In 'Call Jane,' Elizabeth Banks and Sigourney Weaver lead a drama about illegal abortion access in the late ‘60s and early ’70s.
and the rest of the talented ensemble shine while imparting a lesson in some timely real-life history in the process. Set in 1968 Chicago, "Call Jane" follows Joy Griffin as she discovers that her much-wanted second pregnancy has complications that give her a 50 percent survival rate. Though conservative in most senses of the word, Joy doesn’t hesitate in her decision: She wants to end her pregnancy and ensure she can be around for her teenage daughter , her husband and herself.
The high points of the film involve the Jane Collective itself, which Joy first encounters as a patient before becoming an increasingly involved volunteer. It’s a group defined equally by spy-like secrecy and sorority-like sisterhood, as volunteers ferry patients to a squirrely but efficient off-the-books doctor and then envelop them in warm, supportive aftercare.
Equally radical is the way director Phyllis Nagy allows multiple surgical abortions to play out in detail, demystifying the much-debated procedure from both a medical point of view and a human one. As we experience Joy’s abortion in real-time alongside her, we see how simple the process is and yet how terrifying it can be to seek intimate medical care in an unlicensed setting.
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