Banks is such a talented comedic performer sometimes it's easy to forget how well she can switch to drama. This fictionalized dramatization produced by and starring her, and featuring the actually historic group The Jane Collective, is compelling and inspiring and features two great stars playing off each other so well.
Call Jane attempts to show the horrors of criminalizing abortion access and does so but perhaps a little gently. It even touches on the racial issues underlying the struggle, if ever so briefly. If I have any critique of this movie is that it doesn't go quite far enough. But it gets its point across and does so with a compelling drama that is easy to watch and get pulled into.
I appreciated the film avoided some easy cliches. Call Jane seems to be setting up some characters to be petty and or betrayers, yet in the end shows the community coming together against the forces that would deny basic humanity to women and pregnant people. I was the happy the film focused on women and their allies coming together instead of being pushed apart. Again perhaps this glosses over some of the more contentious parts of the struggle, but for this film it works.
Call Jane is a touching portrait of heroism and stepping up when one needs to.
Call Jane
Starring: Elizabeth Banks, Sigourney Weaver, Chris Messina, Kate Mara, Wunmi Mosaku, Cory Michael Smith
Director: Phyllis Nagy
Writers: Hayley Schore, Roshan Sethi
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