Official Trailer
Our Review
- Elizabeth Banks, Sigourney Weaver, Kate Mara
- November 4th 2022
- Phyllis Nagy
Elizabeth Banks plays a conservative housewife who turns to the Jane Collective to help her deal with a life-threatening pregnancy.
When they made the film in 2021, the Call Jane team could never have known just how relevant their film would become by the time it was released in cinemas.
The film shines a light on the Jane Collective or Jane, an underground organisation that gave women safe abortions in Chicago between 1969 and 1973, when they were illegal in America.
The story, set in the late ’60s, is told through the eyes of Joy (Elizabeth Banks), a conservative, Christian housewife who learns that her pregnancy is life-threatening and it would be in her best interests to terminate it.
However, the hospital refuses to do the procedure so she decides to take matters into her own hands.
Joy subsequently discovers the Jane Collective, and after receiving their service, she starts to volunteer with the organisation and becomes increasingly more involved.
Call Jane delivers a clear pro-choice message so it will not appeal to everyone.
The message would...
