If these walls could talk [videorecording]

Resource Information

The work If these walls could talk [videorecording] represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Coweta Public Library System. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

If these walls could talk [videorecording]

Statement of responsibility

HBO Home Entertainment ; HBO NYC presents a Moving Pictures production

Contributor

• Yulin, Harris
• HBO Home Entertainment (Firm)
• HBO NYC Productions
• HBO Video (Firm)
• Moving Pictures (Firm : Santa Monica, Calif.)
• Warner Home Video (Firm)
• Berkeley, Xander, 1955-
• Brennan, Eileen
• Burress, Hedy
• trueCher, 1946-
• Crouse, Lindsay
• Gleason, Joanna
• trueHeche, Anne
• Keener, Catherine
• King, I. Marlene
• Knight, Shirley
• London, Jason
• trueMoore, Demi
• Nanus, Susan
• Nelson, Craig T
• Pounder, C. C. H
• Savoca, Nancy
• Scarwid, Diana, 1955-
• trueSmith, Jada Pinkett, 1971-
• trueSpacek, Sissy
• Toussaint, Lorraine, 1960-
• Wallace, Earl W
• trueWallace, Pamela
• Wilson, Rita

Actor

• Wilson, Rita
• Yulin, Harris
• trueHeche, Anne
• Knight, Shirley
• Brennan, Eileen
• Burress, Hedy
• Keener, Catherine
• trueCher, 1946-
• trueMoore, Demi
• trueSpacek, Sissy
• Crouse, Lindsay
• Toussaint, Lorraine, 1960-
• Gleason, Joanna
• Berkeley, Xander, 1955-
• Nelson, Craig T
• Pounder, C. C. H
• London, Jason
• Scarwid, Diana, 1955-
• trueSmith, Jada Pinkett, 1971-

Screenwriter

• trueWallace, Pamela
• Savoca, Nancy
• King, I. Marlene
• Wallace, Earl W
• Nanus, Susan

Director

• Savoca, Nancy
• trueCher, 1946-

Subject

• Pregnancy, Unwanted -- Drama
• Abortion -- Religious aspects -- Drama
• Abortion applicants -- Drama
• Abortion services -- United States -- Drama
• Aborto -- Teatro
• Fiction television programs
• Made-for-TV movies
• Abortion -- Drama
• Medical drama
• Pregnancy, Unwanted -- Decision making -- Drama
• Reproductive rights -- Drama
• Television programs -- United States
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Women -- Drama
• Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- Drama

Genre

• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Made-for-TV movies
• Medical drama
• Teatro
• trueDrama
• Television programs
• Fiction television programs

Language

• eng
• spa
• eng
• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng

Summary

A trilogy of stories set in the same house--with different occupants and spanning over 40 years--examines three women, the common crisis of an unexpected pregnancy, and the wrenching decision to have an abortion. In 1952, abortion is illegal. A widowed nurse deals with her unexpected pregnancy by taking drastic measures to obtain one. In 1974, a happily married woman, the mother of four children, discovers that she is pregnant again. Now she must choose between losing her lifelong dream and terminating her pregnancy. In 1996, a Catholic college student finds herself pregnant as the result of an affair with a professor. She decides on an abortion, but does not realize what it means to go through with one, while society rends itself asunder with violent protest

Cataloging source

TKN

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

• 1952: Directed by Nancy Savoca ; teleplay by Nancy Savoca ; story by Pamela Wallace & Earl Wallace and Nancy Savoca ; director of photography, Ellen Kuras ; edited by Elena Maganini
• 1974: Directed by Nancy Savoca ; written by Susan Nanus and Nancy Savoca ; director of photography, Bobby Bukowski ; editor, Elena Maganini
• 1996: Directed by Cher ; story by I. Marlene King ; teleplay by I. Marlene King and Nancy Savoca ; director of photography, John Stanier ; editor, Peter Honess
• All episodes: music, Cliff Eidelman ; production designer, Hilda Stark Manos ; costume designer, Jacqueline Arthur

Dewey number

791.45/72

Intended audience

MPAA rating: R

Language note

• In English or dubbed Spanish, with optional subtitles in English, Spanish or French
• Closed-captioned

LC call number

PN1992.77

LC item number

.I29 2010

PerformerNote

• 1952: Demi Moore, Shirley Knight, Catherine Keener, Jason London, C.C.H. Pounder
• 1974: Sissy Spacek, Xander Berkeley, Hedy Burress, Joanna Gleason, Harris Yulin
• 1996: Cher, Anne Heche, Jada Pinkett, Eileen Brennan, Lindsay Crouse, Craig T. Nelson, Diana Scarwid, Lorraine Toussaint, Rita Wilson

Runtime

97

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action