If These Walls Could Talk (1996)

Director
Cher; Nancy Savoca

Main cast
Demi Moore; Shirley Knight; Catherine Keener; Jason London; CCH Pounder

Genres
TV Movie, Drama

Description
If These Walls Could Talk follows the plights of three different women and their experiences with abortion. Each of the three stories takes place in the same house in three different years: 1952, 1974, and 1996.


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