2016 · thriller · survival · drama
Trapped
Directed by Dawn Porter1h 23m2016
TRAP (Targeted Regulations of Abortion Providers) laws have been passed by conservative state legislatures in the US and clinics have taken their fight to the courts. Follow the struggles of the clinic workers and lawyers who are on the front lines of a battle to keep abortion safe and legal for millions of American women.
Our read: Trapped (2016) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded thriller · survival · drama entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme thriller / survival, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- extreme
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