SPECIAL  MOVIE INVITATION

WHO:   High School Boys (Parents are welcome)

WHEN: Sunday, April 7, 1:30-4:00pm

WHERE: Lincoln Grand 8 Theater / Lincoln, IL

COST: FREE!!!...thanks to a generous, anonymous donor

CONTACT:Todd Henry @ 217.871.3515 with any questions.

Review of the Movie

Every now and then, a movie comes along that's not just merely "good." Or merely "must see" water-cooler fare. I'm talking about films that are genuinely important because they force us to see something clearly that perhaps we've never really seen before. Oftentimes, these can be gritty, graphic, difficult-to-sit-through films.

I'd put Schindler's List in that category. And Saving Private Ryan. And Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. Not surprisingly, perhaps, all of those movies are rated R. They pull no punches in their detailed depiction of difficult, violent realities.

I'd put Unplanned in the same category as these films in terms of the emotional wallop it packs. Like them, Unplanned forces us to look at an awful reality that we might be tempted to minimize. The film's depiction of a fetus being sucked, limb by limb, from its mother's womb cannot be unseen.

But unlike so much of our culture's fascination and infatuation with gore and violence, that scene depicts something that really happens. Since 1973, an estimated 56 million abortions have been performed in the United States. Sixty million souls knit together in God's image. Sixty million souls that never drew a breath. It's a moral travesty that's incomprehensible in its scope.

Unplanned is an important film because it makes us consider the moral weight of this otherwise mind-numbing statistic. Through the eyes of one woman who once believed she was doing good, we see the horror of abortion for what it truly is.

(Full review w/spoilers and detailed scene descriptions:

https://www.pluggedin.com/movie-reviews/unplanned-2019)