Main Cast: Carolyn McCormick, Ali Thomas, Betty Buckley, Iona Morris, Jeff Daniels
Release Year: 1993
Country: US
Run Time: 99 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG13
Plot
Rain Without Thunder is a "pro-choice" tract, expertly packaged in the form of speculative fiction. In a futuristic society, abortion is a crime punishable by a harsh prison term, and all female sexual activity is electronically monitored. When young Ali Thomas chooses not to bring her unborn child to term, she is thrown into jail. And since her mother (Betty Buckley) had driven Thomas to the abortionist, she too is arrested--charged with kidnapping the fetus! The filmmakers wear their ideology on both sleeves, but one cannot deny that Rain Without Thunder drives its point home forcefully. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Frederic Forrest - Walker Point Warden; Linda Hunt - Atwood Society Director; Steve Zahn - Jeremy Tanner; Robert Earl Jones - Old Lawyer; Graham Greene - Author on History; Austin Pendleton - Catholic Priest; Helen Lloyd Breed - Alice Kappelhoff; Dianne Kirksey - Mother Breatfeeding; Paul Lazar; Heather Lilly - Micka Goldring; Ethan Phillips - Gynecologist; Susanne Wasson - Swedish Doctor; Ming-Na Wen; Eliza Clark - Piper Goldring; Bahni Turpin - "Baby Bomb" Prisoner; Lisa Langford - "In Profile" Prisoner; John Scott - 1st Health Official
Credit
Susan Willett - Casting, Gail Bartley - Costume Designer, Gary O. Bennett - Director, Mallory Gottlieb - Editor, Suzanne Pillsbury - Editor, Michael Mihalich - Executive Producer, Ina Mayhew - Production Designer, Karl Kases - Cinematographer
Rain Without Thunder is a 1993 movie directed by Gary Bennet and starring Betty Buckley and Jeff Daniels. Set in the future where abortion is outlawed in the US, a mother and daughter are put on trial for murdering a fetus.
