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Unpregnant (2020)

Unpregnant poster
Directed by
Rachel Lee Goldenberg
Genre
drama film, road movie, comedy drama, female buddy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 44m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 328 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A pregnant teenager needs an abortion but cannot get one in her home state. She convinces her former friend to drive her across the country to a clinic in New Mexico.

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What happens

Unpregnant is a 2020 American female buddy road comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg, based on the novel of the same name by Ted Caplan and Jenni Hendriks. It stars Haley Lu Richardson and Barbie Ferreira, with Alex MacNicoll, Breckin Meyer, Giancarlo Esposito, Sugar Lyn Beard, and Betty Who. The film follows a pregnant teenager, Veronica (Richardson), who discovers that she cannot get an abortion in her home state of Missouri without her parents' permission and subsequently convinces her former friend Bailey (Ferreira) to take a road trip with her to Albuquerque so she can get one there. It was released on September 10, 2020, by HBO Max. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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