juneebuggy
Yup this is a Lifetime movie. So its kinda cheesy but as usual it also sucks you in. I do remember this story in the news. Crazy, naïve teenagers all getting themselves pregnant at the same time because of a pact to stick together. I enjoyed Thora Birch as Sidney Bloom, the internet blogger who travels back to her old high school in Gloucester, Massachusetts to investigate the sudden rash of teen pregnancies. The teens give an accurate performance of angst and bad decisions and we also follow a school nurse (Camryn Manheim) who fights with administration.The townsfolk (and highlighted teen's Mum) were so ignorant in their thinking, raising money for more daycare at the school but refusing to offer a condom machine or even consider giving out contraception to students! 03.13
Paul Magne Haakonsen
I guess you have to live in or near Gloucester for this movie to be interesting, or have an interest in local politics for at least. All throughout this movie I sat with an empty feeling and sort of not really caring, because the events in the movie seemed stupid and didn't appeal to my interest in any way.The story is about teenagers apparently making a pact for them all to become pregnant and have children about the same time, so their children can grow up together, play together and become best friends, like the teenage girls themselves are. But being teenagers, they are not aware of the consequences and hard work being pregnant and having a child is. And the toll the consequences have on their families and the ripples in society of living in a small community.Some of these teenagers have little respect for themselves or their pregnancy, as they smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol. Plus their whole attitude to the situation was just infuriating. And the movie is based on real events, which can only make you think why some people are that ignorant. But, as I started out with saying, this appealed little to me, because I live nowhere near where this allegedly took place.As for the acting in the movie, well, people did adequate jobs, but I can't really say that any particular performance stood out. It was fairly blend and mediocre.I am sure that this movie have appeal for an audience who have an interest in events such as those portrayed in the movie. But for those of us who watch movies for a solely entertainment purpose, then "Pregnancy Pact" offers very little.
edwagreen
The picture is trying to depict that much more must be done to avoid teen pregnancy.We have quite a story going here with 4 girls in a rural Massachusetts town agreeing to become pregnant. They don't realize the consequences of their actions. In addition, their lives are dull and their goals in society are limited. Getting married and having kids is all they want. Sounds like a time when the thought of girls going to college was looked upon as ludicrous.We have a principal of a high school who really doesn't know or want to know what's going on until he confronted with the issue. A reporter, formerly from the town, returns and reveals to her ex-boyfriend, now wed with children and an assistant principal in the school, that she gave up their child, and did not abort it as she claimed.Nancy Travis is wonderful in the part of the mother, president of the council who is against intervention even when her own daughter becomes president.Serious subject matter is dealt with honestly, but more passion was needed here.
lwaldo25
*******CONTAINS SPOILERS******** Out of morbid curiosity I watched this movie knowing about the back story of Gloucester High School when CNN was reporting this story about the surge in teen pregnancies in the small town more than a year ago. I can and can't believe Lifetime would go to the trouble of making this into a movie, but then again Hollywood will buy anyone's story and make a movie out of it... "Octo Mom" coming soon!Other than the stereotypes portrayed (the religious right wing mom, the concerned liberal school nurse, the rebellious/clueless teens) really the only character I could get into was the blogger/reporter played by Thora Birch who infiltrates the group of pregnant teen girls to try to find out WTF is really going on. As her character transitions from being judgmental to becoming more empathetic, the message in the end is clear. If you are a pregnant young teen, regardless if you choose adoption, abortion or keep the baby to raise yourself, there are no easy solutions. If this movie in any way helps communities have more open discussions about all forms of teen pregnancy prevention, whether it be about abstaining or using birth control perhaps we will see a decrease in these teen pregnancy numbers once again. This movie, even though it was like slowing down in traffic to watch a car accident, definitely did not glamorize the realities of having a baby and if it helps to drive home the point in future sex-ed classes around the country, then maybe some good will come from its existence.
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