Synopsis of The Pregnancy Pact Story Movie Starring Thora Birch
The Pregnancy Pact Synopsis: Inspired by a true story, the film explores the costs of teen pregnancy with a story of a fictional ‘pregnancy pact’ set against the backdrop of actual news reports about teen pregnancy from June 2008. Sidney Bloom (Thora Birch), an on-line magazine journalist, returns to her hometown to investigate the sudden spike in the pregnancy pact story teenage pregnancies at her old high school.
Almost immediately, she comes up against Lorraine Dougan (Nancy Travis), the head of the local conservative values group and mother of Sara, a newly pregnant 15-year-old. Meanwhile, the school nurse (Camryn Manheim) tries to convince the school to provide contraception to students to address thepregnancy epidemic but is met with great opposition from the school and community.
As the number of pregnant girls climbs to 18, a media firestorm erupts when Time Magazine reports that the rise in the number of pregnancies at theschool is the result of a “pregnancy pact“. As the mystery unfolds about whether or not “the pact” is real, Sidney soon realizes that all of the attention is disguising the much larger issues that are at the core of the story.
The Pregnancy Pact stars Camryn Manheim, Nancy Travis, and Thora Birch.You may recall the 2008 ‘pregnancy pact’ scandal involving 17 girls at Gloucester High School in Massachusetts that reportedly agreed to get pregnant at the same time. The high school’s principal, Joseph Sullivan, exposed the story during an interview with TIME magazine claiming the girls planned thepregnancies and planned to raise the children together.
The pact has been denied by the real life teen moms, but the pregnancies happened. Inspired by the bizarre story, The Pregnancy Pact follows Sidney Bloom (Thora Birch), a magazine journalist, who comes back to her hometown to investigate the surge in teenage pregnancies at her old high school. She butts heads with Lorraine Dougan (Nancy Travis), the head of the local conservative values group and mother of Sara, a pregnant 15-year-old.
The school nurse (Camryn Manheim) tries to convince the school to provide contraception to students to curb the pregnancy epidemic but is met with great opposition from all sides. To make matters worse, TIME Magazine reports that the rise in the number of pregnancies at the school is due to the so-called “pregnancy pact,” and a media circus erupts around the small town.
It’s heavy stuff, and a topic most parents would prefer to sit back and just cross their fingers about, but it has to be addressed. No matter what your beliefs or values, watch this one with your kids. The facts are, teenagepregnancy is on the rise for the first time in over a decade. Listen, really listen, to what your kids think about the movie, and you both may learn something.
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Bryan Jenkins on
Tue, 18th May 2010 8:01 pm
my sister had a hard time getting pregnant because she has this abnormality in her uterus.*,”
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