Mom at Sixteen

TV Movie
2005
TV-14
1h 30m

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Mercedes Ruehl, Jane Krakowski, and Danielle Panabaker in Mom at Sixteen (2005)

Pregnant 16-year-old Jacey's well-meaning mother forces her to keep the birth a secret and decides to raise the baby as her own.Pregnant 16-year-old Jacey's well-meaning mother forces her to keep the birth a secret and decides to raise the baby as her own.Pregnant 16-year-old Jacey's well-meaning mother forces her to keep the birth a secret and decides to raise the baby as her own.

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6.6/10

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Awards
- 2 nominations total

Trivia
To keep the film as realistic and current and possible, most of the discussions in the health-class discussion scenes were improvised by the actors. Jane Krakowski would simply name a topic and the young actors would answer honestly.

Goofs
When Jacey is playing the DVD that Macy gave her, it says "For Charlie" on the DVD, but in the opening scene of the video it says "For Charley." The movie credits say that the baby's name is spelled Charley, meaning the name on the DVD is spelled wrong.

Quotes
Macy: And now you're the screw-up and I'm the good kid. I'm the one who they can point to and say "This is our good child. She only gets B's and C's, but she's the one who didn't get pregnant".
Jacey Jeffries: Shut up!

Connections
Featured in MsMojo: Top 10 Best Teen Pregnancy Movies (2019)

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Featured review

10/10

Done to death?

When I sat down to watch this it was purely because I had nothing else to do; this subject area's been done to death. Unlike anything else I've seen, this film showed the young mother's perspective and I could actually feel Jacey's pain as she didn't know whether she'd rather have her baby or keep her secret. I also think it showed the incredible sacrifices mothers will make; most other films and programmes about this subject show cold mothers who either kick their daughters out or resent them if they stay, which is not always the case. I would recommend this film to anyone and I hope to see Danielle Panabaker in something else soon as her acting is second-to-none.