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Loving the Bad Man (2010)
They put a Baldwin on the cover and let a kid do his prison ink
I really don't understand why this film attempts to center around its lead Julie, as she has no agency whatsoever in the film. Julie is the victim of a violent sexual assault resulting in a pregnancy that she carries to term and a son she opts to raise, but the main conflicts center almost entirely around the men in her life. It cries for sympathy throughout for her abusive victim-blaming father and some weeb coworker that has a crush on her, but it plays a tiny violin for her abuser. This nauseatingly tone-deaf film suggests the most important followup to a life altering attack from a stranger is to keep your attacker's baby, pray a lot, and then coddle him in prison to help him find God, play family by giving him access to and info about his biological child, and temper every one else's cope without ever processing your own pain and struggle. Lead is a very sweet girl with the emotional and mental maturity of a 12 year old.
Unplanned (2019)
Too close to an abortion itself
The personal story this film was based around would be a lot easier to empathize with throughout the film if it didn't insist on painting Planned Parenthood as some infant slaughterhouse just beyond the gates of hell, run by soulless and deeply incompetent healthcare workers who treat women like junkyard cars. The ultrasound they show that turns the main character to being pro-life is laughably cartoonish and inaccurate. The acting is passable compared to many other Christian films, but it falls flat on its face the way numerous faith based films do by demonizing and dehumanizing people who understand that being pro life means valuing existing lives.