Finn’s Girl

Dr. Finn Jefferies is many things: an expert in women's reproductive health, an abortion provider, a lesbian, and a single mom to Zelly, her out-of-control adolescent daughter. Finn's partner, Nancy, has been dead of breast cancer for a year, and Finn is struggling with all her commitments. The abortion clinic was Nancy's project, and though Finn has taken it over, her heart isn't in its administration. Her new girlfriend is a junior doctor at the clinic and is pressuring her to become more involved in their relationship. Zelly is too often left alone after school and is getting in trouble- swearing, stealing, and smoking pot in an expression of frustration with her unusual family situation. Zelly's dad shows up occasionally to ask Finn to give him custody rights. Abortion protesters are becoming violent, taking occasional shots at Finn and making threatening phone calls to Zelly. Meanwhile, there are a couple of cool cops assigned to guard the family. They spend so much time watching over the kid that they develop a friendship. FINN'S GIRL is a warm film that focuses less on the potentially sensationalistic elements of Finn's occupation and sexual orientation and more on the difficulties of a mother-daughter relationship. –BB