Director Rachel Lee Goldenberg has had a busy year with her adaptation of the 1983 film “Valley Girl,” as well as work on the television series “Everything’s Gonna Be Okay.” Her latest is the HBO Max film “Unpregnant” starring Haley Lu Richardson and “Euphoria’s” Barbie Ferreira. The film follows the two girls as one of them needs to travel out of state for an abortion in order to avoid telling her parents.

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It is 2020 and abortion is still legal thanks to Roe v. Wade—legislation that Republicans would love to terminate—but laws and restrictions still vary from state to state with dozens of states, often the conservative Red States, still aiming to make it difficult or next to impossible to safely and legally end a pregnancy. Enter “Unpregnant,” a new HBO MAX movie from producer Greg Berlanti (shepherd of The CW’s Arrowverse), that comes on the heels of Georgia’s six-week abortion ban being struck down and the state’s abortion laws being under siege ever since the Trump administration took over.

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Though it doesn’t have the same cultural cache as “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” “Sixteen Candles,” or “The Breakfast Club,” Martha Coolidge’s 1983 film, “Valley Girl,” beat John Hughes to the punch with a film that mixes realistic teen problems and a New Wave soundtrack, endearing it by an entire generation of audiences. Sure, looking back at it today, the film feels dated and cringey (as it’s a clear product of an era), but back in the early-‘80s, “Valley Girl” was downright revolutionary.

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Remakes of popular films from the ‘80s are nothing new. Hollywood has done that trick a million times. But with the upcoming remake of “Valley Girl,” which starred a young Nicolas Cage, the filmmakers decided to give it a musical twist.

As seen in the trailer for the film, “Valley Girl” follows the story of an adult woman explaining the ‘80s to her daughter. How was life in the ‘80s?

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