Unpregnant
2020 · Directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg
Original language: English
- drama
- comedy
The story
After discovering she can’t legally get an abortion in Missouri without her parents’ permission, teenager Veronica convinces her former best friend Bailey to take a road trip to Albuquerque to seek the procedure.
What it’s like
Sunlit road-trip comedy, with wide shots of flat interstate, gas-station fluorescents, and motel rooms lit in cheerful pastels. The camera stays close and mobile in the car, so the two leads' faces and reactions fill the frame, and the mood shifts easily between bright and wry. Its vibe is brisk, funny, and warm, with a bittersweet undertow about old friendships coming apart and being rebuilt. Two teenagers set out on a long drive across state lines, and the film's rhythm is loose and chatty, built on banter, detours, and small awkward truces. Its emotional arc follows two estranged friends slowly relearning how to trust each other. The intensity is moderate: profanity and frank talk about sex and pregnancy, some tense scenes with a menacing pursuer, and no gore. Violence is rare and brief. The abortion storyline is treated openly and without shame, though it is framed through humor rather than heaviness. It suits a lazy weekend afternoon, a comfort watch, or anyone who wants a funny, emotionally honest road movie about growing up, friendship, and choosing for yourself, with a hopeful, lightly melancholy finish.
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