Pro-Life Motion Picture Opens Nationwide in MarchOctober Baby is based on the real-life survival of Gianna Jessen.
by TIM DRAKE
02/14/2012
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — When filmmakers Jon and Andrew Erwin tackled October Baby, they knew that their movie was imitating life. The film is loosely based on the life of abortion survivor Gianna Jessen.
What they didn’t know is that their art was imitating life in more
ways than one, through the story of one of the film’s actresses.
The part road-trip, part-romance drama follows the journey of Hannah,
a college freshman who learns that she was adopted and the survivor of a
failed abortion attempt. She sets out to find her birth mother and ends
up learning a lesson about forgiveness. The film is being distributed
by Sony’s Provident Films and opens in theaters nationwide March 23.
Among its stars, it features actors Jon Schneider and Jasmine Guy.
After being asked to consider the role of Hannah’s birth mother and
reading the script, actress Shari Rigby called co-director Jon Erwin,
and asked, “How did you know?”
