Nurse Margaret Sanger became a pioneering crusader for women's reproductive rights after she published a booklet on birth control techniques that flew in the face of a law established by Anthony Comstock forbidding the dissemination of information on contraception. Sanger later helped to establish America's first birth control clinic in 1916, and in 1925 was one of the founders of Planned Parenthood.
Acting
Dana Delany transforms a saint into a complicated, exhausted human.
Production
Period detail that makes 1910s repression feel suffocatingly real.
Director
Paul Shapiro
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rod Steiger reportedly insisted on playing Comstock as genuinely convinced of his righteousness, not cartoon evil.
The real Sanger's complex legacy—including eugenics advocacy—is notably absent from this heroic portrayal.
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