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(2022, dir. Phyllis Nagy, w/ Elizabeth Banks, Sigourney Weaver, Chris Messina)
Call Jane will finish at approximately 2:24pm.
August 1968, Chicago. Suburban lawyer’s wife Joy learns that if her pregnancy continues, she could die of heart failure. But in Illinois, abortion is considered a felony homicide. Her request for a therapeutic abortion denied, Joy follows the advice of the mysterious flyers hailing anxious women in her predicament: “Call Jane.” Soon, she finds herself drawn into the underground Jane Collective and, with her feminist consciousness awakened, she joins the Janes in helping women end unwanted pregnancies safely. (IMDB)