Starring:
Camryn Manheim, Madisen Beaty, Nancy Travis, Thora Birch Genre:
Drama
Inspired by a true story, the film explores the costs of teen pregnancy with
a story of a fictional "pregnancy pact" set against the backdrop of actual
news reports about teen pregnancy from June 2008. Sidney Bloom (Thora Birch),
an online magazine journalist, returns to her hometown to investigate the
sudden spike in teenage pregnancies at her old high school. Almost
immediately, she comes up against Lorraine Dougan (Nancy Travis), the head of
the local conservative values group and mother of Sara, a newly pregnant
15-year-old. Meanwhile, the school nurse (Camryn Manheim) tries to convince
the school to provide contraception to students to address the pregnancy
epidemic but is met with great opposition from the school and community. As
the number of pregnant girls climbs to 18, a media firestorm erupts when Time
Magazine reports that the rise in the number of pregnancies at the school is
the result of a "pregnancy pact." As the mystery unfolds about whether or not
"the pact" is real, Sidney soon realizes that all of the attention is
disguising the much larger issues that are at the core of the story.
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