Roe vs. Wade

Movie

Roe vs. Wade

TV Movie

Drama

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.

Date: 05/15/1989

Rating: 6.8

Cast: Holly Hunter, Amy Madigan, Chris Mulkey, Terry O'Quinn, Stephen Tobolowsky, James Gammon, Dion Anderson, Kathy Bates, Micole Mercurio, David Wohl, Jerry Hardin, Daniel Benzali, Ken Jenkins, George Murdock, James Avery, Paul Lambert, Kenneth Tigar, Glenn Morshower

Holly Hunter