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Teenage Mother (1967)

Teenage Mother poster
Directed by
Jerry Gross
Genre
exploitation film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 18m
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This exploitation film shows what happens to a teenage girl who gets pregnant. It includes lessons about hygiene and a real birth scene.

educationaldatedclinicalsensationalizedgraphicearnestdidacticuncomfortable

What happens

Teenage Mother (also known as The Hygiene Story) is a 1967 American exploitation film directed by Jerry Gross and starring Arlene Sue Farber. It is about teenage pregnancy, hygiene and a graphic actualization of birth. It was billed as "The film that dares to explain what most parents can't." It marked Fred Willard's film debut. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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