UNPLANNED | FAMILY MOVIE REVIEW INFORMATION FOR PARENTS AND KIDS

"UNPLANNED"
(2019) (Ashley Bratcher, Brooks Ryan) (R)

QUICK TAKE:: Drama: With eight years under her belt working for Planned Parenthood including as a clinic director, a woman has an awakening upon witnessing an abortion in person while also learning that her company is more about making money than helping women in need.

PLOT:

Abby Johnson (ASHLEY BRATCHER) is the clinic director of a Planned Parenthood center in a small city outside of Houston where she lives with her husband, Doug (BROOKS RYAN), and their young daughter, Grace (ANDEE GRACE BURTON). When she's called back to help run the ultrasound for an abortion that's to be performed, she's shocked to see the fetus react to the suction probe before being sucked from the womb. The story then flashes back eight years to when Abby is a college student who ends up recruited to be a volunteer at that same clinic. It's run at that time by the all-business Cheryl (ROBIA SCOTT) who's used to having to deal with pro-life protestors such as Marilisa (EMMA ELLE ROBERTS) from the Coalition for Life.

Undeterred by them and having had an abortion herself there in the past before her first marriage (that ended in divorce), Abby takes a job at the clinic working as a counselor, much to the chagrin of her pro-life parents, Kathleen (ROBIN DEMARCO) and Mike (ROBERT THOMASON), and then-boyfriend Doug. Working alongside staffers Megan (MAURA CORSINI) and Taylor (LEZL GONZALES) who also become her friends, she acts as an abortion counselor, eventually drawing the attention of another anti-abortion protestor, Shawn (JARED LOTZ), who's joined by Marilisa in running the pro-life organization, 40 Days for Life.

With Abby eventually replacing Cheryl at the clinic director, she finds herself ever-increasingly doing hard sells for abortions. But when she witnesses one of them firsthand and then sees that Planned Parenthood is all about making money by performing more abortions, she has a crisis of conscience and ends up at a crossroads in her life where she must decide what to do.

WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT?: Teenagers who are pro-life might show some interest, but it's unlikely many others will.

WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: R: For some disturbing/bloody images.

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