Amy (Hannah Deale) isn't living too happy a life, sheworks a dead end job at Randy's (Adam Ratcliffe) burger joint which she doesn't enjoy, and the little money she makes is mostly spent on her mother (Jennifer Herzog), a non-confessing drug addic who claims to need whatever she takes for medical reasons - and on top of that, mum is still successful in giving Amy a bad conscience about it. So when one day one of the regulars at the joint, Seth (Hayden Frank), asks her out, she grabs opportunity by the horns, and ultimately they go all the way - and frankly, one can't blame two consenting adults who are drawn to one another to have a little fun, especially since they're responsible enough to use a condom. Thing is, there's always the remote chance for a condom to break, and theirs does ... and Amy starts to panic. Of course, the panic only increases when pregnancy test after pregnancy test turns out to be positive, and she shows all the symptoms of pregnancy. Thing is, in the situation she's in, she finds herself unfit to have a baby, only augmented by the fact that she isn't on medi-care despite having a job due to a broken system. But that said, the state she lives in forbids abortions of any kind, so she's in a bit of a catch-22 situation - and situations like this lead to desperate acts ...

Now one can't but admire this movie for its very unique approach to things: The story as such is a straight-out drama, but it at least at times somehow plays like a horror movie, but above all else this is a piece of social commentary on a completely broken health care system made all the worse by reactionary policies. And what makes this film work is that it doesn't use any sledgehammer techniques to drive its point home but tell a story that is engaging enouch for its own sake, also helped of course by capable actors playing relatable characters - and the whole thing is an actually very worthwhile movie.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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