Growing up fast
By: Ruby Slipper Productions ; directed, produced, and edited by Joanna Lipper
Contributors: Fonda, Jane, 1937-; Ruby Slipper Productions; Films for the Humanities (Firm)
Series: CED 602 (NU Course)
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Published: 2004
Place of publication: [Princeton, N.J.]
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 30
Subjects: Teenage mothers; Psychology; Social conditions; Teenage pregnancy; Documentary films
Description: Follows six teen mothers in Pittsfield, Massachusetts through their last months of high school. Through their intimate stories, the film explores the emotions, relationships, and psychological forces that lead to teen pregnancy. Assumptions about teen mothers are challenged as the girls support their families while simultaneously working to graduate from high school with the assistance of tutoring and daycare.
Notes: Photographs by Joanna Lipper from her book "Growing up fast."

Also available as streaming video.

Special feature: director's commentary.

Introduction narrated by Jane Fonda ; music composed and performed by Barrington Pheloung ; director of photography, Dejan Georgevich ; associate producers, Carol Gilligan, Normi Noel.

DVD.