Joy’s experience with the Janes allows her to reconsider her own buried ambitions, beyond being a wife and mother, and to recognize other opportunities where her voice can and should matter.
Impressed with the Janes’ bravery and feeling a sense of camaraderie with them, Joy quickly finds herself roped into their activities, soon volunteering more and more of her time to driving women to and from appointments, counselling them, helping them prepare and recover, and joining the other Jane members for organizing meetings.
The film, however, focuses too much on Joy’s individual personal growth, her family drama, and her ultimate role in expanding and deepening the Jane network. Employing one character—an outsider, no less, who comes into a pre-established group and then functions as a kind of innovative savior—to illuminate the history of an extensive network of exceptional women feels disingenuous.
While the film is artfully crafted and well-acted, the plot itself falls flat, with too much attention on Joy’s personal challenges and growth and too little on the Janes. Joy’s can-do spirit feels a bit without the comedy—not the right tone for an account of a collaborative, revolutionary group of women who put themselves at tremendous risk to procure safe abortions for desperate girls and women.
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