Unplanned

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[[File:Unplanned promotional poster.png|thumb|right|165px|''Unplanned'' film poster]]
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{{cquote|There’s not a single scene that speaks to characters with lives outside their streamlined narrative function; they’re performers in a parable traced over a [[Jack Chick|Chick]] tract.|||Vadim Rizov, ''AV Club''<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190916190720/https://film.avclub.com/unplanned-is-an-abortion-about-abortion-1833646797 Vadim Rizov, "''Unplanned'' is an abortion about abortion," ''AV Club'', Mar. 29, 2019, accessed Oct. 4, 2019.]</ref>}}

'''''Unplanned''''' is a maudlin, [[Appeal to emotion|emotionally manipulative]] anti-[[abortion]] [[propaganda]]/[[Christsploitation]] movie unintelligently designed in 2019. It [[Preaching to the choir|preaches to the choir]] of the [[American]] [[Republican]] white [[Evangelical]] [[Christian]] [[anti-choice]] crowd that thinks that showing filmgoers bloody pictures of late-term abortions will melt their hearts and sway their opinions.

==Plot and reception==
''Unplanned'' earned 40% on the Tomatometer<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20191004021021/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/unplanned ''Rotten Tomatoes'', accessed Oct. 4, 2019.]</ref> and overwhelming critical dislike at Metacritic, at 10 out of 100.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20191004185648/https://www.metacritic.com/movie/unplanned "Unplanned," Metacritic, as accessed Oct. 4, 2019.]</ref> However, it was upvote-bombed at both sites by, one suspects, hordes of [[true believers]], the [[Westboro Baptist Church]], [[QAnon]] followers, GitHub bots, and perhaps, just to shake things up, a couple of bored [[Roman Catholic]] cardinals.

The film is written and directed by Chuck Konzelman and Cary Solomon, who wrote ''[[God's Not Dead]]'' and ''[[God's Not Dead 2]]''. The movie and script are based on a memoir of questionable veracity<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190802195812/https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/the-convert/ Nate Balkeslee, "The convert," ''Texas Monthly'', Feb. 2010, as displayed Aug. 2, 2019.]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190417180340/https://slate.com/human-interest/2010/01/the-earth-shaking-abortion-that-never-happened.html Amanda Marcotte, "The earth-shaking abortion that never happened," ''Slate'', Jan. 7, 2010, as accessed Apr. 17, 2019.]</ref> by [[Abby Johnson]], a former [[Planned Parenthood]] director–turned-anti-abortion activist (except the [[Bible]] does not forbid abortion,<ref>[http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/says_about/abortion.html ''The Skeptic's Annotated Bible'']</ref> but let's not get bogged down in details!). That story, by sheer unbelievable chance, also happens to be the plot.

The film strangely does not star [[Kirk Cameron]]. Seemingly they could not afford such a big movie star, as they also saved money by using [[strawman|straw men]] for anyone involved in Planned Parenthood, an organization which, the film is compelled to mention, [[antisemitism|was]] [[dogwhistle|funded]] [[International Jewish conspiracy|by]] [[George Soros]].

==Selected coverage of the film==
*[[Glenn Beck]] on [[YouTube]]: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rgcXAnzz-o 'Unplanned' is the Story of Abby Johnson You Have to Hear to Believe]
*[[Fox News]] on YouTube: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnpHHJTRgpQ Pro-Life Actress Plays Abby Johnson in 'Unplanned': Role 'Worth It,' Even If I'm Blacklisted]
==See also==
*[[Jack Chick]]
==External links==
*[https://www.unplannedfilm.com The film's official website]
*[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9024106/ ''Unplanned'' on IMDb]
*[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Unplanned ''Unplanned''] on [[TV Tropes]]
*{{wpa|Unplanned|''Unplanned''}}
==References==
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[[Category:Anti-abortion activists]]
[[Category:Antisemitism]]
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[[Category:Propaganda]]
[[Category:Texas]]

Categories: Abortion, Anti-abortion activists, Antisemitism, Christianity, Films, Propaganda, Texas