October Baby

2011 "Every Life Is Beautiful"
6.6| 1h47m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 30 October 2011 Released
Producted By: Provident Films
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.octoberbabymovie.net/
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A beautiful and naive college freshman discovers that her entire life is a lie and sets out on a road trip with a host of misfits to discover herself and the answers she craves.

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.
vansomeren-59641 An awful propaganda film. Not realistic or life moving, the minute they mentioned Pregnancy Crisis Center they gave them selves away. So very sad to to even produce such a degrading and unrealistic movie. Acting was mediocre, direction truly abysmal. Almost seems like an Erwin family propaganda film. Offensive, unreal a truly Focus on the family propaganda film. Would not recommend this film to anyone, if I could I would rate it a minus 10. Family films are one thing but blatant propaganda films produced by the far right evangelical designed to forward the agenda who disrespect women and the law. Giving this a 5 star rating on Netflix makes me want to drop my Netfilx account. Shame on Netflix
Johan Dondokambey The story begins nicely but then jumps to the main theme quite abruptly. The development proves to be somewhat better than the opening. Yet the screenplay feels a bit overly flat on the story build up, not really using the comic relief part well, yet not really striking in the drama aspect. The twist later is on is another good thing to see although it's very predictable thanks to the hint earlier on. The finale is just a great job for drama enthusiast to enjoy, and the epilogue completes the movie very nicely. Rachel Hendrix puts a good acting job in this movie, just enough to depict Hannah's inner anxiety Jason Burkey gives a nice balancing role for the story to build on.
Rich Wright Christian films, eh? Dontcha just lurve them. They can get away with numerous flaws in the plot, corny dialogue and soap-opera style melodramatics... as long as they preach the word of THE LORD. All criticism is null and void as long as His message gets out... so unbelievers, repent! Unfortunately, I'm an agnostic at best, so am prepared to risk the flames of hellfire to tell you what I REALLY think of this anti-abortion propaganda cunningly disguised as a feature film. Sooo... here we go. "Flexes his fingers".Hannah is a sick, sick 19 year old. She's got epilepsy, asthma and has had numerous hip operations over the years. She's also suicidal. The latest incident to hit her is fainting during a school play. While recuperating in hospital, she finds out from a doctor her fragile body and thoughts of inadequacy can be traced back to when she was still in the womb... and her mother tried to have her terminated. The procedure didn't work, but did leave her with constant mental and physical problems. She was then adopted by decent, God-fearing (what else?) folk.Devastated by this revelation, she decides to go on a road trip to Alabama to find her real mother. Along for the ride too is her 'perfect' childhood male pal and his bitchy girlfriend, with some nondescript nerds who are quickly disposed of. This Hunk she's known since her younger days... could the script be any less subtle in saying they belong together? His current squeeze is nothing more than a walking slut stereotype. We have no idea how they came to be a couple... maybe for the sake of the movie. Anyway, trying to pretend that anything else is gonna happen besides Mr Six Pack dumping the bitch and hooking up with Hannah is an insult to every thinking person out there... but get used to that feeling, cos there's plenty to go round.Twice Hannah and her posse get arrested, twice she manages to bail them out of prison time and massive fines by regaling her tearful story. In the USA? Yeah, right. Another noteworthy moment is where her and The Hunk hire a hotel room for the night... they have the most trivial of squabbles... whereupon she walks out, followed by her future beau... and they spend the rest of the evening curled up on a sofa in the foyer. Why? We don't know. And if they could do that in the first place, why bother paying for a room? Dumb, dumb, dumb. A convenient occurrence is also when she takes a dip in the ocean, fully-clothed (This is a Christian film, remember?) and ruins the phone in her back pocket. This is so no-one can contact her later on. Either these people are thick, or the hack writers are using any ends to justify the means. Probably a bit of both.Oh, and what with this being a RELIGIOUS movie, we have to have the obligatory scene in an empty church just before closing time, where the priest sits with a tearful Hannah on a pew and gives the most banal advice about 'trusting in God', the solution to all life's hurdles. Yeah, right... He didn't help me the other day when I couldn't find the last piece of my jigsaw. More evidence of their not-so-secret agenda can be found in the underlying moral that YOU SHOULD FORGIVE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES and Hannah, despite being 19, still being under the thumb of her father... because ya know, patriarchy rules. There's even a bit near the end when Hunky asks his permission if he can date his daughter. Dude... the 19th century called... they want their ideology back.Aside from all the stupidity and dogma throughout, it's just a badly made flick. The constant presence of annoying background music is distracting to say the least, and if I never see one more shot of a gently lapping ocean again during an 'emotional' moment... I'll be a very happy bunny. The actors do what they can with their limited roles, but it's to be hoped they can move on from doctrine infested tosh like this and star in a production where they can spread their wings... and not act as mouthpieces to a fundamentalist's cause. 3/10
tavm After college student Hannah (Rachel Hendrix) passes out during the performance of her play, she finds out from her doctor that that moment as well as previous ailments are related to her premature birth which forces her parents (John Schneider and Jennifer Price) to reveal that she's adopted and that she's the product of a failed abortion. I'll stop there and just say that this was quite a touching movie about a girl's journey to find her birth mother and the painful emotions she goes through in doing so. Besides the above players, I also liked the supporting turns by Jasmine Guy as the nurse who explains what happened during Hannah's birth, Jason Burkey as a close friend of hers, Rodney Clark as the priest who tries to get Hannah to forgive, and Shari Rigby as the bio mother. Ms. Rigby also appears in the end credits as herself when she mentions something in her real life that helped her performance. Now, while I believe in a woman's right to choose (especially if the male partner wants nothing to do with the infant's life), I actually appreciated the way this film tells how dangerous such a choice could be, not to mention how such a choice could still be hurtful to the person who made it. So on that note, I highly recommend October Baby.