Overview
Holly Hunter plays a lonely, single, poorly educated Texan who finds herself pregnant with no means to support a child. To avoid giving up the child, she seeks an abortion. Denied an abortion in Texas the young woman hires a novice lawyer to plead her case in the US supreme court. Eventually the law is changed, but for the character it takes longer than nine months.
Cast
- Holly Hunter as Ellen Russell / Jane Doe
- Amy Madigan as Sarah Weddington
- Chris Mulkey as Ron Weddington
- Terry O'Quinn as Jay Floyd
- Stephen Tobolowsky as Darryl Horwath
- James Gammon as Jimmy Russell
- Dion Anderson as Bob Flowers
- Kathy Bates as Jessie
- Micole Mercurio as Ida Russell
- David Wohl as Terry Bowman