'Roe v. Wade' Review: Dreadful Anti-Abortion Drama Has No Use for Facts or Filmmaking Basics
'Roe v. Wade' Review: Dreadful Anti-Abortion Drama Has No Use for Facts or Filmmaking Basics
Cathy Allyn and Nick Loeb spew lies about 1973's landmark abortion-rights Supreme Court ruling via inept filmmaking and an amateurish cast.
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Director: Cathy Allyn, Nick Loeb
With: Nick Loeb, Stacey Dash, Jamie Kennedy, Joey Lawrence, Lucy Davenport, Greer Grammer, Corbin Bernsen, Robert Davi, William Forsythe, Steve Guttenberg, Richard Portnow, John Schneider, Wade Williams, Jon Voight.
Running time: Running time: 112 MIN.
To seriously consider “Roe v. Wade” — that is, writer-directors Cathy Allyn and Nick Loeb’s atrocious anti-abortion propaganda piece and not the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision in favor of abortion rights — it is helpful to remember a 2017 quote by journalist Chuck Todd. “Alternative facts are not facts. They’re falsehoods,” Todd succinctly said when confronting Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway on her use of the term. While the Trump era that Conway’s expression sums up is behind us, “Roe v. Wade” has reportedly been in the works for the past three years, so it’s fair to reflect on the baffling film as a product of that period, when right-wing fabrications were routinely presented as truth.