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Micah MageeKäsikirjoitus:
Micah MageeNäyttelijät:
Devon Keller, Deztiny Gonzales, Jocko Sims, Kiowa Tucker, Jasmine Skloss Harrison, Emily LapeJuonikuvaukset(1)
Layla is 17 and in her last year at school – she is also expecting a baby. When she receives a scholarship offer for college she decides to have an abortion, but her parents are strictly opposed. They live in the God-fearing state of Texas, after all, where public schools preach sexual abstinence as a means of avoiding pregnancy at a young age – an approach that has very little to do with the real lives of teenagers. And so Layla keeps the baby and takes on first a job at a call centre and then in a restaurant alongside her schoolwork. On Sundays she goes to church with her grandmother. Now separated from the child's underage father, she meets Aaron, who is completely different to other boys of his age. But work, stress and strokes of fate all take their toll. And there is a high price to pay. (Berlinale)
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(50th KVIFF) I’ve been quite lucky with the blind choices to fill in gaps between films that I unconditionally wanted to see in this year’s festival, and Petting Zoo is one of those. A small indie film with autobiographic elements about a secondary school girl who gets unwantedly pregnant in abortion unfriendly Texas, and has to deal with the situation. As a directorial and acting début, it is without doubt a satisfying film that won’t astonish, but won’t offend anyone, either. 65 %
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