- Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story
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This article is about the 1995 movie about Margaret Sanger. For the 1983 movie "Choices of the Heart" about religious murders in El Salvador, see Choices of the Heart.
Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story Directed by Paul Shapiro (director) Produced by Jennifer Alward Written by Matt Dorff Starring Dana Delany
Henry Czerny
Rod Steiger
Julie KhanerMusic by Jonathan Goldsmith Cinematography Alar Kivilo Editing by Paul DiCiaula Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Release date(s) 8 March 1995 Running time 92 mins. Country United States Language English Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story (1995) is a TV-movie about the controversial nurse Margaret Sanger who campaigned in the early 1900s in the United States for women's reproductive rights.[1]
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Plot
The New York Times wrote this summary overview: "Dana Delany stars in this made-for-TV movie as Margaret Sanger, a nurse who, in 1914, became a pioneering crusader for women's reproductive rights after she published a booklet on birth control techniques that flew in the face of a law established by Anthony Comstock (Rod Steiger) forbidding the dissemination of information on contraception. Sanger later helped to establish America's first birth control clinic in 1916, and in 1925 was one of the founders of Planned Parenthood."[2]
Critical commentary
New York Times television critic John J. O'Connor wrote the movie describes an "extraordinary woman whose contraception crusade eventually led to the founding of Planned Parenthood", adding that the movie "camouflages its sketchiness with some fine performances."[3]
Cast
Margaret Sanger
- Dana Delany as Margaret Sanger
- Henry Czerny as Bill Sanger
- Rod Steiger as Anthony Comstock
- Julie Khaner as Anita Block
- Tom McCamus as Mr. Schlesinger
- Wayne Robson as Ed Cady
- Yank Azman as Arnold Scopes
- Jeff Pustil as Heller
- Kenneth Welsh as Mr. Higgins
- Jason Priestley as Narrator
- Ron Hartman as Dr. Benjamin
- Catherine Barroll as Nan Higgins
- Nicu Branzea as Leo Krulic
- Patrick Galligan as D.A. Whitman
- Sandra Crljenica as Peggy Sanger
- Blake McGrath as Stuart Sanger
- Lachlan Murdoch as Grant Sanger
- Heidi von Paleske as Mabel Dodge
- Henriette Ivanans as Sadie Sachs
- Dan Lett as Reporter #2
- Maria Vacratsis as Emma Goldman
- Les Porter as Reporter #3
- Martin Julien as Jake Sachs
- John Gilbert as Utermeyer
- James B. Douglas as Judge McInery
- Addison Bell as Bailiff
- Peter Spence as Driver at Port
- Elva Mai Hoover as N.Y. Librarian
- Tony Munch as Bohemian #1
- Michael Dyson as Bohemian #2
References
- ^ "Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story (1995)(TV)". IMDb (The Internet Movie Database). 1995-03-08. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112664/. Retrieved 2009-07-29.
- ^ Mark Deming (1995). "Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story (1995)". The New York Times. http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/251947/Choices-of-the-Heart-The-Margaret-Sanger-Story/overview. Retrieved 2009-07-29.
- ^ John J. O'Connor (1995-03-07). "Critic's Notebook; TV Movies and TV Echoing A Movie". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/07/arts/critic-s-notebook-tv-movies-and-tv-echoing-a-movie.html. Retrieved 2009-07-29.
External links
Categories:- English-language films
- 1990s drama films
- 1995 films
- American drama films
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