StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Aedonerre I gave this film a 9 out of 10, because it was exactly what I expected it to be.

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Irishchatter Honestly this movie was pretty crappy the way it's not in proper order as the second movie was!So in the first story, we see Demi Moore's character as a 1950's nurse and is wanting to terminate the baby because it seemed to be that she slept with her dead husbands brother. However I didn't realise that was the case at all as the storyline was going too quick for me. Then she gets a creepy sick doctor that didn't disinfect the equipment and just left her there losing a large amount of blood. The screen fades and raises like a million questions in your head. I was wondering the whole night did she die or did someone save her? This had given me a headache a and I felt really unsatisfied that it didn't show what happened.Anyways the second story wasn't as depressing but wasn't that great. The mother of 4 Barbara realises she's pregnant but doesn't want the baby since she has enough rascals in the house lol. I mean at the end when she decided to keep the baby, I thought to myself like shouldn't she talk more about this to her husband instead of arguing with him a lot. Like c'mon this story was meant to be set in the 70's not 50's so why was she hiding on wanting to get rid of the baby!To the third story, we see a young girl Christine finding out she's preggers by Craig T Nelsons sugar daddy character and disses him. Then she is arguing with Jada Pinketts character because she believes if Christine aborts the baby, she would go to hell. They go to the health clinic and are introduced by Cher's character who will be aborting Christines babies. Then this is where the storyline became stupid and awful. The young fella we had met earlier on became a psycho killing Cher's character, injuring another doctor and Christine. Then the scene fades, what kind of story was that??!! Why weren't even the police involved??The stories were rubbish, I don't know why this won 3 golden globes and the sequel only one?! This is one of the worst films I have ever seen in my life!

secondtake If These Walls Could Talk (1996)Three half hour movies with three distinct casts (each featuring a superstar) and each tied together by occurring in the same house, each twenty years apart. In each episode, a woman needs an abortion, and with great realism and sometimes great drama, they deal with the problem in terms of the era they were born into. The first is the best, and features Demi Moore as a woman in 1952, when abortion is not only illegal but utterly shameful to consider for most people. But Moore's character is a sympathetic one, and if you feel she should "just have the baby" as some in the movie do, she could only do so at great sacrifice (if losing your job, your friends, and your current life by having a baby and giving it away is a sacrifice). She eventually tries to get a fly-by-night provider.The second episode is also really strong, and has a vivid, realistic depiction of a 1974 household. This is when abortion has been made emphatically legal by Roe v. Wade, and so the mother of four played by Sissy Spacek finds herself pregnant. The issue then becomes whether or not have a legal abortion. Her husband and others (including a feminist teenage daughter) advise and pressure her. It's now become a legitimate "choice" in the true "pro choice" sense of the word.The third episode is a dud. That's not to say it's dull. But the first two segments were filled with internal, intimate dilemmas and decisions. They depict contemporary life and make real the problem women faced in those terms. Here the "family" is a pair of college-aged roommates, one of who can't act. The other is pregnant and goes to the local woman's clinic to check it out (and possibly have the procedure). Outside are some protesters. So far so good—this is the more recent 1996 reality, and it fills out the set. But the mood shifts to politics and social circumstance, and to sensation. Furthermore, the star actress is not the one who is pregnant, but the clinic doctor, played by Cher (who also co-directed this segment). It seems far too gratuitous, and since it comes at the end of the movie, it undermines the subtle power of the first two thirds.Still, overall, director/writer Nancy Savoca deserves a bow. She takes on a tough issue and more or less tells it like it is. Her stance is clear—she's for women's rights, and not sympathetic to the protesters and naysayers—but she deals with both sides fairly. (I'm sure an anti-choice viewer might disagree here.) And Demi Moore gets credit for pushing the whole idea for years beforehand. The usual studios wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole, and it took a youthful HBO to give it a run.The movie taken whole is, in a way, pro life. That is, it's for what is "best" in the normal sense, the same sense that my mother was pro choice and chose to have me.

Dfredsparks This film shows up as well now as I did when I first saw it in 1996 and was amazed. All those in the "demi moore can't act" camp should check out what she can do with the right material. She delivers an amazing performance in the first piece, giving those of us who dont remember a glimpse of the pre-Roe v Wade situation for women who found themselves in a less than desirable situation. Sissy Spacek is brilliant as ever in a lighter, though heartfelt and often ignored situation of a mom deciding whether one more child is what she wants. The final segment knocks me off my feet. Kudos to Cher for pulling together great actors and great stories.

Lavake Great movie, although it rather is a documentary... The abortion-scandal is well displayed and the director, producers and the cast can be proud of their work. The last story (with Cher) is based on real documentary-footage, so the things the anti-abortion-club does and the things these people say, were really done and said. A movie you MUST see if you are at all interested in the abortion-case.