Advantages: Can educate teenagers about pregnancy Disadvantages: is very predictable, acting not great.
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Fifteen & Pregnant
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This is a film based on a true story.
Tina Spangler (Kirsten Dunst of Spiderman, Mona Lisa Smile fame) is a 15 year old schoolgirl who finds herself pregnant after making love to her boyfriend Ray (Daniel Kountz) Before he finds out she is pregnant with his child he dumps her with the excuse he needs to spend more time concentrating on his football.
Her parents are separated and she has a younger ... ...all seem to be reaching out for attention in some way. Her mother (Park Overall) is struggling to raise her family. Her family is falling to bits around her and everyone seems to be against the idea of her keeping her baby. But that is what she decides to do!
Her best friend Laurie is 18 (also a teenage mum to 2 yr old Alison) asks her to consider adoption/abortion as she knows how tough it can be being a single teenage mum, but Tina is 100% against ...
missy0303 29.01.2006
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Advantages: Based on a true story - makes you think Disadvantages: Not the best film I've seen Kirsten Dunst in
This 1997 made for TV drama, sees a young Kirsten Dunst as 15 year old Tina Spangler. Tina finds out that she is pregnant at 15 years old - unfortunately her boyfriend abandons her and so she is left alone. She turns to her mother for help and support. Tina has to decide what to do - keep the baby or have an abortion. She makes the decision to keep the baby, much to her siblings' embarassment and against her mother's wishes. This is already a troubled ... ...affair and he decides to move out of the family home. Tina finds that as her stomach grows, her friends at school begin to drift away. However, she makes a new friend Laurie who had a baby two years earlier (when she was 17). Laurie not only shows her how hard and exhausting teen motherhood can be, but she also shows her what she can look forward to. This is a moving story, that shows the courage of one young girl who goes against her family and ...
sarahbooke 17.05.2005
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Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
Production Year: 1995 - Drama - Director: Ang Lee - Original Language: English - Classification: Universal - Starring: Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, Greg Wise, Hugh Laurie, Robert Hardy
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