Unpregnant | 2020 | PG-13 | – 5.4.5

Why is “Unpregnant” rated PG-13? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “mature thematic content, sexual content, strong language and some drug references.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes several implied sex scenes between two teens leading to an unplanned pregnancy, a teen girl and a young woman kiss, and a teen undergoes an abortion procedure in a women’s health clinic; two teens steal a car and are nearly caught by police, two teens try to jump onto a train, two teens argue in several scenes and accept rides from people they do not know, and at least 1 F-word and other strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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When a Missouri teen girl (Haley Lu Richardson) finds out that she is pregnant, she realizes that restrictions on legal abortions prevent her from scheduling a procedure in her state, and she has to plan a road trip to the nearest women’s health clinic, which is in New Mexico. Needing a ride and a companion, she has to convince an estranged childhood friend (Barbie Ferreira) to drive her there. Also with Giancarlo Esposito, Alex MacNicoll, Breckin Meyer, Sugar Lyn Beard, Denny Love, Mary McCormack and Betty Who. Directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg. A few lines of dialogue are spoken in Klingon with English subtitles. [Running Time: 1:43]

Unpregnant SEX/NUDITY 5

 – A teen girl flashes back to having sex with her boyfriend several times in various locations: we see them in a bed with the teen boy thrusting on top of the teen girl and they are both moaning, and we hear a few other scenes with them both moaning (condom packages are seen).
► A teen girl and a young woman walk through a funhouse at a carnival and seem flirtatious; they slide down a slide into a ball pit and they kiss. A teen girl and a man hug in friendship.
► A teen girl seems enamored with a young woman when they are introduced. A teen boy tells a teen girl that the condom they used during one sexual encounter broke and that he didn’t tell her; she becomes upset because she has just discovered that she is pregnant. A teen girl tells a teen boy that she is pregnant and he proposes to her. A teen girl tells another teen girl that she likes girls. Many teens in a high school discuss whose pregnancy test was found in a dumpster outside the school. A teen girl calls a women’s health clinic and is told that the nearest place for her to have an abortion without parental consent is New Mexico (she lives in Missouri). A teen girl searches the internet for a women’s health clinic that performs abortions. A teen girl talks about another teen girl being out of school due to “lady issues.” A teen girl tells a teen boy that his fly is open and he becomes embarrassed. A woman goes out on a date and her teen daughter tells her that she looks “hot.”
► A woman in a women’s health clinic describes an abortion procedure to a teen girl, who says she’s nervous; we see the teen undergoing a vaginal ultrasound (we do not see any flesh or the monitor screen), we see her having blood drawn and then see her in a recovery area waking up from anesthesia. A teen girl takes a pregnancy test (we see that the results are positive) in a school bathroom and we see her seated on the toilet (we see her knees and calves); someone else comes into the room and peeks over the stall wall.
► A woman wears a low-cut dress that reveals cleavage. A young woman’s crop top reveals her bare abdomen.

Unpregnant VIOLENCE/GORE 4

 – Two teen girls accept a ride from a man and a woman; they discover that the couple wants to keep them from getting to an appointment at a women’s clinic and they steal the couple’s car and speed away chased by the man in an RV until the girls drive the car over a ridge (they jump out unharmed) and the man thinks that they have been hurt. Two teen girls go into a pawnshop and the woman behind the counter holds a shotgun on a teen boy when he comes in and hassles one of the teen girls. A teen girl approaches her estranged father and he is dismissive of her and tells her to leave; another teen girl yells at him and tasers him before the two girls run away.
► Police surround a vehicle in a diner parking lot and a teen girl inside confesses that she took the car from her mom’s boyfriend and didn’t ask; the teens run out of the diner and away from the police. A teen girl speeds off a highway when she sees that a police car is behind her. A teen girl squeals her car’s tires as she speeds out of a parking lot. A teen boy stands up in a diner and sings to create a distraction so two teen girls can get away from the police that’s looking for them. People watch a car race and one car runs into a wall and another wins the race and purposely spins around throwing up dirt from the track. Two teen girls stand up through a sunroof in a limousine and sing songs while the car is being driven on a two-lane highway.
► A woman in a women’s health clinic describes an abortion procedure to a teen girl, who says she’s nervous; we see the teen undergoing a vaginal ultrasound (we do not see any flesh or the monitor screen), we see her having blood drawn and then see her in a recovery area waking up from anesthesia. Two teen girls run toward a speeding freight train and countdown to jump on (they do not jump). A man stabs a knife into a can of beans and eats off the blade; he later eats an apple slice off the blade. A teen girl yells at her boyfriend for tracking her and she knocks the phone out of his hands and stomps on it, breaking it.
► A teen girl stands on railroad tracks and yells angrily about the lack of access to women’s health care generally but particularly in Missouri. A teen boy threatens to tell everyone that a teen girl is having an abortion if she insists on breaking up with him. A woman threatens to sew two teen girls together like a “human centipede.” A teen girl becomes upset when her boyfriend tells her that the condom they used during a sexual encounter broke and she says that if she had known, she could have taken the morning-after pill, but now she is pregnant. A teen girl reprimands another teen girl for being irresponsible. A teen girl argues with another teen girl and says that she has been acting like she was assimilated into the “Borg.” A teen girl remembers when she was younger overhearing a friend’s parent arguing about separating. Two teen girls argue bitterly and one leaves the other. A teen girl talks to her mother about her decision to have an abortion and says that she does not regret the decision. A teen girl plans a trip, concocts a story to tell her parents and convinces a friend to drive her to New Mexico to have an abortion. A teen girl yells at another teen girl about a time when she, “puked” on her birthday cake.
► A teen girl runs out of a restaurant and vomits in a garbage can on the sidewalk (we see goo). Several people are shown in and around a dumpster outside a school and one person holds what we understand to be a pregnancy test. A teen girl takes a pregnancy test in a school bathroom (we hear urine trickle and we see urine in the toilet when she stands up); she drops the test stick on the floor when someone else comes into the bathroom. Two teen girls drive through a dirt road where there are cow bones and carcasses and we hear crunching as they drive over them.

Unpregnant LANGUAGE 5

 – About 1 F-word, the term “Wtfff” in a text message, 2 sexual references, 3 obscene hand gestures, 7 scatological terms, 10 anatomical terms, 13 mild obscenities, name-calling (Jesus Freak, fake, crazy, uncomplicated, Ivy League, loners, skeazy dump, creepy, stalker, stupid, hobo, problematic, gross, idiot, intense, hot lesbian, nuts, weirdo, weird), exclamations (screw you, ugh, shoot, oh, okay, relax, stop, oh my gosh, ooh whoo, willy-nilly, whoa, oh man, we gotta go, hush, darn, oh come on, not great, OK fine, I swear, I’m kidding, oh darn it, calm down, shut-up, what now, got it, what the heck, easy, come on, dang, freakin’), 1 religious profanity (GD), 22 religious exclamations (e.g. Oh My God, God, Amen, Jesus, Thank The Lord, Godsend, a man says a prayer over a meal, a portrait of the Pope hangs on a wall). | profanity glossary |

Unpregnant SUBSTANCE USE

 – A teen girl tells another teen girl that she was “smoking a joint” on school property, and a teen girl talks about a locker in school being found full of Adderall. Several people in the back of a pickup truck drink from cans of beer, and a teen boy offers a teen girl a beer and she says that she does not drink.

Unpregnant DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Teen pregnancy, abortion, friendship, trust, pro-life, pro-choice, parental consent, access to women’s health care.

Unpregnant MESSAGE

 – Friends help each other through the most challenging times. Women’s health care options should be available everywhere and to everyone.