring characters I've seen. I loved how they showed the realities women have had to go through simply to have an abortion. In each section, they continually painted such a raw portrayal of this issue and I applaud the filmmakers for doing so. 9/10!

First of all, I want to thank fayR for calling a spade a spade: I'm pro-abortion, period. I believe all three women should've aborted. I gave this film a nine because, as testified to at I'mNotSorry.net, I don't believe it's true that all women who find themselves pregnant and don't want to be agonize over it; and neither do I believe that having an abortion necessarily affects a woman negatively or for a long period of time. For that I'm grateful for the character in the middle segment who admits to having felt relieved after aborting. Hard for me to believe that relief isn't the Number One sensation felt by a woman after undergoing a safe, effective abortion. No, it will not haunt you for the rest of your days, and this needs to be said.I also thank Merwyn Grote, though we sit on opposing sides of this issue, for submitting the only review that actually looked beyond the surface to see the message. The message I got, however, differs from the one Grotes saw: What I saw was the horror of conservative backlash. The only character who had access to a safe, legal abortion without getting mobbed or firebombed was the 1970s one. Our society passed through a blip of progressiveness that lasted about a decade, and that's what I find the most disturbing thing this movie showed. Every viewer should agree with that.Veering a little off-topic here, but I never understood why back-alley abortionists couldn't take the extra minute to wash their hands and disinfect their instruments. It's not as if it added to their overhead. What motivated this pond scum? Money? OK. But he already got paid! What harm could it have done to swab some alcohol onto the speculum? Tom in the 1950s segment was the one who deserved to be shot. Where are all the indignant anti-abortion voices when it comes to him and his ilk -- and don't think they don't still exist. The state of Wyoming has not a single legal abortion provider. Who do you suppose is performing abortions in Wyoming?

I find it bizarre that the comments on this film seem to think that the movie is pro-choice. In the first part the protagonist (Demi Moore) dies of a botched abortion. In the second part, the protagonist (Sissy Spacek) decides not to have an abortion. And in the third part, the protagonist (Anne Heche) is in the middle of having an abortion when her doctor is shot. Slightly traumatic. In fact the impression I get from the movie is that the two protagonists that decide to have an abortion are punished.Still, I guess if others have got a pro-abortion message and I got an anti-abortion message (yes I use pro-abortion and anti-abortion deliberately... let's call a spade a spade), then I think it's a movie well made. To be able to illustrate the dichotomy and confusion of any woman attempting to make a decision about this, and for viewers to take home different messages from it, would indicate that it's a job well-done.The movie is confronting, and disturbing.

I love this film because it tackles the issue from both internal and external places. Arguments are presented without bias, no matter what some may say. My dad even thought this was a Pro-Life film. I clearly disagree with him and believe it's got lots of Pro-Choice leanings. Demi Moore playing a nurse who is totally alone with an unplanned pregnancy was excellent. Her fear and aloneness in the not so fabulous '50s was so beautifully represented. And it's like the other comment said, her "family" treated her more like an extension of their dead son than like an individual person. I'd rather have no family at all than one like that. Sissy Spacek represented a choice, in a decade where choices were allowed. She had it so much easier than Demi Moore's character, yet her struggle and ultimate decision were just as hard in a lot of ways, maybe even harder. Anne Heche and Cher play two women who are up against Pro-Lifers who "love babies". It reminds me of a bumper sticker I once saw: "I love babies...born and unborn." Okay, great, but too many people who love babies actually hate KIDS. Once the child is no longer bald, pink and small, this passionate "love" turns into hatred and abuse of the worst kind. I know, I've seen it and I've lived it. Truly the most nerve jangling moment is at the very end of the film. Matthew Lillard is terrific as a psycho!!!I give this film an A+++++