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Personhood

  • 2019
  • 1h 20m
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
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Personhood (2019)
Documentary

PERSONHOOD tells a different reproductive rights story - one that ripples far beyond the right to choose and into the lives of every pregnant person in America. Like a moment from the chilli... Read allPERSONHOOD tells a different reproductive rights story - one that ripples far beyond the right to choose and into the lives of every pregnant person in America. Like a moment from the chilling "Handmaid's Tale," Tammy Loertscher's fetus was given an attorney, while the courts den... Read allPERSONHOOD tells a different reproductive rights story - one that ripples far beyond the right to choose and into the lives of every pregnant person in America. Like a moment from the chilling "Handmaid's Tale," Tammy Loertscher's fetus was given an attorney, while the courts denied Tammy her constitutional rights. In this timely documentary, we see her sent to jail, ... Read all

  • Director
    • Jo Ardinger
  • Writers
    • Jo Ardinger
    • Nils Cowan
  • Stars
    • Tamara Loertscher
    • Cherisse Scott
    • Sara Ainsworth
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.7/10
    17
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Jo Ardinger
    • Writers
      • Jo Ardinger
      • Nils Cowan
    • Stars
      • Tamara Loertscher
      • Cherisse Scott
      • Sara Ainsworth
    • 1User review
    • 9Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 5 nominations total

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    Tamara Loertscher
    • Self
    Cherisse Scott
    • Self - Founder & CEO, SisterReach
    Sara Ainsworth
    • Self - Former Director of Legal Advocacy, National Advocates for Pregnant Women
    Freya Bowen
    • Self - Attorney, Perkins Coie
    Lynn Paltrow
    Lynn Paltrow
    • Self - Founder, National Advocates for Pregnant Women
    Keith Mason
    • Self - Founder, Personhood USA
    Farah Diaz-Tello
    • Self - Former Staff Attorney, National Advocates for Pregnant Women
    Cristina Aguilar
    • Self - Former Executive Director, Colorado Organization for Latina Reproductive Rights & Opportunity
    Diana DeGette
    • Self - United States Congress Woman (CO)
    Vicki Cowart
    • Self - President & CEO, Planned Parenthood of The Rocky Mountains
    Dondi Ellner
    • Self
    Gualberto Garcia-Jones
    • Self - Former Legal Analyst, Personhood USA
    Arthur Caplan
    Arthur Caplan
    • Self - Ph.D., Bioethicist, New York University
    Marge Loertscher
    • Self
    Cathy Alderman
    • Self - VP of Communication & Public Policy, Planned Parenthood of The Rocky Mountains
    Gina Millan
    • Self - Community Organizer, Colorado Organization for Latina Reproductive Rights & Opportunity
    • Director
      • Jo Ardinger
    • Writers
      • Jo Ardinger
      • Nils Cowan
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    8CubsandCulture

    The story itself is enraging but the documentary is a bit rote

    This is a well done investigation into an infuriating and outrageous legal situation. It doesn't do much to set it apart from other documentaries cinematically. I think it was the first time effort. It is professional but uninspired as cinema.

    That said the cases under discussion give lie to notion that the so-called pro-life movement care about the "unborn." Fetal personhood laws, in practice, are shown to be little more than excuses to punish women, deemed imperfect to be mothers. It is utterly Kafkaesque when a woman ends up locked up in solitary to "protect" the "unborn child."

    At one point a pregnant woman ends up in a legal proceeding she really doesn't understand and without any preparation. The kicker is her unborn fetus is given a lawyer while she is not. This sort of absurdity is present throughout the case.

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    • Release date
      • November 2019 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Personhood: Policing Pregnant Women in America
    • Filming locations
      • Washington, District of Columbia, USA
    • Production companies
      • Tandybrook Productions
      • Wanderhouse
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      • $325,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 20m(80 min)
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