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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teachers - anyone remember this movie?  Nick Nolte plays a high school teacher who helps one of his students (Laura Dern I think) get an abortion without her parents’ knowledge.  No chance that would get made today.[/quote]

I don't remember that movie but your description makes it sound like a movie that actually could get made today. What do you think makes it out of line with current taste and sensibilities?[/quote]

The abortion storyline is one of many in a movie about a quirky high school.  Looking back on it now, the nonchalance is what I find most striking about it.  As if that’s just one of many things a teacher has to do.  At the end of the movie, Nick Nolte is a hero who presumably goes back to his job unscathed.  But if that happened today, it would be a Fox News nuclear bomb and he would be fired with extreme prejudice.  I guess this movie could be made now—if that was *the whole movie* and it was a very serious drama based on a true story or something.  But I don’t think there’s any chance it would be released now as it was in 1985.  Which would be a shame because it really is a great movie, especially the ending.[/quote]

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