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Check out an exclusive scene from Unpregnant , out on HBO Max on September 10, below: Let us slide into your DMs. When IndieWire spoke to Goldenberg earlier this summer (just as she was celebrating the imminent release of her long-gestating “Valley Girl” remake), the filmmaker was effusive about the film, and intent on making sure its comedic bonafides are center stage. The film, based on the novel of the same name, tells the story of Veronica, a pregnant 17-year-old girl, and her friend Bailey, as they go on a wild and wacky road trip from Missouri to New Mexico so that Veronica can get an abortion. I’m thrilled to be getting that one out in the world.”. An example of a mainstream filmmaker successfully embracing morally complex issues, including abortion, is Knocked Up director Judd Apatow, who has made a career of wrapping moral debates in his signature raunchy humor. Check out the first trailer for “Unpregnant” below. Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. Unpregnant: Trailer 1. ‘Unpregnant’ Trailer: Haley Lu Richardson and Barbie Ferreira Go on an Unplanned Road Trip, The Quarantine Stream: ‘Unpregnant’ is One of 2020’s Best Hidden Gems, A Complete List of All the Original Shows and Movies in Development at HBO Max, ‘UNpregnant’ Will Be an HBO Max Original Movie Starring Haley Lu Richardson, ‘Five Feet Apart’ Trailer: Haley Lu Richardson and Cole Sprouse Are Going to Make You Cry. Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news!
The Unpregnant trailer, which boasts such cringe-worthy dialogue as “it’s my life, my choice” and the insipid tag line “when life gets off track, forge your own path,” makes clear the popular 2007 approach of entertaining adults with moral complexity is now abandoned in favor of indoctrinating kids with extremist agitprop.
The commercial and critical success of these films was a result of their mirroring Americans’ extremely conflicted feelings on the subject of abortion.
Check out the first trailer for “Unpregnant” below. Seventeen-year-old Veronica (Haley Lu Richardson) never thought she’d want to fail a test—that is, until she finds herself staring at a piece of plastic with two solid pink lines. Think Bing Crosby and Bob Hope with their numerous “road to” musical comedies of the ’40’s and ’50’s… except in Unpregnant, Crosby and Hope are teenage girls crossing state lines to get an abortion. This is a poor message to send out to impressionable young girls. Tinsel Town is no longer interested in connecting with as wide an audience as possible, but rather prefers to signal its self-professed virtue with cultural propaganda that directly targets underage girls, while preaching to the minority of pro-abortion zealots in their midst. A 17-year old Missouri teen named Veronica discovers she has gotten pregnant, a development that threatens to end her dreams of matriculating at an Ivy League college, and the career that will follow. Follow him on Twitter @MPMActingCo. Posted on Wednesday, August 12th, 2020 by Hoai-Tran Bui. And if the trailer is any indication, fans are in for an intense, wild ride.
Juno also garnered four Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress, while winning for Best Original Screenplay.
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The debate is about the extremes, and that’s not where the public is.”. Browse more videos. He is also the host of the popular cinema podcast Looking California and Feeling Minnesota. Like HBO Max on Facebook: http://bit.ly/HBOMaxFacebook, Follow HBO Max on Twitter: http://bit.ly/HBOMaxTwitter, Follow HBO Max on Instagram: http://bit.ly/HBOMaxInstagram, HBO Max is WarnerMedia’s direct-to-consumer offering with 10,000 hours of curated premium content. UNPREGNANT Trailer 2020 Drama, HBO Max. Polling shows that a majority of Americans are pro-choice in some form, but as Barbara Carvalho of Marist Poll told NPR, “People do see the issue as very complicated, very complex.
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Unwilling to turn to her boyfriend, her best friend, and her super religious parents, Richardson’s Veronica turns to her former best friend (Barbie Ferreira) who begrudgingly embarks on a 1,000-mile road trip to an abortion clinic. “Unpregnant” puts a humorous spin on a tough, timely topic, but promises to do it with a generous dash of humor. Like one homeskillet before her, Haley Lu Richardson plays a teen who finds herself facing one doodle that can’t be undid: a positive pregnancy test. If there's a Covid-19 economic collapse, this will get much worse, In the Pentagon and China’s propaganda wars, greedy Hollywood is a happy helper for both – the people and art are the victims, Making great movies in Hollywood is difficult. It seems impossible to make a comedy out of an abortion, but Unpregnant is just the latest film to find humor in the serious situation. 2020 has been a banner year for decidedly pro-abortion films with Unpregnant, the critically acclaimed drama Never Rarely Sometimes Always and the indie dramedy Saint Frances, which all have an amoral attitude toward abortion, all being released. It is easy to see why pro-life advocates are up in arms over Unpregnant, as the trailer makes the film appear to be a piece of pro-abortion agitprop specifically designed to antagonize them by making light of abortion and demonizing Veronica’s Catholic parents as “Jesus freaks.”. The film hits HBO Max on September 10. Unpregnant is the controversial new abortion buddy comedy movie set to premiere on HBO Max on September 10. Richardson taps into her comedy chops for Unpregnant alongside Euphoria breakout Barbie Ferreira, who plays the uncouth foil to Richardson’s type-A student. 'Luxor' Trailer: Andrea Riseborough Is Gripped by Trauma and Love in an Ancient Egyptian City, 'I Carry You With Me' Trailer: Love Crosses the Mexican Border in Heidi Ewing's Gay Romance, How to Watch the First Biden-Trump Presidential Debate, Spring 2020 Preview: 20 Must-Watch TV Shows, just as she was celebrating the imminent release of her long-gestating “Valley Girl”. HBO Max is continuing to round out its original film programming, adding a fresh new comedy from “Valley Girl” remake filmmaker Rachel Lee Goldenberg and rising stars Haley Lu Richardson and Barbie Ferreira to its upcoming slate. Stream Unpregnant, starring Haley Lu Richardson and Barbie Ferreira September 10 on HBO Max. Fun Movie. Notice I described these films as ‘pro-abortion’ and not ‘pro-choice’, and that is because pro-choice implies a grappling with the moral gravity of the abortion decision, whereas pro-abortion removes any moral dimensions at all, and reduces abortion to being akin to getting a nose piercing. As Hollywood’s cultural politics become ever more strident, Apatow’s formula, which has made him a gazillionaire, will become anathema in the movie industry and “get woke, go broke” will most assuredly be made manifest in La La Land. If the film sounds a bit like a light-hearted spin on Eliza Hittman’s recent indie gem and Sundance standout “Never Rarely Sometimes Always,” that’s not entirely off-base. “It’s a comedy about two teen girls who go on a thousand-mile road trip to get an abortion. Trailer for Unpregnant, starring Haley Lu Richardson, Barbie Ferreria, Sugar Lyn Beard, Ramona Young, Meg Smith, Giancarlo Esposito.
UNPREGNANT Trailer 2020 Drama, HBO Max.
Privacy Policy / Cookie Policy. Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Maybe when Unpregnant comes out, we’ll discover that it’s a terrific film and more morally complex than its trailer suggests… or maybe it is the canary in the cultural coalmine reflective of how the new, grotesquely woke Hollywood is desperate for its cancer of vapid amorality and decadent depravity to metastasize to the next generation of girls and young women. There’s something oddly charming about the trailer for Unpregnant, which stars one of our favorite rising indie darlings Haley Lu Richardson (Columbus), who continues to convince me that she deserves to be a star. The film also stars Alex MacNicoll, Breckin Meyer, Giancarlo Esposito, Sugar Lyn Beard, pop star Betty Who, Mary McCormack, Denny Love, Ramona Young and Kara Royster. Stream High-school student Veronica finds out she’s pregnant and reaches out to her ex-best friend Bailey for help. In the 13 years since Juno, Knocked Up and Waitress hit the big screens, Hollywood has abandoned the nuance and dramatic complexity of Americans’ view of abortion in favor of the extremist pro-abortion message of Unpregnant. Directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg.
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