Stephanie Zacharek (szacharek) reviews 'Call Jane': 'The film, despite its heavy subject, has a bright, vibrant energy. It’s not so much optimistic as galvanizing'
dramas about the old days of illegal—and dangerous—abortions are no longer just shivery recollections about how things used to be. They’ve becomea drama inspired by a real-life network of activists: the Janes, a group of women in late-1960s and early-’70s Chicago who organized in secret to provide safe abortions for women in need. But the film, despite its heavy subject, has a bright, vibrant energy. It’s not so much optimistic as galvanizing.
Elizabeth Banks plays Joy, a sunny, upper-middle-class housewife with a husband, Will , who’s on the rise at his law firm and a teenage daughter, Charlotte , just on the cusp of adulthood herself. Joy also happens to be pregnant, a development she and Will are happy about—until they learn that going through with the. Her obstetrician goes to the board of his hospital—an all-male group arranged around a table like a tribunal—and requests approval for a therapeutic termination.
Her options shrinking, Joy tries the back-alley route, but the atmosphere is so dismal and scary she can’t go through with it. In her lowest moment, she catches sight of a discreet-looking mimeographed flier: “Pregnant? Anxious? Need help? Call Jane.” She dials the number, not realizing she’s opening the door to a future she couldn’t have imagined for herself—not just as a woman who will have terminated a pregnancy, but as one who will help others do the same, safely if not legally.
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