17 Girls

17 Girls is a 2011 French coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Delphine and Muriel Coulin and starring Louise Grinberg as a teenage girl who becomes pregnant, later influencing 16 other girls at her school to become pregnant as well. The film had its premiere at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, before being theatrically released in France on 14 December 2011. The film was inspired by an alleged pregnancy pact which took place at Gloucester High School in Massachusetts in 2008, which the 2010 American film The Pregnancy Pact is also based on. Plot In Lorient, Camille is a teenage girl who finds herself pregnant by a one-time sexual partner after the condom breaks. Camille lives with her overworked single mother whom she views as a neglectful parent, while her older brother has recently come home from being overseas fighting in the War in Afghanistan. She confides her pregnancy in her four friends – the follower Julia, the intelligent Flavie, the childlike Clémentine, and the practical Mathilde – and is unsure of whether she wants to have an abortion. Camille ultimately decides to keep the baby, as she thinks that it will push her to make something of her life and that a child would provide her with unconditional love. As rumors surrounding Camille's pregnancy spread throughout their school, Florence, an unpopular student whom Camille and her friends repeatedly rebuff, confides in Camille that she is also pregnant, leading Camille to invite her to join her group of friends. Camille informs her mother that she is pregnant and keeping the baby, which leads to an argument between the two where Camille claims that she will be a more understanding mother to her future child than her mother is to her.