‘Unpregnant’ Review: Haley Lu Richardson Hits the Road in HBO Now’s Edgy Teen Comedy
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variety.comAmy Nicholson For the first time in her high school career, 17-year-old valedictorian Veronica (Haley Lu Richardson) has flunked a test.
That blue positive sign means she’s pregnant, and now she wants a redo — to become “Unpregnant,” in the words of director Rachel Lee Goldenberg (“Valley Girl”), who has a flair for the flip understatement.
Goldenberg’s road-trip comedy, based on the novel by Jenni Hendriks and Ted Caplan, has no time for hemming and hawing. To obtain an abortion without her conservative parents’ permission, the popular blonde must make a 2,000-mile drive from Missouri to New Mexico in 48 hours, which, with Type-A aplomb, she calculates is doable if she stops only for bathroom breaks and, like, the actual procedure.
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