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This is Jane
- Dan Loflin
- Set Up
- Drama
- 2017
- Black List
- 73.6
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Market: Tue, 25 Apr 2017Sold: Fri, 05 May 2017
Producer: John Lesher, Peter Heller
Executive: Dan Loflin, Sean Murphy
AgentAntoni Kaczmarek, Martin M. To, Varun Monga (ESA)
ManagerPeter Heller (Heller Highwater Productions)
StudioAmazon Studios
ProductionLe Grisbi Productions
Based on the book "The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service by Laura Kaplan," which was was covered by The New York Times on 4/22/2017. Script sold to Amazon for six-figures. Subsequently, out to directors as ODA.
Producer: John Lesher, Peter Heller
Executive: Dan Loflin, Sean Murphy
AgentAntoni Kaczmarek, Martin M. To, Varun Monga (ESA)
ManagerPeter Heller (Heller Highwater Productions)
StudioAmazon Studios
ProductionLe Grisbi Productions
Based on the book "The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service by Laura Kaplan," which was was covered by The New York Times on 4/22/2017. Script sold to Amazon for six-figures. Subsequently, out to directors as ODA.
Chronicles the efforts of a woman in Chicago and the underground abortion clinic she founded before Roe v. Wade.
A woman creates an underground abortion service under the monicker "Jane" to provide women in Chicago with safe abortions before Roe v. Wade.
After enduring a treacherous, illegal, abortion in the years before Roe v. Wade, a woman creates an underground abortion clinic in Chicago, run by a small army of women known as 'Jane'.
After having difficulty obtaining her own abortion, a woman founds an underground abortion service in Chicago under the name 'Jane' in the years leading up to Roe v. Wade.
Film
Film, Non-Fiction, Female Protagonist, Character Study, Biopic, Drama, Period, Vigilante, Political, Adaptation, Social Commentary, Historical, Doctor, Female, Friends/Friendship, Husband/Wife, Illness, Pregnancy, Secret Identity, True Story, Undercover
120
R
Low
F
Unspecified
29
Average
Dallas Buyers Club, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Suffragette, Iron Jawed Angels
Chicago in the late 60's to early 70's/Five years
Chicago, hospital, various apartments, accounting office, mall, police station, doctor's office, various motels, inside a car and paddy wagon.
A cop, SOBCHECK (Late 40s), stares at JENNY (29) in a police interrogation room. We then flash back to four years earlier, where Jenny is in a radiation session for her cancer. The session stops and her doctor, DR. MURRAY (50), informs her she is pregnant.
Abortion is illegal without the approval of a hospital panel, and Murray tells Jenny she has to take the baby to term, pausing the tradition sessions until then. Angry, she leaves and calls her husband unsuccessfully. She joins a passing Anti-Vietnam protest, but partially loses consciousness as police arrive and the situation gets violent. She is hauled off by a woman named CLAIRE (?).
She awakes in the ER. Cops are there and the nurse tells her they are there to make sure she wasn’t trying to abort the baby. Jenny’s family arrives: her husband, GLEN (?), and her daughters, CASEY (3) and AUDREY (5 months).
That night, Jenny and Glen watch news coverage of the protest. Glen pleads her not to go out into anymore dangerous situations given her illness and that the kids need her. He doesn’t know about the pregnancy.
The hospital board declines Jenny for an abortion. However, on the way out of...
Abortion is illegal without the approval of a hospital panel, and Murray tells Jenny she has to take the baby to term, pausing the tradition sessions until then. Angry, she leaves and calls her husband unsuccessfully. She joins a passing Anti-Vietnam protest, but partially loses consciousness as police arrive and the situation gets violent. She is hauled off by a woman named CLAIRE (?).
She awakes in the ER. Cops are there and the nurse tells her they are there to make sure she wasn’t trying to abort the baby. Jenny’s family arrives: her husband, GLEN (?), and her daughters, CASEY (3) and AUDREY (5 months).
That night, Jenny and Glen watch news coverage of the protest. Glen pleads her not to go out into anymore dangerous situations given her illness and that the kids need her. He doesn’t know about the pregnancy.
The hospital board declines Jenny for an abortion. However, on the way out of...