#CALL JANE

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Call Jane (2022) dir. Phyllis Nagy

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Call Jane

Continuing on my journey through Cory Michael Smith's filmography. So far:

Utopia

Gotham

Incomplete

Transatlantic

Next up, is Call Jane with Sigourney Weaver and Elizabeth Banks. This movie is set in 1969-1970 hence the AMAZING hairstyle. But he's great (as usual) and is kind of a mix of Nygma (Gotham) and Thomas (Utopia). It's a pretty good movie and I recommend it.

(also, shirtless scene...we're all winners here...)

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This was a time [the 1960s] when people "barely spoke about sex, how women's bodies functioned or even how people got pregnant," Booth said.

…"We tell this joke about how the cops came in, saw all these women and said, 'Where's the abortionist?' You know, assuming that it would be a man," Scott said.

…On March 9, 1973, three months after the Supreme Court had legalized abortion in the US, the case against the seven women was dropped and their arrest records were expunged.

…Today, most of the surviving members of Jane are in their 70s and 80s, shocked but somehow not surprised by the actions of abortion opponents.

"This is a country of ill-educated politicos who know nothing about women's bodies, nor do they care," said Dorie Barron. "It will take generations to even begin to undo the devastating harm to women's rights."

Read the entire story behind the Janes:

Plus there’s a movie and a documentary!

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CMS characters as random McElroy quotes I've had saved in my phone for forever

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“Some Janes answered phone calls

and some Janes drove the car,

some Janes held a clammy hand

while other Janes

scraped unformed cells from love canals,

working in the dark.”

- Paula Rudnick, "Janes"

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Guess what!

Sigourney Weaver is a lesbian in this movie too

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Call Jane

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Call Jane (2022, dir. Phyllis Nagy) - review by Rookie-Critic

Call Jane is a perfectly respectable, if not so all-encompassing, timely drama about a problem that is unbelievably still a problem. Elizabeth Banks plays Joy, a fairly "normal" housewife living in 1960s Chicago, who finds out she has a terminal pregnancy and seeks to get approval for an abortion. The all white, male hospital board refuses, claiming that there is still a chance a healthy baby could be born. In her desperation, she stumbles across The Jane Collective, a real-life group of women who helped women who wanted abortions get safe ones. The movie itself is fine, Elizabeth Banks, Sigourney Weaver, and Wunmi Mosaku give great performances and, given the subject matter, it's surprisingly lighthearted and uplifting, if not a little white-centric. They do make an effort, mostly through Mosaku's character Gwen, to shine a lot on the disproportionate number of low-income black women that were effected by the lack of abortion rights at the time, but it is just one sequence, and overall Gwen feels more like a token character. Also, for what it's worth, Chris Messina also does a great job playing Joy's husband Will. Messina is a wildly underrated actor and I'm glad to see him still getting work. Abortion rights should not still be a timely issue, it is disgusting that it is, and it's disgusting that a film like this still needs to be made in 2022. A woman has the right to choose what she does with her own body, full stop.

Score: 8/10

Currently available to rent or purchase on digital (iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, etc.) and on DVD & Blu-ray through Lionsgate Films.

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Films Watched in 2023 - (4/???)

Call Jane (2022) - Phyllis Nagy (3.5/5)

It's a perfectly serviceable piece of historical fiction, but unfortunately not a ton that's going to stick in anyone's mind (not even awards voters). It's unfortunately topical, but that's not enough to carry you through some missing scenes, deliberate misdirects in the name of drama, and an ensemble with not much to do.

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The Best of 2022 - 10 movies (9/10)

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Call Jane (2022) Movie Review

Call Jane – ABC Film Challenge – Female Directors – C – Call Jane – Movie Review Director: Phyllis Nagy Writer: Hayley Schore, Roshan Sethi (Screenplay) Cast Elizabeth Banks (Power Rangers) Sigourney Weaver (Aliens) Chris Messina (Ruby Sparks) Kate Mara (The Martian) Wunmi Mosaku (Lovecraft Country) Plot: A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America when she…

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Découvrez le film « Call Jane » sur PlayVOD !

Plongez dans l'histoire poignante de « Call Jane », dès maintenant sur PlayVOD. Ce film captivant capture les luttes et les triomphes de femmes courageuses dans les années 1960. Ne manquez pas cette expérience cinématographique inoubliable.

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Attention Creative Folks!

There are some movies/tv shows I’d love to see more gif sets of. Some have none! I have no talent when it comes to making gifs. Help me out? If you post anything regarding these, please tag me! 😊

Movies:

****Carrie Pilby****

Hilary and Jackie

Emily Watson in Red Dragon

Call Jane

Within the Whirlwind

TV Shows:

******A Small Light*******

Emily Watson in Little Women (2017)

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*me at the club* so does anyone wanna discuss queer undertones in classic literature?