Partners in Crime
2021 · 10m · USA
Directed by Kerry LeVielle
Genres: crime, dark comedy, drama
Tones: darkly comic, tense
Two best friends rob a house to scrape together cash for an abortion, turning a felony into the only viable healthcare plan on the table.
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Premise hits harder than any earnest abortion-rights drama I've seen this decade. Refuses to lecture, just dramatizes the math, and the math is grim.
Reproductive-rights heist — Never Rarely Sometimes Always crossed with teen Hell-or-High-Water — is a sharp premise, but the page summary is barebones and offers little texture to gauge.
A heist whose stakes are reproductive rights — that's the kind of premise where the moral compression IS the form. Short logline but the conceptual swing is heavy.