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Overview
Holly Hunter plays a lonely, single, poorly educated Texan who finds herself pregnant with no means to support a child. To avoid giving up the child, she seeks an abortion. Denied an abortion in Texas the young woman hires a novice lawyer to plead her case in the US supreme court. Eventually the law is changed, but for the character it takes longer than nine months.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 15, 1989
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- NBC,NBC Productions,The Mannheim Company
- Cast
- Kenneth Tigar,Glenn Morshower,Stephen Tobolowsky,Kevin Cooney,Annabella Price,Holly Hunter,Jerry Hardin,David Selburg,Wendy Cutler,James Gammonand 30 more
- Director
- Gregory Hoblit
- Writer
- Alison Cross
- Producer
- Michael Manheim,Gregory Hoblit
- Cinematography
- Newton Thomas Sigel
- Music
- W.G. Snuffy Walden
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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