2020 Movie
Dir. Eliza Hittman · United Kingdom, United States of America · English, Italian
A painfully realistic journey of unplanned teenage pregnancy
This difficult movie is about a seventeen-year-old from the U.S. underclass who has to deal with an unplanned pregnancy. Autumn is creative, reserved, and quiet, but those are not qualities that her environment in rural Pennsylvania seems to value. On the opposite, she is surrounded by threats, including disturbing step-father and boss characters.
Dangers escalate as Autumn decides to travel to New York to have an abortion. Never Rarely Sometimes Always is about unplanned pregnancies as much as it is about just how dangerous it is to be a teenage girl living in America.
A pair of teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania travel to New York City to seek out medical help after an unintended pregnancy.
"Above all, this is a drama of social fabric... the oppressive air of surveillance and terror sparked by the war against abortion."
— Richard Brody
"The most powerful moment in [Never Rarely Sometimes Always] is not one of confrontation but of self-realization."
— Devika Girish
Berlin
1 win
Spirit Awards
7 noms
Nat. Board of Review
2 wins · 1 nom
LAFCA
1 nom
Bilal Zouheir is the founder of A Good Movie to Watch. He is US-based and a member of the Nevada Film Critics Society. He grew up in Morocco, where he learned English from watching movies. Bilal's work with A Good Movie to Watch is focused on offering an alternative to streaming algorithms, which are often used as commercial tools by streaming services.
A movie written by someone who has never even been to, much less lived in, rural Pennsylvania. Someone whose idea of “rural” is any city with under 200,000 residents.