Perkins is solid, with Laura San Giacomo, also making her telefilm debut, so-so in unchallenging role of attorney who flies all the way from New York City - local mouthpiece won’t help, and ACLU evidently doesn’t have a Texas chapter.įor that matter, why was it necessary for Thompson to fly to Gotham to state her case, and how was she able to afford the trip? Or, why didn’t producers film the story that actually did lead to the Supreme Court decision instead of this fabrication, which ends with an anticlimactic and minimal out-of-court settlement? The plant issues an ultimatum ordering sterilization of women only (hence the sexual discrimination angle) the male-dominated union drags its heels.Įverything’s wrapped up at the end, but the settlement is minor and a footnote informs that it wasn’t this case that ultimately led Supreme Court to rule against fetal protection policies dramatized in film. Hubby Clark not above thrashing her and threatening to kill Sally and young son Jody if they leave him. In the meantime, Thompson’s marriage is falling apart. Male employees of the plant resent female incursion into their turf, but amuse themselves by peeking into the ladies’ room, even though the women regularly poke a stick through the hole and into the peepers’ peepers.
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