Vegan Joe Posted August 14, 2009 Share Posted August 14, 2009 http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/movies/14grace.html Madeline Matheson (Jordan Ladd) is a vegan, baby-sling-wearing, animal-loving mom who wouldn’t hurt a fly. That is, until flies start gathering around her baby, Grace, who’s awfully pale and emits an odor even a mother can’t love.Buy From Amazon Save to Netflix Queue Skip to next paragraph “Grace” is also the title of this chilly and slow-moving horror film, which plays with ideas of mother love, obsessive child rearing and liberal spinelessness, adding a helping of trendy vampirism. Ms. Ladd does admirably stoic work as a woman who insists on bringing her dead fetus to term and is rewarded with what appears to be a miracle but turns out to be a nightmare, especially when baby is hungry. While ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aryan Posted August 14, 2009 Share Posted August 14, 2009 Wait, so she miscarries, but decides to bring the (dead) baby up anyway? Or am I misunderstanding the plot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubby2112 Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 That sounds awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisjs Posted August 23, 2009 Share Posted August 23, 2009 Wait, so she miscarries, but decides to bring the (dead) baby up anyway? Or am I misunderstanding the plot?Miscarriage means the fetus is expelled... in this story it dies, she still carries it to term, then it becomes undead... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegan Joe Posted August 23, 2009 Author Share Posted August 23, 2009 I don't like these kind of stories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aryan Posted August 23, 2009 Share Posted August 23, 2009 Wait, so she miscarries, but decides to bring the (dead) baby up anyway? Or am I misunderstanding the plot?Miscarriage means the fetus is expelled... in this story it dies, she still carries it to term, then it becomes undead... Oh! Well that's good then. So she ends up living happily ever after with her husband and their baby right? I'm sure nothing out of the ordinary occurs as a result of her baby being temporarily dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisjs Posted August 23, 2009 Share Posted August 23, 2009 Oh! Well that's good then. So she ends up living happily ever after with her husband and their baby right? I'm sure nothing out of the ordinary occurs as a result of her baby being temporarily dead.Nothing except it being a vampire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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