The movie Bella is a wonderful family movie that has been winning awards and rave reviews at film festivals across North America. Today and tomorrow, you will have the opportunity to see Bella as it opens in additional limited theaters across the nation.
Hollywood has tried to impede the distribution of this outstanding movie. While abortion is not directly mentioned, the pro-life theme of this heartwarming movie is unmistakable. We believe the life message in Bella is so powerfully and artfully presented, that it will save lives and change hearts.
Let’s send Hollywood a message that these are the kinds of films we want our families and our communities to see. A good showing at the box office today and tomorrow will help the theater owners make decisions to hold this movie over for showing over the Thanksgiving weekend and beyond, when many more people will have the opportunity to view it.
Please go see Bella today or tomorrow and take the entire family.
Bella is playing at the Warren Theater on East 13th in Wichita, Kansas, on Wednesday November 21st, and Thursday, November 22nd. (If you do not live in Wichita, please check local listings in your area for theaters and show times.)
SHOW TIMES are 1:20 – 4:20 – 7:10 – 10:15 both days.
TICKETS are $6.00 for matinees, and $8.00 after 6:00 p.m. For those 55 and over, and those 12 and under the price is always $6.00 at any showing.
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday!
For Life,
Troy Newman
President, Operation Rescue
I have seen this movie twice, and hope to go again while I can. It is beautifully done, and it has already saved the lives of several unborn children (and probably some of their mothers as well). I understand that Tammy Blanchard, who plays Nina, actually learned sometime near the end of filming this, that she was pregnant herself, by a “boyfriend” who left her upon learning that they had a child. Asked what she planned to do, she said, “well, after filming this, I’m hardly going to get an abortion! I’m keeping this baby.” Others have been inspired by this movie to choose life for babies they were thinking about aborting. No wonder. Nina powerfully articulates what so many women faced with a “surprise” pregnancy think and feel, especially in view of a culture that presents and protects child-killing as a “quick-fix solution”.
have not seen bella.
have seen lake of fire.
lake of fire is an interesting movie about abortion.
Recently, I became aware of this wonderful film while perusing the comments of Father Jonathan, a young Catholic cleric who is featured on Fox News’ website with some regularity. As an ex-Catholic, I don’t always agree with everything the priest intones; however, I’m not wholly divorced from it, either.
This is a brilliant, heartwarming film about the transforming power of love – family love, the dignity and worth of healthy friendships, and, last but certainly not least………the possibilities with which we can enact transending joy in the wake of wrenching tragedy.
This film resonated very, very deeply with me indeed. Although still pro choice, I have found, in recent months, that I must powerfully agree with the statement earlier this year of a local Catholic author and lecturer: A confluence of sin surrounded me 33 years ago. Thus, I have no difficulty judging my own situation – without casting judgments on others.
This deeply affecting film brought this point home: When kindness and compassion are conferred to others, wondrous events can occur. Difficulty and suffering may ensue, but they can (and sometimes should) be withstood.
I could not do so three decades ago – but I wish I could have brought joy and alleviation to someone else’s life. In so doing, I believe this may have helped me, too.
Run – don’t walk – to see “Bella.” Whether pro-choice or anti-choice – religionist or atheist – this film speaks to all of us who have compassion for others.
One word of caution: Owing to one agonizing scene, I would not recommend the film to pre-teenagers. Let us allow our young to be innocent of human tragedy – either to experience it or to observe it – if we can avoid it.
However, I must reiterate: By the film’s climactic closing scene, no one can avoid soulful reflection – and enduring respect. Moreover, the filmmakers show that respect for life must encompass all aspects of the human condition – something the male lead in this film makes very, very clear.
All in all – I’m glad I spent my Thanksgiving evening viewing “Bella” – and not spending undue time in anger and resentment. All things considered, I could have put the finishing touches on a vignette called “When Your Rapist Becomes a Cripple” and sent it to Saturday Night Live – but I saw this instructive film instead.
And that’s one choice that brings unfettered peace.
Great news! Not only is “Bella” being held over through the weekend (I saw it again yesterday) – but I just found out something exhilarating: This film is based on a TRUE STORY!!! Oh, my God – can it be?
Are there really people like this (i.e., the male lead) in this world of ours? Can it be true?
If there are (and evidently there are) – it just made my heart soar through the highest of heavens.
Of course, none of us would wish the horrific tragedy that befell this young man upon anyone. I, personally, do not feel that it should have ended his career aspirations. Succinctly, he was a good person.
Sadly, however, the best of humanity suffers more fully – because of their acute sensitivity and heightened conscience. If there is a God – I believe this is what He demands of us. One has only to compare the behavior of the other individual in the car (the manager) – and the protagonist’s searing agony – to see what I mean.
Oh…..to be able to offer joy and alleviation to someone like this – what a wonderful act of self-giving that would be.
Yesterday was November 23 – the 33rd anniversary of a damnable act (i.e., date rape) that I wish had never occurred. However, I’m pleased that I passed the afternoon viewing this cinematic jewel for the second time.
I would encourage everyone to see it – and see it again. Because, after you’ve seen it once – the opening scene carries much more resonance. Trust me.
It does not matter that I cannot go back in time. What does matter is this: when people work together to elicit the best in one another – they collaborate with God to effect wondrous things.
“Bella” is a film that none of us should avoid seeing – and pondering in our hearts long after the curtain closes.
As one of the thousands of American males who NOW regrets “My lost Fatherhood” I found “BELLA” is truly a mans film. The message that I took away, was that I will not be feminized by our secular culture, men must, and are taking back what is to be a real man. A real man does not let abortion continue within our society, a real man does not let abortion become birth control, a real man supports life, at any cost, and no matter how heavy the CROSS! Truly this was brought home in the last scene in “BELLA”.