The Pregnancy Pact

Wall Street JournalDorothy Rabinowitz

Program disputes aren't what fires this drama's energies—the credit belongs to a sharp script (Pamela Davis) and characters who come roaring to life in surprising ways.

VarietyBrian Lowry

Credit Lifetime with an earnest attempt to tackle an important issue, down to the obligatory public-service announcement and outreach campaign. Any resemblance between this and a fully realized movie, however, is purely coincidental.

Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert

This could have been a movie about how the pact theory found irresistible momentum in the media, or about the bonds between pregnant teens, or about a conservative mother’s shame when her daughter gets pregnant. Instead, it’s a mishmash of facts, misinformation, and bland storytelling, one that fails both as truth and as fiction.

Boston HeraldMark A. Perigard

The telefilm never pinpoints a motive for the girls’ behavior, so it casts about, laying blame at peer pressure, a poverty of imagination, working-class desperation and even Jamie Lynn Spears’ pregnancy, hoping one will stick. It’s blather.