Posted on 03/17/2025 3:39:59 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
“Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer” (GVN) is a powerful dramatization of the Philadelphia police investigation and state prosecution that finally ended the infamous, decades-long career of abortionist Kermit Gosnell.
As proven in the procedure of the title, Gosnell, besides legally slaughtering the unborn, frequently perpetrated infanticide and endangered his adult clients with filthy conditions.
As it follows the work of police detective James Wood (Dean Cain) and assistant district attorney Alexis “Lexy” McGuire (Sarah Jane Morris), the film effectively indicts not only Gosnell himself — played here by Earl Billings — but the political bias of officials who shielded and enabled him. In a similar vein, it should be noted that, rather than being backed by anyone in Hollywood, the movie itself had to be financed via crowdfunding.
...Screenwriters Phelim McAleer, Ann McElhinney and Andrew Klavan, adapting McAleer and McElhinney’s 2017 best-seller, “Gosnell: The Untold Story of America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer,” keep the focus on the deceptively avuncular, weirdly unflappable physician’s breaches of current statutes. They obviously do so in the hope of winning over independent minded moviegoers.
Thus, as directed by Nick Searcy, who also plays Gosnell’s hard-driving defense attorney, Mike Cohan, the script mostly leaves it to viewers to recognize the wholly arbitrary distinction between extinguishing life within the womb and doing so, perhaps only moments later, outside it. A significant exception comes via the testimony of Dr. North (Janine Turner), a law-abiding peer of Gosnell’s.
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Yes. It very correctly showed the ghoulishness of the abortion industry and that of serial killer Gosnell.
I actually was involved in crowd funding for this movie years ago, but didn’t know it had come out.
May this movie help the light of Truth shine through the darkness that is the evil abortion industry and awaken people to its horrors.
"Oh, it's all legal, dontcha know."
I remember the courtroom was empty. No press.
it is tough to take.
I saw it in theaters.
It’s a very good movie.
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