If These Walls Could Talk (1996)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Good concept, poorly executed.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Im sorry to those who loved this film. But i thought it was sick. The scene at the end was hideous, with the way matthew lillard shot cher was horrible and very unpleasant to watch. yes it's educational at how christians react to abortion, but surely this is extremism that isn't even enjoyable. However I did think it was well acted by the leads, but I cannot get over why on earth the shooting scene was in here. It was horrific, and as a secondary school religious studies student, i found it rather distracting and haunting and something i will always think of whenever learning about abortion. truly horrible. cher has certainly dropped her standards, why on earth would she make this hammy, horrid rubbish?

I watched If These Walls Could Talk II (which is much more accessible here in the Netherlands) before this one, but I must say I'm not too impressed with either of them.This one picks up the issue of abortion, telling three tales in three different periods. In the first, a woman is pregnant by her dead husbands brother. In the second, a mother of 4 who is finally ready to live for herself finds herself pregnant yet again. And in the third, a young woman is pregnant by her professor.The movie is showing us how abortion laws and ideas about it change over the years. Some scenes were hard to watch (in particular in segment no 1) and one of the movie's conclusion is that it's best that women have the ability to have an abortion in a clean and safe envirement.Although I agree with that, I still have major problems with the concept of abortion. I feel it's often an easy way out for people who should've known better (I'm aware of the many exceptions). But never mind that, I should value the movie for what it is.And it just ain't that good, I'm afraid. 5/10.

I love this film because it tackles the issue from both internal and external places. Arguments are presented without bias, no matter what some may say. My dad even thought this was a Pro-Life film. I clearly disagree with him and believe it's got lots of Pro-Choice leanings. Demi Moore playing a nurse who is totally alone with an unplanned pregnancy was excellent. Her fear and aloneness in the not so fabulous '50s was so beautifully represented. And it's like the other comment said, her "family" treated her more like an extension of their dead son than like an individual person. I'd rather have no family at all than one like that. Sissy Spacek represented a choice, in a decade where choices were allowed. She had it so much easier than Demi Moore's character, yet her struggle and ultimate decision were just as hard in a lot of ways, maybe even harder. Anne Heche and Cher play two women who are up against Pro-Lifers who "love babies". It reminds me of a bumper sticker I once saw: "I love babies...born and unborn." Okay, great, but too many people who love babies actually hate KIDS. Once the child is no longer bald, pink and small, this passionate "love" turns into hatred and abuse of the worst kind. I know, I've seen it and I've lived it. Truly the most nerve jangling moment is at the very end of the film. Matthew Lillard is terrific as a psycho!!!I give this film an A+++++

When I started to watch the movie, I assumed it would be very heavily slanted toward pro-choice. Hollywood has a tendancy to be incredibly liberal. However I was pleasantly suprised that, while certainly biased toward pro-choice, it was much more moderate than I expected. It showed "reasonable" pro-life protesters (in the 1994 segment) that were neither insane nor violent. The movie took the issue very seriously and looked at both sides. Still pretty biased, but not unreasonably so.