Unraveling the Secrets of Her Life... "October Baby"

Every Life is Beautiful...

The Story:

Hannah (Rachel Hendrix) collapses at a theater performance.  After conducting some medical tests, she realizes that the reasons she has been medically challenged was due to her very difficult birth...oh and by the way, you're adopted.  Her parents (John Schneider and Jennifer Price) had always meant to tell her, but time has a way of slipping by.  Angered, Hannah wants to go on a road trip with her friend Jason (Jason Burkey) to find her birth mother and find out why she wasn't wanted.  Along the way, she'll find out even more secrets...

First and foremost, this is a Christian movie.  It does not beat you about the head and shoulders with a message though, except maybe the tagline of the film, but it does have an uplifting premise.

For those that are still with me...

Abortion plays heavily into the message.

Again, while very much a Pro-Life stance, they do not go on ugly rants against Pro-Choice beliefs or anything of that nature.

Still with me?

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As I have said before with the influx of Christian-themed movie... Yay!  Glad to see them.  The more movie choices for Christians, for families, and for movie-goers in general, I'm always in favor of it.

They've come a long way since the first films of the mainstream genre of the last 20 years or so.

Bigger budgets. Better actors. Better acting. Better stories.

And again, I emphasize what I wrote earlier: You don't have to preach the message over and over when you can have it unfold naturally under the current of the film.

That, I believe, this film does rather nicely.

When Hannah discovers that she is adopted, she feels hurt and betrayed by the people she thought were her parents.  They still are.

Naturally she wants to know why her mother didn't want her.

When she learns that she survived an abortion attempt... imagine the self-esteem hit she takes to find out she REALLY wasn't wanted.


Heartbreaking. Uplifting. Sad. Funny.

All weaved throughout the film, and it was very well done.


Now available for streaming on Netflix as of this writing.

Final Grade: B

Would I Own It: Maybe. Really good film, but dramas are a toughie.  I could watch it again down the road though.