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Carrie’s Choice alternates between present-day Carrie, nine months pregnant with a successful career and loving husband, and 1985 Carrie. In 1985, Carrie was a 19 year-old college sophomore living paycheck to paycheck working as a waitress. 1985 Carrie has a scholarship to study overseas, and a new boyfriend she's wild about. As we follow the young love story we flash forward to modern day as Carrie contractions begin.
In 1985, Carrie and Ted, her new boyfriend, decide to have sex. Unprotected sex. By the time Carrie's roommate Becky insists that she go on birth control pills it is too late...Carrie is already pregnant.
Carrie has choices and she considers each one. She talks to Ted, who wants to keep the baby but has no ability to support it. She talks to Becky, who shares her perspective as an adopted child. She goes to her university dean, who tells her it’s now or never for the overseas scholarship. She asks a minister, who gently reminds her of the church’s hopes. Finally, unable to face her parents, she turns to her grandma, who simply tells her she must decide in her heart what is right for her.
After weighing each point of view and searching her heart and mind, having an abortion seems the right alternative for Carrie, given all the factors. She makes the appointment and tells Ted. He cannot reconcile her choice with his beliefs and the relationship ends.
In the final scene, audiences are brought back to the older Carrie, her contractions have accelerated, and she has her loving husband by her side. Her life is unfolding as it was meant to be, for her, because she made the right choice earlier in life. In the end, Carrie’s decision is not so much pro-abortion as it is pro-choice, in the true sense of the term.
Film McQueen Production Company
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