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Title: If These Walls Could Talk (TV Movie 1996)
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| Demi Moore | ... | Claire Donnelly (segment "1952") | |
| Shirley Knight | ... | Mary Donnelly (segment "1952") | |
| Catherine Keener | ... | Becky Donnelly (segment "1952") | |
| Jason London | ... | Kevin Donnelly (segment "1952") | |
| CCH Pounder | ... | Nurse Jenny Ford (segment "1952") | |
| Kevin Cooney | ... | Dr. Kramer (segment "1952") | |
| Robin Gammell | ... | Jim Donnelly (segment "1952") | |
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Phyllis Lyons | ... | Audrey (segment "1952") |
| Aaron Lustig | ... | Tom (segment "1952") | |
| Dena Burton | ... | Young Nurse (segment "1952") | |
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Marie DeCicco | ... | Nurse Annie Ross (segment "1952") |
| Lorna Scott | ... | Louise (segment "1952") | |
| Mary Portser | ... | Margaret (segment "1952") | |
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Annie Weldon | ... | Nurse (segment "1952") |
| Vaughn Armstrong | ... | Painter (segment "1952") | |
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A trilogy of stories set in the same house, but with different occupants and spanning over 40 years, deals with various women and moral crisis over unexpected pregnancies and their choice of abortion. In 1952, when abortion was illegal, a nurse deals with her unexpected pregnancy and takes drastic measures to get one. In 1974 a family housewife with four children discovers that she's pregnant and decides she can't handle another child to raise. In 1996, a pregnant college student decides on an abortion, but doesn't realize the means to go through to get one. Written by Anonymous
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Rated R for realistic depiction of abortions, a graphic shooting and some language | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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13 October 1996 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Written by Randy Bachman, Burton Cummings, Jim Kale and Gary Peterson
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All three of these short films are good, but the first is outstanding, largely because Demi Moore, whose performances I've otherwise never particularly liked, is so excellent. The point that she and Savoca convey - powerfully - is the sheer isolation, 50 years ago, of women who faced unwanted pregnancies. Moore spends most of the film, it seems, sitting alone in an empty house. Otherwise, she's enduring the company of her late husband's family, who see her only as their boy's widow, not as a human being. It's a frightening story that exerts a very strong empathetic pull.
The dialog is spare; Savoca relies on Moore's face and body language to convey her terror, aloneness and feeling that things are closing in on her. There's very little "emoting" here, which makes Moore's character all the more forceful. The result is an exemplary piece of film acting.
Of course, how much do we need in the way of tears and histrionics when we can see Moore attempting the old knitting needle cure, and later dealing with the aftereffects of a ghastly kitchen-table operation? This country's abortion laws created - and maintain effectively, in many places - a sort of hell for pregnant women. Thanks to this film, we can really understand a bit of what it was - and is - like.