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The Pregnancy Pact

EMAILPRINTMOVIE: Lifetime, Saturday 1/23 at 9:00p (120 minutes)

The Pregnancy Pact
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Generally unfavorable reviews

Based on 4 critic reviews
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Show Info

Genre(s): Drama

Created By: Robert M. Sertner
Frank von Zerneck

First Air Date: January 23, 2010

Summary

Starring Frank von Zerneck, Madisen Beaty, David Rogers, Max Ehrich, James McCaffrey, Camryn Manheim, and Nancy Travis

A group of teenage girls decide to get pregnant at the same time for a variety of reasons in the TV movie loosely based on a 2008 article in Time Magazine.

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

80

Wall Street JournalDorothy Rabinowitz

Program disputes aren't what fires this drama's energies—the credit belongs to a sharp script (Pamela Davis) and characters who come roaring to life in surprising ways.

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40

VarietyBrian Lowry

Credit Lifetime with an earnest attempt to tackle an important issue, down to the obligatory public-service announcement and outreach campaign. Any resemblance between this and a fully realized movie, however, is purely coincidental.

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30

Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert

This could have been a movie about how the pact theory found irresistible momentum in the media, or about the bonds between pregnant teens, or about a conservative mother’s shame when her daughter gets pregnant. Instead, it’s a mishmash of facts, misinformation, and bland storytelling, one that fails both as truth and as fiction.

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0

Boston HeraldMark A. Perigard

The telefilm never pinpoints a motive for the girls’ behavior, so it casts about, laying blame at peer pressure, a poverty of imagination, working-class desperation and even Jamie Lynn Spears’ pregnancy, hoping one will stick. It’s blather.

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What Our Users Said

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