Acting
Fish Bowl is a dark comedy about Zoe, a woman who experiences a miscarriage at her wedding rehearsal dinner. Its unique tone, which expertly straddles laugh-out-loud comedy and heartbreaking drama, depicts the reality of losing an unwanted pregnancy. Pregnancy loss is extremely common yet grossly under-depicted in TV and film. Here in the US, dangerous abortion laws are passing everyday. Fish Bowl is a radically pro-choice film that needs to be seen. A haunting score comopsed by Nandi Rose, known for her own music as Half Waif, provides a powerful undercurrent for writer, director, and lead actor Rachel Sweeney’s tour de force performance.
Rachel dreams of performing Shakespeare on Broadway. Instead, she's playing a corpse on television's latest pulp-fest, Minds of Crime. Rachel is haunted by a deep dissatisfaction that threatens her relationship with her boyfriend David. The experience of playing dead has her questioning the value of living.
A group of college students develop an underground network that helps women get abortions in the pre-Roe vs. Wade Chicago.
It's 1967 and British pop sensations Norman's Normans have accidentally blasted off a rocket from the British Space Agency and landed on a planet of all women. When the princess falls for lead singer Norman, the queen imprisons the British invaders. Can they use their catchy rhythms to win over the girls of Hormone and help them make peace with the neighboring planet of men, all the while finding a way back home to Earth?
