Jill Stanek has asked for a little help and I bet you couch potatoes are just the group to help.
Jill writes:
I’ve been asked to make a presentation on pro-life movies or movies with abortion as a theme or storyline.
I can think of Juno, Waitress, Knocked Up, Finding Nemo (the embryo scene in the beginning), 22Weeks, and Killing Girls.
Do you know of others? Someone, for instance, told me of a new release with a pro-life theme, but I can’t remember it.
Thanks!
So if you have one in mind, head on over to Jill Stanek and give her your pro-life movie suggestion.
There’s some really great ideas over there already. Click here for Jill.
April 8, 2009 at 12:54 am
‘Horton Hears a Who.” is a great movie. There is a line that is repeated multiple times – “A person’s a person no matter how small”.
April 8, 2009 at 1:04 am
“Come What May” is a name of a pro-life move that was set to come out March 17th. (I haven’t heard if it actually was released)
I did a blog post on my blog (Label: Come What May) back in the beginning of March when I heard it was being release later in March.
April 8, 2009 at 2:16 am
“Bella” !
April 8, 2009 at 2:26 am
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child in which Freddy tries to reenter the world through the dreams of a fetus! Even when the mother figures it out, she refuses to abort.
Okay, no chance in Hades this one’s making it into the presentation, but you did ask 🙂
April 8, 2009 at 2:27 am
What pro-lifer could possibly forget Bella?!?
April 8, 2009 at 3:27 am
two movies I have watched recently that come to mind are “Children of Men”, and “Gattaca”. The latter of which was totally underrated. the upside? Ive heard that many people who enter genetics in college are shown this film during their coursework.
April 8, 2009 at 3:42 am
Apocalypto (2006)
how human sacrifice affects society
April 8, 2009 at 3:43 am
Gattaca and Children of Men…
Thursday stole my thunder on that. I have a BA in philosophy and love both of these movies because of the issues they raise and the method is both simple and deep at the same time.
I saw “The Island” thinking it would be like Gattaca but it wasn’t It was a sad attempt at a comprise of pro-life and cloning.
I will say that on the bonus features of Gattaca there is a deleted scene of the mother asking what happens to the discarded babies in the invitro process… pretty straight forwardly. The doctor brushes her off saying, “These are only potential humans.”
April 8, 2009 at 6:52 am
I actually thought The Island was a great movie! There is a scene where they show pretty much the direct equivalent to abortion — very disturbing and sad. It’s worth a watch though.
April 8, 2009 at 7:44 am
August Rush. It isn’t about a “clinical” abortion, but it show the damage to a mother when she thinks she had a miscarriage.
April 8, 2009 at 11:31 pm
How about “It’s A Wonderful Life?” We see how George Bailey’s humble life made the lives of all around him better. Even though he wasn’t a big shot, he was an important person.
April 8, 2009 at 11:41 pm
On the science fiction side, there’s “Soldier”, the Kurt Russell flick about genetically-engineered soldiers. It’s older, but it struck a chord with the guys in my family (even after all these years) because it starkly contrasted a “strong” society with a utilitarian view of people and a society which values all human life.
April 9, 2009 at 12:42 am
I mentioned a few over at the Stanek site:
” I believe the film ‘Cabaret ‘ involves the female lead getting an abortion. The male lead, who begged her to keep the baby, leaves her because he cannot bear to be with a woman who killed her child. (He was willing to help her, even though, given her promiscuity, it’s doubtful that the baby is even his. ) The whole movie is set in Weimar-era Germany, and the abortion is shown as one more step down on the way to the horrors of Nazism.
There’s also the 1987 comedy, ‘Innerspace ‘, in which a “Fantastic Voyage “-type adventure is played for laughs. The character who is traveling in the tiny ship ends up inside the body of his girlfriend, and comes face to face with their developing child . Striking pro-life moment in a rather lightweight film. The movie ends with the wedding of the baby’s parents. ”
and
“I remembered another pro-life comedy – “Look Who’s Talking”. In that one, we get to not only see an unborn child develop all the way from conception to birth and beyond, but we also hear his thoughts, as voiced by Bruce Willis.
While it does not deal directly with abortion or unborn life to a great extent, I’d say the original film of “Yours, Mine and Ours ” is certainly life-affirming, not to mention hilarious. (Henry Fonda delivers one of my favorite movie lines of all time in this movie, ‘It’s not going to bed with a man that proves you love him – it’s getting up with him in the morning !’ ) (Unfortunately, the recent remake seems to have stunk to high heaven….) “
April 9, 2009 at 4:27 am
This is a great 15 min movie done for a contest, thoroughly prolife.
http://www.thedoorpost.com/hope/film/?film=420351f1aefa2b42b1772fe9d5cc044a