“Gosnell: The Trial 0f America’s Biggest Serial Killer” Is a Movie That Should Be seen By Everyone

“Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer” (GVN Releasing)

For those of you who remember the accusations and subsequent trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell you might wonder why a movie was never made of this sordid blot on American history. Well there has been. It is titled “Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer” and it is playing in 673 movie theaters across the country. This is only a few when you compare it to the 3,521 theaters showing “Goosebumps 2”. Still it is hoped you can find a theater close enough to see this film.

It is a movie that needs to be seen whether you are Pro-life or Pro-Choice. According to this movie, which is based on transcripts and other data, Gosnell performed abortions on request. And he did it in the most squalid of places, using people who were not qualified to render medical assistance with him. The places where he performed the abortions were not sterile or even necessarily clean. He used instruments over and over without sterilizing them. It was every person with a brain’s worst nightmare, and he got away with it for years.

The movie starts with the discovery of allegations against Dr. Gosnell, his arrest and then his trial. There are flashbacks during the film that show the events that happened at his clinic and they are scarier than anything showing in “Halloween”. The depth of this man’s depravity is shown one step at a time and grows until it reaches a mountain of evidence.

Dean Cain portrays a police detective involved with the case, Sarah Jane Morris plays Lexy McGuire who is the Assistant District Attorney who prosecutes the case. Both Cain and Morris do good work, but it is Nick Searcy and Earl Billings who give the emotional heft to the film. Searcy appears as Mike Cohan, Gosnell’s defense attorney, and Billings lets himself be absorbed by the role of Gosnell. These two men play the “villains” of the piece and they hit the mark of audiences’ emotions.

Those who are Pro-Choice and see this film can use it as an argument that no woman should ever be placed in these circumstances in order to fulfill a decision she has made. Those who are Pro-Life can see it and argue that people like Dr. Gosnell exist because the world turns a blind eye even against evil when it is cloaked in the words of abortion rights.

The movie is rated PG-13 for profanity and scenes of medical violence.

The most frightening aspect of this film is that Dr. Gosnell never pleads insanity in response to the charges of murder. He is shown to be a person who thinks his actions were justified. That reality is what sinks in over the course of this film.

Search this movie out. It won’t be easy to find it but it is worth seeing.

I scored “Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer”” an aborted 7 out of 10.

Jackie K Cooper

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