Video Review

Rain Without Thunder (1995)

EW's GRADE
C-

Details Movie Rated: PG-13; Genre: Drama; With: Betty Buckley and Jeff Daniels

Can you imagine a harder sell to movie audiences than a dreary fantasy about America in 2042, where women are arrested for having abortions? No? Then imagine one pieced together from static ''interviews'' given the characters in one such test case (including Jeff Daniels as a defense lawyer) — which, not surprisingly, did miserably in theaters. The legal and social history of such a future is horrifyingly convincing, and about as pleasant to endure as a teacher's knuckle-rapping. Rain Without Thunder's scary sermon won't be any easier to sell to video audiences, not even the already converted.

Originally posted Oct 27, 1995 Published in issue #298 Oct 27, 1995 Order article reprints

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