The Pregnancy Pact (2010)

hyped garbage

A Masterpiece!

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

I was dying to see this movie as we did a lot stuff at school on Juno and the whole teen pregnancy thing in my media class and really wanted to see if this movie added the "hype" about pregnancy that the media is always talking about. I was mistaken. If your expecting awesome characters with a bubbly cute and cool storyline this one is not for you but at the same time it does dive right into the teen pregnancy and high school issues while still being able to quickly brush over the main points. In the beginning, the movie starts off in a little high school in a tight-knit community that does not provide birth control and girls in certain cliques want to be pregnant and have a baby whether the boyfriend or guy wants to or not. A reporter comes back to her home town as a rapid number of teen pregnancies spikes interest for her teen web page. Then the notion of a "pact" between a group of girls comes out and becomes the hottest topic of the week in the end the reporter tries to help the girls in the so called "pact", causes a bit of trouble and eventually finds out the real truth. In my opinion I was a bit disappointed with the movie but found it quite interesting as it follows a slight documentary type feel and can actually make you think. I also like the fact that after the first girl has her baby the movie was able to show her in pain and regretting having the baby and not loving the child and really struggling being a parent, giving the young girls watching the movie the actual fact that teen pregnancy is not fun and all cute little babies and laughs.

I don't know the complete facts upon which this movie is based. All I know is what was splattered across the cable media and other concerning teen pregnancy spike in Gloucester Massachusetts. While the story is considered fiction based on true events, unplanned teen pregnancy in the United States has always been an issue going back to at least the 1970s. I generally thought the film was well acted especially by the young teen girls. When the phrase 'Pregnancy Pact' is used one gets the vision of the girls stacking their hands up high and saying "All For One, One For All", sort of like Alexander Dumas 'The Three Musketeers'. I just found it humorous. Since ABC doesn't do Afterschool Specials anymore, Lifetime has picked up the task and this film has all the feel of a traditional afterschool special.

The picture is trying to depict that much more must be done to avoid teen pregnancy.We have quite a story going here with 4 girls in a rural Massachusetts town agreeing to become pregnant. They don't realize the consequences of their actions. In addition, their lives are dull and their goals in society are limited. Getting married and having kids is all they want. Sounds like a time when the thought of girls going to college was looked upon as ludicrous.We have a principal of a high school who really doesn't know or want to know what's going on until he confronted with the issue. A reporter, formerly from the town, returns and reveals to her ex-boyfriend, now wed with children and an assistant principal in the school, that she gave up their child, and did not abort it as she claimed.Nancy Travis is wonderful in the part of the mother, president of the council who is against intervention even when her own daughter becomes president.Serious subject matter is dealt with honestly, but more passion was needed here.

This movie was insulting to women and men. The entire film blames the girls for getting pregnant throughout. The only thing that comes close to addressing the role that the boys had in this was when Jesse says, "I should have pulled out or bought condoms!" Well, duh. These girls did not get pregnant by themselves, and yet the film treats them that way. Its moralistic overtones were also over the top agonizingly bad. Honestly, we all know teen pregnancy is bad. There is no real depth in why these girls got pregnant, what the town was like to live in, where they saw their futures being, etc. The dialogue was unbelievable, the characters stereotyped and sad. The music was dire--it was as bad as Secret Life of the American Teenager--probably by the same person. It was painful to listen to. In all, an awful movie. I can't think of a single redeeming element to this film.