“It’s a quiet film where we spend so much of it with this young woman who’s so isolated in her body, and watching her go through a very difficult journey and a very difficult process. It’s not an easy movie [to watch].”
Sidney Flanigan in "Never Rarely Sometimes Always" . That’s because this compelling dramatic film, written and directed by Eliza Hittman, takes an unflinching look at the harsh realities of what a 17-year-old in rural Pennsylvania has to go through to get an abortion for an unplanned and unwanted pregnancy.
The fake clinic misleads Autumn into thinking she’s less far along in her pregnancy than she actually is, in the hope that by the time she decides to terminate the pregnancy, it will be too late for her to have a legal abortion. When Autumn finally goes to a real clinic, thinking that she’s 10 weeks pregnant, she gets a rude awakening when she finds out the truth: She’s 18 weeks along.
Hittman came up with the idea for the movie in 2012. Now that there have been more aggressive challenges to reproductive rights and abortion access, Hittman says: “I hope that in this current climate and with everything that’s going on, the film helps people realize the deep impact that these barriers have on people’s lives.”
Through the loyal friendship between Autumn and Skylar, the movie shows the importance of women supporting each other. “I did initially try to work on a treatment of the film where [Autumn] was alone — and it didn’t work,” says Hittman. “And I started to think, ‘Who would she take this journey with?’ I’ve taken many quiet rides with friends to Planned Parenthood, and I was thinking about the unspoken bond in those moments.
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