Mom at Sixteen

2005 "It's about the choices you make next."
6.6| 1h28m| en
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Pregnant sixteen year old Jacey's well-meaning mother forces her to keep the birth a secret and decides to raise the baby as her own.

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Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.
AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
the_butch i came into this movie thinking it was just another same ole, bad acting lifetime movie that i caught on TV the other day so thought i'd sit through it. i sensed the kind of vibe the movie was trying to set within the first 10 mins and thought it'd head the way movies of a similar nature would go. but the movie got me hooked the more i watched and in the end, it caught me off guard in the most unexpected way.i won't spoil it, but will just say that i was real surprised by this movie, being that it was a movie made for TV. powerful performances by danielle panabaker, jane krakowski and mercedes ruehl, and just, in general, a good, emotional story about the journey of a young mother.now, THIS is what a made-for-TV movie should be like
jennifer murray When I sat down to watch this it was purely because I had nothing else to do; this subject area's been done to death. Unlike anything else I've seen, this film showed the young mother's perspective and I could actually feel Jacey's pain as she didn't know whether she'd rather have her baby or keep her secret. I also think it showed the incredible sacrifices mothers will make; most other films and programmes about this subject show cold mothers who either kick their daughters out or resent them if they stay, which is not always the case. I would recommend this film to anyone and I hope to see Danielle Panabaker in something else soon as her acting is second-to-none.
Kaitlynn Hatch This was the most amazing and touching movie I ever saw. I'm a teenager who's mom got pregnant at a young age and she tells me nothing about her troubles as a pregnant teen so I think that this movie was very helpful and inspirational. When this girl got pregnant, she was faced with humiliation and the fact of raising a child but through it all she got to see what was right and I was just touched by this movie. If I ever got pregnant and gave the child up, I couldn't forgive myself but it was good to see that she could be a role model to all teenagers who want or have a baby. The fact that there are people who are trying to have a baby and can't and people who have a baby that don't want it is a fact that everybody should know.
Bello-4 For the most part I really enjoyed this movie (contains some vague possible spoilers).... The script was really there, wasn't at all unreal with a few minor exceptions. And the actors really were on their game. In particular singling out the ever talented Danielle Panabaker, whom I've really been a fan of for a long while and feel she really has a future in the acting world. The mother of a child at only sixteen, she as did her character's family, demonstrated that having a child so young is really hard and isn't something that should be taken lightly. So often you'd expect to see a family rallying to the cause in a movie such as this, but in this movie you didn't and because her world wasn't coming up roses despite the fact of having had a child really made it all the more interesting.What wasn't interesting however, and where those exceptions come into play, was when it started to become preachy documentary. As you would expect for a movie of this type, it quoted facts and statistics and then had what I'd call a "7th Heaven" moment in the school auditorium. I may be saying the wrong thing here, but since when have schools given more than a fleeting conversation or class time to such a thing as teen pregnancy? Maybe that's what's wrong with schools? I myself can only remember one and only one health class in my four years of high school, and that was more about STD's. I'm also not belittling teen mom's, but on parade? Didn't we at all expect that at some point in the movie once Jacey started hanging out with the other teen mothers? Maybe perhaps it would take something like that to scare kids into changing their ways, like putting a wrecked out car on the school front lawn to demonstrate the possible consequences of drunk driving, but I'd more likely guess that today's kids are rather very set in their ways. Cause even wreaked out cars aren't keeping our children from in some cases drinking and driving themselves to death.I lastly had a serious problem with the girls choice of dress and the guys reaction to them. I couldn't imagine a girl being allowed into my school, or most any reputable school dressed such as some of these girls were dressed. And guys hooting and hollering at them such as they were? Do I dare ask if that even goes on? Overall I really enjoyed this movie. I didn't so much like the preachy moments as stated above. But I also liked how such an event as befell Jacey wasn't just a speed bump in the road of her family's life but rather a train wreck. Cause sure, by the end of the movie it was all roses, but it definitely didn't start out that way.Bello