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  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Abramorama
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Abramorama
  • 1 h 30 m

Summary Since 2010, 288 laws regulating abortion providers have been passed by state legislatures. In total, 44 states and the District of Columbia have measures subjecting abortion providers to legal restrictions not imposed on other medical professionals. Unable to comply with these far-reaching and medically unnecessary laws, clinics have tak...

Directed By: Dawn Porter

Written By: Sari Gilman, Dawn Porter

  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Abramorama
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Abramorama
  • 1 h 30 m

Trapped

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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Summary Since 2010, 288 laws regulating abortion providers have been passed by state legislatures. In total, 44 states and the District of Columbia have measures subjecting abortion providers to legal restrictions not imposed on other medical professionals. Unable to comply with these far-reaching and medically unnecessary laws, clinics have tak...

Directed By: Dawn Porter

Written By: Sari Gilman, Dawn Porter

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90
Mar 3, 2016
Trapped is not a balanced analysis of the abortion debate; it makes its sympathies clear. But it is a powerful and persuasive rendering of a corner of women’s health care under siege.
By Andy Webster FULL REVIEW
88
Mar 10, 2016
Why do Parker and the other clinic owners and staff persevere despite constant harassment and potential assassination? Not for the money, certainly. Perhaps because no one else will.
By Peter Keough FULL REVIEW
88
Mar 4, 2016
Unabashedly pro-choice, Trapped is not a debate itself, but it has no need to be.
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75
Mar 17, 2016
Porter’s film is undeniably skewed to the pro-choice position, although she does interview antiabortion advocates as they protest.
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75
Mar 3, 2016
Like "After Tiller" a few years ago, Trapped is lucid and illuminating about the issue of abortion as a constitutional right. But in addition to being instructive, it brims with compassion, leaving viewers with haunting images of women we never even got to see in the first place.
By Ann Hornaday FULL REVIEW
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Mar 2, 2016
Scary and sad, Trapped is for anyone who cares about the precarious future of reproductive health for American women.
By Sara Stewart FULL REVIEW
60
Mar 3, 2016
Powerful material doesn’t automatically yield a timeless or artistic documentary, and for better or worse, Trapped is an op-ed aimed squarely at the present moment in an enduring national conversation.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Big Mouth Productions, Cedar Creek Productions, Trilogy Films
Release Date Mar 4, 2016
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline U.S. abortion clinics are fighting to survive. Since 2010, hundreds of bills have been enacted targeting abortion rights on a statewide level. Trapped follows the clinic workers, women, and lawyers on the front lines of the battle to keep abortion safe and legal for the millions of poor and uninsured women caught in a political quagmire
Website http://trappeddocumentary.com/
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Awards

Cleveland International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Traverse City Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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