Gimme Shelter, directed by Ronald Krauss, opens in theaters Friday. It follows the story of Apple, played by high School Musical star Vanessa Hudgens, as she makes it from an abusive home to a shelter for pregnant teens. The inspiration for the shelter, and indeed the entire movie, is the life’s work of Kathy DiFiore, who allowed Krauss to live in one of her homes for pregnant teens for a year while he wrote the script. (The character of Apple emerged as an amalgam of the stories he heard from the young mothers living there.) After a difficult divorce and subsequent period of homelessness, DiFiore felt called to open up her own home to teens with unplanned pregnancies and nowhere else to go. The movie, along with other films that address the issue of unplanned pregnancy raises the question: Why is an industry whose messaging is often at odds with traditional religious teaching so at home with the prolife ethic?
Posted on: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 12:26:39 +0000
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