Roe vs. Wade

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Release date: May 15, 1989
Duration: 100 minutes
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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.

Starring

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Holly Hunter
Ellen Russell / Jane Doe
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Amy Madigan
Sarah Weddington
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Chris Mulkey
Ron Weddington
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Terry O'Quinn
Jay Floyd
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Stephen Tobolowsky
Darryl Horwath