Riding in Cars with Boys (PG-13, 2001)

Very educational movie. If you think about it, anyway. It's based on a true story. The main character girl makes mistake after mistake; she's clearly lost. She doesn't save herself for marriage, and she eventually gets pregnant (and thinks the baby is far worse than her fornication when the baby wasn't the problem at all). She debates with herself and her boyfriend on whether or not she should abort her child. Finally doing the right things, she keeps her baby and marries the father of her child. But, after a few years, she tells her husband to go away forever because of his addiction to drugs (instead of being patient with him, and really trying to help him). Later in her life, she becomes excessively controlling of her son; finally doing another right thing, she lets her son go to the college he wants to go to.This movie is a good depiction of what the state of fallen humanity is - lost. And we need help from Jesus. Although this movie really has nothing to do with God, it shows how life is for people when they have no guidance by not studying their Bibles, not listening to wisdom. (The only parts I would fast forward is a few lingering make-out scenes, and a brief parked-car-at-night-in-front-of-a-waterfall-at-a-park-looking-place. But these things are really only there to make the movie more realistic. There's nothing very explicit, though.)