Roe v. Wade

I'm actually quite surprised this wasn't the doing of Pure Flix or a similar company. Nick Loeb may as well be the new Fred Phelps the way he's brainwashing the easily manipulated.

The entire narrative is built on not just outright lies but also by an array of has-been talent who clearly needed money. You don't need to even be well-versed in the decision to know when the movie's spewing nonsense.

In a similar manner to last year's Never Rarely Sometimes Always (except that film is extraordinary, Roe v. Wade is extraordinarily bad), it's inspired me to give back... to Planned Parenthood.

For a movie with a tag line that promises "truth" coming out, this thing plays out like the screen writers did zero research and just speculated on what things might have looked like, from the perspective of a particularly ignorant alt right troll.

It's not just a bad movie, it's a bad movie filled with outright lies, misrepresentations and thinly-veiled political soap box speeches.

Unless you give them credit for having the names of the people involved correct, there's basically no truth to any of this, and if you're going to completely abandon reality, just make your own movie. Don't represent your utterly fiction as a docu-drama.

Also, these people actually WANTED to be associated with the likes of convicted felon Roger Stone and professional bully Milo Yianopolis. If that doesn't tell you all you need to know to pass on this, you should be ashamed of yourself.

"Roe v. Wade" follows Dr Bernard Nathanson (Nick Loeb), the narrator of the 1984 anti-abortion film The Silent Scream, from his first interaction with abortion in 1949 - when his girlfriend at the time terminated her pregnancy - to his conversion to a virulent anti-abortion stance in 1985." .

The 2020 "Roe v. Wade" is co-directed by Nick Loeb and Cathy Allyn. The writing credits go to those two and Ken Kushner. Vewers are subjected to 112 minutes of poorly staged treacly, unconvincing monologues, delivered by a motley crew of actors from a very bad script.

Among the veteran actors are Robert Davi ("Die Hard") as Justice Brennan, Jamie Kennedy ("Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell") as Larry Lader, Steve Guttenberg ("Three Men and a Baby") as Justice Powell, William Forsythe ("Cold Pursuit") as Justice Stewart and Jon Voight ("Midnight Cowboy") as Justice Warren Burger. Former Fox news personality Stacey Dash ("Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens") appears as Dr. Mildred Jefferson.

Dr. Bernard Nathanson, the lead, is portrayed by Nick Loeb (Loeb is also the writer/director and producer). It seems to be Loeb's vanity project for personal and philosophical reasons.

The character of Larry Lader (Jamie Kennedy) convinces Dr. Nathanson, who is, at first, very enthusiastic about earning blood money by providing abortions on demand, to perform them. The script unwisely has Nathanson (Loeb) and the others in the room sing a song about abortion as follows: "There's a fortune/In abortion/You never bother/The real father."

None of the people in the scene can sing and Loeb can't act. The scene is excruciatingly bad, but it's not the worst in the film.

The writer/director/producer and actor are all Loeb. Loeb's tuneless off-key serenade was just a small taste of the bumpy road ahead. It was really a chore to get through the scene with the actor reading as though he were an unborn fetus.

Speaking of "determining when to bear children" and having a pro-choice right to determine what happens with your own body, there has been speculation that Nick Loeb's desire to make this film stemmed from his failed 4-year relationship with Sophia Vergara ("Modern Family"), which ended in 2014. (A year later, she would marry Joe Manganiello).

Vergara and Loeb, when a couple, froze her fertilized eggs, undergoing IVF together in 2013. In 2017 Vergara filed legal documents to block Loeb from being able to use the embryos without her written consent. Loeb fought for the right to bring the embryos to term via a surrogate. Recently, a California judge has permanently blocked Loeb from using the embryos without Vergara's permission. The entire dispute embodies, in a microcosm, the film's main theory about who should have total reproductive control.

Despite my Catholic upbringing, I think women deserve a choice in what happens to their bodies (and their eggs). The ultimate decision should be between the woman and her physician, with strict guidelines (as has always been the case), not a decision by a group of old white men like those portrayed in this film, or by just one party in an IVF scenario.

There really isn't a redeeming quality to this movie. The cast is made up of a bunch of Hollywood has beens who people long ago decided they didn't want to watch anymore because their content was almost as bad as this movie. Meanwhile, the story they seek to be telling is that Jewish people (they make a point to mention they're all Jewish several times) were behind abortions and were doing it for money, or simply because they're evil. I expect nothing less from the Catholic League though.

Just utterly trash and completely uninspiring. They're entire concept is simply "everyone lied to you!", "the Hollywood elite want to murder children!" And of course the classic "The rabi's want to kill children" I really just say clearly enough how anti-Semitic this nonsense is. From the fake scream video, to the buckets of gore, the representation of the Jewish community, and more... there is nothing here. It doesn't deserve one star, it deserves to be destroyed.

At the end of the movie reads a disclaimer "The persons and events in this motion picture are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons or events is unintentional". So what did I just watch?