If These Walls Could Talk

These Walls Could Talk (Original Title: If These Walls Could Talk) is an American television film, an episodic film, from the year 1996 was directed by Cher and Nancy Savoca ( parts 1952 and 1974).. The scripts written I. Marlene King, Susan Nanus, Nancy Savoca, Earl W. Wallace and Pamela Wallace. The main roles were played by Demi Moore, Sissy Spacek, Cher and Anne Heche. In 2000, a sequel was produced on women's love under the title Women Love Women (If these walls could talk 2).

Action

The film features the stories of three women who live in the same house. All three stories have the pregnancy and abortion on the topic.

Part 1: 1952

The nurse Claire Donnelly (Demi Moore), a widow, becomes pregnant after a night with her ​​brother. The abortions are illegal in this time. Donnelly asked the head nurse of the hospital, where she works, whether they know a person who could help her. The woman denied any first answer and asks her never to ask. Later she put Claire to a phone number.

The called woman first recommends a living in another town doctor, the treatment but would cost U.S. $ 1,000. Claire says she can not afford that. It is recommended that a person who lives in Donnelly's town and only $ 400 takes. The man takes before the intervention to the kitchen table, before, he does not wash his hands. It comes to serious health complications.

Part 2: 1974

The housewife Barbara Barrows ( Sissy Spacek ) has four children. Your adolescent daughter wants no other siblings because they fear not being able to go to college. Even Barbara wants to finish her interrupted studies. Although she has to give up to study the plans finally, she decides to have another child.

Part 3: 1996

The student Christine Cullen ( Anne Heche ) is pregnant by a professor, who considers it a self-evident solution of the problem to give money for the abortion. She turns to the specialized abortion doctor Beth Thompson ( Cher). The practice of Dr. Thompson is besieged by opponents of abortion that appeal to Cullen. One of the protesting women, Tessie, Cullen makes known with his own daughter, who already had several children.

Christine's friend and roommate Patti threatens, they would want nothing more to do with Cullen, they should abort the pregnancy. When the doubting Cullen finally decides to engage, Thompson is shot dead shortly after the operation of one of the opponents. Cullen calls for help, while Dr. Thompson dies in her arms.

Reviews

The film received good reviews that were the acting performances and screenplays. Above all, the script of the first part (1952 ) was praised.

Awards

The film was nominated in three categories for the Film Awards Golden Globe: Demi Moore and Cher as performers as well as the film in the category Best TV Movie. There were four nominations for the Emmy Award ( including those for the producers and for the cut ), two for the Golden Satellite Award ( for Cher and for Best Mini-Series ) and one for the Image Award ( for Jada Pinkett Smith).

The film won the Gold Apple of the National Educational Media Network. Hedy Burress was nominated for the Young Star Award.

Background

The film was produced in a time in which the dispute between supporters and opponents of abortion came to a head in the United States. It was an attempt to release the film until after the presidential election on November 5, 1996; Finally, the channel Home Box Office beamed at him from on 13 October 1996. Previously, he was shown at a festival in Toronto in September 1996.

Demi Moore has been widely praised for the courage to produce the film.

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