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Roe vs. Wade

6.5 100 mins TV Movie   Drama   1989
The Mannheim Company   NBC Productions   NBC  
Director(s): Gregory Hoblit

Holly Hunter plays a lonely, single, poorly educated Texan who finds herself pregnant with no means to support a child. To avoid giving up the child, she seeks an abortion. Denied an abortion in Texas the young woman hires a novice lawyer to plead her case in the US supreme court. Eventually the law is changed, but for the character it takes longer than nine months.

Casts of Roe vs. Wade

Holly Hunter

as Ellen Russell / Jane Doe

Amy Madigan

as Sarah Weddington

Chris Mulkey

as Ron Weddington

Terry O'Quinn

as Jay Floyd

Stephen Tobolowsky

as Darryl Horwath

James Gammon

as Jimmy Russell

Dion Anderson

as Bob Flowers

Kathy Bates

as Jessie

Micole Mercurio

as Ida Russell

David Wohl

as Terry Bowman

George Murdock

as Supreme Court Judge

Paul Lambert

as Supreme Court Judge

Kenneth Tigar

as Supreme Court Judge

Glenn Morshower

as Jerry

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