It’s impossible to watch Haley Lu Richardson and not see that she’s a star in the making. She just has that “it factor” about her. In a fairly short period of time, she’s established herself as someone to really watch. Richardson is rarely given starring roles, so far at least, so the new release Unpregnant is a welcome tonic to that. Coming as one of the first original releases for streamer HBO Max, it’s a lovely mix of comedy and drama, utilizing some silly elements as a delivery system for an angry message about the state of female health in America. Unsurprisingly, it’s all very well done, anchored by Richardson in a role that should only increase her profile in Hollywood. The film is a road trip comedy, with a bit of a twist, based on the novel by Ted Caplan and Jenni Hendriks. A...
- 9/13/2020
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
For the first time in her high school career, 17-year-old valedictorian Veronica (Haley Lu Richardson) has flunked a test. That blue positive sign means she’s pregnant, and now she wants a redo — to become “Unpregnant,” in the words of director Rachel Lee Goldenberg (“Valley Girl”), who has a flair for the flip understatement. Goldenberg’s road-trip comedy, based on the novel by Jenni Hendriks and Ted Caplan, has no time for hemming and hawing. To obtain an abortion without her conservative parents’ permission, the popular blonde must make a 2,000-mile drive from Missouri to New Mexico in 48 hours, which, with Type-a aplomb, she calculates is doable if she stops only for bathroom breaks and, like, the actual procedure.
But Veronica’s plan for a speedy, super-secret abortion has one flaw: The only person able to chauffeur is her former best friend Bailey (Barbie Ferreira), a punkish screw-up who hasn...
But Veronica’s plan for a speedy, super-secret abortion has one flaw: The only person able to chauffeur is her former best friend Bailey (Barbie Ferreira), a punkish screw-up who hasn...
- 9/11/2020
- by Amy Nicholson
- Variety Film + TV
When Director Rachel Lee Goldenberg was sent the manuscript for Ted Caplan and Jenni Hendricks’ novel Unpregnant, she realized she was given a chance to portray something dear to her heart.
“I just thought it was such a brilliant way into this story. I thought having this funny, character-based, really adventurous plot that by design is showing this political issue that’s important to me felt like sort of irresistible opportunity,” Goldenberg tells The Hollywood Reporter.
At first glance of the trailer for HBO Max’s buddy comedy Unpregnant, the film abides by the same formula of a traditional road trip comedy. But beneath ...
“I just thought it was such a brilliant way into this story. I thought having this funny, character-based, really adventurous plot that by design is showing this political issue that’s important to me felt like sort of irresistible opportunity,” Goldenberg tells The Hollywood Reporter.
At first glance of the trailer for HBO Max’s buddy comedy Unpregnant, the film abides by the same formula of a traditional road trip comedy. But beneath ...
When Director Rachel Lee Goldenberg was sent the manuscript for Ted Caplan and Jenni Hendricks’ novel Unpregnant, she realized she was given a chance to portray something dear to her heart.
“I just thought it was such a brilliant way into this story. I thought having this funny, character-based, really adventurous plot that by design is showing this political issue that’s important to me felt like sort of irresistible opportunity,” Goldenberg tells The Hollywood Reporter.
At first glance of the trailer for HBO Max’s buddy comedy Unpregnant, the film abides by the same formula of a traditional road trip comedy. But beneath ...
“I just thought it was such a brilliant way into this story. I thought having this funny, character-based, really adventurous plot that by design is showing this political issue that’s important to me felt like sort of irresistible opportunity,” Goldenberg tells The Hollywood Reporter.
At first glance of the trailer for HBO Max’s buddy comedy Unpregnant, the film abides by the same formula of a traditional road trip comedy. But beneath ...
Rachel Lee Goldenberg and Haley Lu Richardson first collaborated together on the 2013 Lifetime movie “Escape From Polygamy,” in which the rising star played a 17-year-old looking to leave a polygamous compound. Their new film, “Unpregnant,” premiering Sept. 10 on HBO Max, is a big departure — it’s a comedy, but not an easy one to categorize. Based on the book by Ted Caplan and Jenni Hendriks, the film centers on the friendship between two teen girls named Veronica (Richardson) and Bailey (Barbie Ferreira) who take a road trip to another state so that Veronica can have a legal abortion. Part teen comedy, part road trip movie, the film also has some very dramatic moments — and even an action scene that would feel at home in “Mad Max: Fury Road.”
“What I love about the movie is that it is hard to describe,” says Goldenberg, who co-write and directed the film. “We...
“What I love about the movie is that it is hard to describe,” says Goldenberg, who co-write and directed the film. “We...
- 9/9/2020
- by Jenelle Riley
- Variety Film + TV
Haley Lu Richardson in ‘Unpregnant’ Trailer Gives a Buddy Comedy Spin on Teen Abortion Drama (Video)
Though there’s already a very serious looking drama about teen abortion called “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” that opened this year, the first trailer for the new film “Unpregnant” starring Haley Lu Richardson gives a road trip, buddy comedy spin on the same story.
Richardson stars alongside Barbie Ferreira in a comedy coming to HBO Max in which Richardson plays a straight-a student and popular kids who enlists her more rebellious, former best friend (Ferreira) to get an abortion over 1,000 miles in New Mexico. Of course in this story, they end up on the run from the cops, in a stolen Trans-Am and even trying to jump aboard a moving train on their trip to get the procedure done.
“There’s an Albuquerque in Missouri? The law won’t let me get one without my parents knowing,” Richardson says in the trailer. “It’s my life, it’s my choice.
Richardson stars alongside Barbie Ferreira in a comedy coming to HBO Max in which Richardson plays a straight-a student and popular kids who enlists her more rebellious, former best friend (Ferreira) to get an abortion over 1,000 miles in New Mexico. Of course in this story, they end up on the run from the cops, in a stolen Trans-Am and even trying to jump aboard a moving train on their trip to get the procedure done.
“There’s an Albuquerque in Missouri? The law won’t let me get one without my parents knowing,” Richardson says in the trailer. “It’s my life, it’s my choice.
- 8/12/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
HBO Max is continuing to round out its original film programming, adding a fresh new comedy from “Valley Girl” remake filmmaker Rachel Lee Goldenberg and rising stars Haley Lu Richardson and Barbie Ferreira to its upcoming slate. “Unpregnant” puts a humorous spin on a tough, timely topic, but promises to do it with a generous dash of humor. The film’s first trailer offers a funny first look at a fresh take on the young adult novel of the same name, written by authors Jenni Hendriks (“How I Met Your Mother”) and Ted Caplan (music editor for “The Hate U Give” and “The Greatest Showman”).
The film follows Richardson’s Veronica, a Missouri teen who is shocked to discover she is pregnant, and who sets off on a road trip with her former best pal Bailey (Ferreira) in hopes of securing an abortion so that she can continue to pursue her Ivy League college dreams.
The film follows Richardson’s Veronica, a Missouri teen who is shocked to discover she is pregnant, and who sets off on a road trip with her former best pal Bailey (Ferreira) in hopes of securing an abortion so that she can continue to pursue her Ivy League college dreams.
- 8/12/2020
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Just a couple of days back we had reported that Anupam Kher had to make his way back to the city after being denied to visit the National Institute of Technology in Srinagar. Well away from such denials we hear that Anupam Kher has been roped in to feature in a film on sex trafficking alongside Freida Pinto. The film in question titled Love Sonia tells the heartfelt and brave story of Sonia, a young Indian village girl whose life irrevocably changes when she is entrapped into the vicious global sex trade network. Tweeting about the same Kher posted, "Happy & Proud to be part of this amazing international film Love Sonia dir by Tabrez Noorani.:)". Written by Ted Caplan and Alkesh Vaja, Love Sonia will mark the directorial debut of Slumdog Millionaire producer Tabrez Noorani. As for the cast, while Mrunal Thakur will play the title character, the film...
- 4/14/2016
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
Exclusive: Sex trafficking is a global plague that affects 800,000 women and children, and a global consortium has come together to make a hard-hitting movie about it that will start production in India on April 24. Slumdog Millionaire producer Tabrez Noorani makes his directorial debut and David Womark (LifeOof Pi and Deepwater Horizon) is producing Love Sonia, a drama inspired by real events and written by Ted Caplan and Alkesh Vaja. Love Sonia tells the heartfelt and…...
- 4/13/2016
- Deadline
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