When successful pro-choice prosecutor Ann Brown(Deborah Flora) is asked to take on a complex caseinvolving partial-birth abortion, she reluctantlyaccepts after being threatened by attorney TomCondan (Ned Vaughn). As the case unfolds, the filmbecomes a powerful thriller that forces you toexamine the evidence for yourself. This haunting,fast-paced shocker contains scenes that may be toographic for younger viewers.

Comments from Netflix Customers - I was quite surprised to the well produced and well acted short dramasurrounding an abortion case dealing with Partial Birth Abortion Amazingly itcontains no stereotypes , and both sides of the case appear as people Has asurprise ending that actually surprises you I would classify this drama aspromoting the pro life belief while using modern production and special effectsRate it four stars.

- WOW, that’s all I could think after watching this one! Its a really good storyline that shows the pain on both sides. Its honest and puts everything out therewithout really taking a side. And the ending is just WOW! I mean after that youget it all, everything between the mother & daughter is explained and itsheartbreaking! Its a really a good movie, and a must-see for everyone!

- This movie should be seen by everyone, especially anyone who advocatespartial birth abortion. I highly recommend viewing the "extras,"commentaries by the director and actors to understand what was going onin their effort to show the truth about killing babies while still in their mother'swombs. If this movie would be allowed to be shown on TV, I am sure there wouldquite an outcry from those who have closed their minds and hearts to the realityof abortion (partial and otherwise!) Lord, have mercy on this country, becausewe certainly do not deserve His mercy.

Jonathan Flora has over fifteen years’experience in the entertainment industry.

He is a producer for worldwide DVD releasesby The Walt Disney Company including DisneyPictures, Pixar, Touchstone, Miramax, andHollywood Pictures, winning numerous Key Artand Promax Awards.

In addition, he directs commercials and musicvideos for Disney with artists such as KennyLoggins, Michael Crawford and more.

Jonathan is also the writer and director of ADistant Thunder, the critically acclaimed filmthat is touching hearts and changing livesacross the nation.

The film was honored at the International Christian Visual Media Associationwith the Gold Crown Award For Best Screenplay, Gold Crown Award For BestDrama and the Silver Crown Award For Best Picture. It has aired on cable, inschools, universities and youth groups; and after screening the film on CapitolHill, the Floras received a letter from President Bush thanking them. SteveMcEveety, one of the producers of The Passion of The Christ, also has praisedthe film.

As a writer, Jonathan’s articles and columns have been appeared in numerouspublications and websites, including Renew America and The ConservativeVoice. Previously, he worked in marketing and public relations with the LosAngeles and Vero Beach Dodgers, as well as serving as Director of Marketingand Corporate Sponsorships with the World Wrestling Federation. During histenure at the WWF, Jonathan produced and directed various televisionsegments and promotional commercials for ESPN

SPECIAL EDITION DVD CONTAINS:

-Original Version (parental discretion advised for pre-teens) & Edited Version

-Spanish Language Version

-"A Conversation with the Filmmakers" featurette

-"A Conversation with the Experts" featurette

-Commentary with Writer/Director Jonathan Flora

-Commentary with cast: Deborah Flora, Peter Renaday and Selah Victor

-"Behind the Thunder" -- The Making of A DISTANT THUNDER

-Trailer

http://www.adistantthunder.com“A Distant Thunder' is a powerful thriller and a gripping legal drama. It's engrossing,terrifying, and convincing. It will move you; it will change you!" - Chris Weinkopf, LosAngeles Daily News

“I’d call ‘A Distant Thunder’ a nightmare of a movie but, nightmares are not normallyrepresentative of reality. This nightmare is happening every minute of every day... Theextra bonus here is that these filmmakers know how to shoot!” - Steve McEveety,Producer The Passion Of The Christ, Braveheart, We Were Soldiers

"A haunting master piece that gets into your heart and stays there. Filled with visuallystunning images and an emotional story, 'A Distant Thunder' is simply one of the mostpowerful and thought-provoking movies in years!" – Jill Stanek, WorldNetDaily

“Chilling and provocative, with a great twist at the end! Packs a powerful emotionalpunch! Creepy and surprising!” – Ted Baehr, Movieguide

“A genuine haunting masterpiece. Intelligently written and acted... A ‘must see’ forevery thinking American! - Mike Westfall, The American Worker

“If Hitchcock would have made a film on partial-birth abortion, this would be it!” - SteveRamsey - Gospel Communications International

“Seeks to do to unrestricted abortion what ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ did to slavery!” – CherylRhoads, National Review Online

“Without a doubt, this film will become one of the most powerful tools to make peoplethink and wrestle with the abortion issue!” – Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director,Priests for Life

"This is a must see! The beauty of this masterful production is that it impacts the viewerboth mentally and emotionally. It makes you think with tears." - Hubert Harriman,President - WGM

“A Distant Thunder’ is not only thought-provoking, it reaches inside your spirit andwraps around your heart!” – Kevin Fobbs, WDTK-Radio, Detroit

“A Distant Thunder’ has immaculate production value… Flora’s direction is very good,with atmosphere and engrossing nuance.” - FilmThreat.com

"Intriguing, provocative and creepy!" - Patrick Lussier – Editor: Scream, Scream 2,Scream 3, Red-Eye – Director: Dracula 2000

"A Distant Thunder is an intense presentation that makes one search their inner-being.A thought provoking piece that is sure to make an impact with its creativity, stellarperformers, and intellectual challenges. The accompanying comments of the film-makers bring it all together!" - Jim Tressel, Head Football Coach, Ohio StateUniversity

“With ‘A Distant Thunder’, Jonathan Flora has created a dramatic, emotional short filmwith a clear message -- partial birth abortion is taking a life, plain and simple. Using aTwilight-Zone twist, his film deals with one life cut short by this brutal and mostcontroversial method of abortion. We should all remember one line from the film:‘Whether we live 90 years or 90 seconds, there's a part of us that goes on forever.’ Thistimely film is a call to action to defend the lives of soon-to-be-born children who areinhumanely denied their right to life.” - Jeb Bush, Former Governor of Florida

"As a strong pro-life member of Congress, I have worked to advocate many initiatives toprotect innocent unborn babies. After viewing "A Distant Thunder," I believe it offers aunique and inspirational perspective that could help change minds and hearts. I wouldencourage everyone -- regardless of their position on abortion -- to watch this film." -Congressman Steve Chabot (R-OH)

"A Distant Thunder’ is a thought-provoking, and, at times, startling look at partial-birthabortion. It goes beyond legal jargon to the harsh realities of the procedure, forcing theviewer to personally confront abortion's long-lasting physical and emotional scars." -Zoe Sandvig, WORLD Magazine

"If 'A Distant Thunder' doesn't open your eyes to some vital issues facing our Nationtoday, I don't know what will. Take a look at it!" - Bobby Bowden, Head Football CoachFlorida State University

"This is an absorbing and relevant drama. It's one of those rare shockers that leaves youwondering where you really stand on an important social issue." - Capt. Dale Dye USMC(Ret) - Actor/Director/Military film consultant - Platoon, Saving Private Ryan,Band Of Brothers

"Deborah Flora's performance is hypnotic and real, demonstrating a frailty andtenderness that is the emotional center of the film." – Jill Stanek, WorldNetDaily

“Benjamin Flora may be the youngest person to ever earn a starring credit in a film!” –

Things are not always as they seem... especially when entering the halls of a desperate mindin this gripping supernatural thriller. Struggling to keep her fragile sanity from unraveling,Prosecutor Ann Brown is offered a murder case that will challenge everything she believes tobe true.

Uncertain at first whether to accept the assignment, a harrowing encounter with DefenseAttorney Tom Condan, convinces her to meet the challenge.

The deeper she investigates, reality and tormenting delusions collide as she encounters anevil force as unnerving as it is foreboding. Terrifying secrets are exposed and you'll discoverthe shocking twist which reveals the chilling and unforeseeable truth.

‘A Distant Thunder’ up closePublished, September 2005 - By Lori Arnold

“A Distant Thunder,” not to be confused with 1988’s “Distant Thunder,” a post-Vietnammelodrama starring John Lithgow, is intense and at times unsettling,

although much of the uncertainty is nicely wrapped up in the suspenseful ending.

The story, which features Flora’s wife Deborah in the lead, involves a murder case broughtabout by a partial-birth abortion gone tragically bad. By design, the graphic procedure ismovingly detailed through a courtroom witness and is not shown on screen. DirectorJonathan Flora, seeking to motivate the viewer, wanted them to develop their own mentalimage of the procedure.

The plot was also carefully crafted to portray the irreversible, long-term repercussions ofabortion. “I want to plant a seed that when you abort a baby, you are aborting a baby thatwould have had a life,” Flora said. “Who knows what could have been?”

Flora is hoping that couples will view the movie with their teen-age children and at least oneCatholic school has indicated it would include the film in its curriculum.

Because of the subject matter and the intensity of the thriller, it is recommended that parentsview the film before showing it to their children, to determine its suitability.

Flora is hoping parents do use it as a tool in an effort to stop a practice he finds morally andethically corrupt.

“I really believe there is a storm coming and it’s going to be based on the decisions we make,”he said. “If we don’t make the right decisions, the storm is going to come and it’s going to bebad.”

Set as a courtroom drama and titled A DistantThunder, the 35-minute film enters thedesperate mind of pro-choice prosecutor AnnBrown (played by Flora's wife, Deborah) whotakes on a partial-birth abortion case, whichproves to challenge everything she believes tobe true.

The deeper she investigates the case the moreshe is tormented by evil delusions that are bothunnerving and foreboding. Terrifying secretsare exposed that lead to a shocking twist inwhich the unforeseeable, yet provocative, truthis revealed. Viewers are likely to be leftspeechless as the credits roll causing them toreflect on the harsh reality of partial-birthabortion, also known by its medical term"dilation and extraction" or "D&X." Asdescribed by National Right to Life, D&X is anabortion procedure performed on women whoare 20 to 32 weeks pregnant in which theunborn baby is grabbed by the legs withforceps and pulled into the birth canal leavingthe head inside the womb.

While the baby is still alive, scissors are forcedinto the back of the baby's skull and spread toenlarge the wound into which a suctioncatheter is then inserted. The brains of thebaby are sucked out causing the head tocollapse. The dead baby is then removed fromthe uterus.

"The only difference between partial-birthabortion and homicide is three inches," Brownsays in the film.

Because education, wrapped in entertainment,is a driving force behind this motion picture,this procedure is described in similar detailthrough the characters' dialogue, although notdepicted”

Review of 'A Distant Thunder'Film takes a provocative look at the moral implications of partial-birth abortion

December 14, 2005RenewAmerica staff

Disney producer Jonathan Flora's new film, A Distant Thunder, is a must-see foranyone interested in the subject of partial-birth abortion.

Reminiscent of supernatural thrillers by M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense,Signs, The Village) and reflecting the best in cinematic courtroom and horrordramas, A Distant Thunder takes viewers through a maze of disturbing hints,twists, symbols, and flashbacks until at the end they are stunned and surprised atwhat they've been watching.

With first-rate acting by literally everyone in the film, along with first-class production values, the film is athought-provoking look at the horrible, but legally-sanctioned, practice of partial-birth abortion.

"Just three inches. . ." is how the film describes the legalities of the shockingabortion incident around which the film revolves.

So powerful is the film's main thesis, once the pieces come together, that it canchange lives, minds, and hearts. It was for this reason, Flora says, that he choseto confine the film to 35 minutes, so it can be widely viewed by lawmakers,political leaders, educators, school classes, and religious groups.

A full-length follow-up version is contemplated by Flora and producer Kip Perry inthe future.

A highlight of the film is the sensational performance by the film's central character Ann Brown, played byDeborah Flora (wife of Jonathan Flora). The gifted actress takes the film far beyond predictable "message"vehicles and gives a stunning portrayal of the young lawyer caught between colliding realities.

It helps that the script by husband Jonathan is insightful, believable, and compelling. Jonathan attributes this, inpart, to a decision he made in college to support an abortion, a decision he regrets and is willing to risk censureamong his Hollywood peers to persuade others against.

The highly-charged movie is an independent project Flora undertookoutside of Disney.

The film features veteran actors Ned Vaughn, Peter Renaday, andCharlene Tilton, as well a list of lesser-known, but capable actors.Viewers will not easily forget the riveting testimony of the nurse whowitnessed the disturbing events at the heart of the movie, played by LauraRichardson.

Exceptional on every level, the film can be ordered at www.adistantthunder.com. Be prepared to bechallenged by the film's puzzling twists and turns, as well as graphic images. Unrated, the film targets teenagersand adults on both sides of the abortion debate.Source - http://www.renewamerica.com/article/051214

Comments from a IMDb Userhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472072/usercomments

Thought-soliciting, powerful, purposeful and skillful ..., 12 October 2005Author: bondgirl-8 from United States

Creating a Hollywood-quality film from a potentially political and sticky subjectis no easy task. I believe politics calls this diplomacy Following, this film has asone of its main strengths the ability to reveal the realities of both sides of anissue without provoking offense or anger. Instead, it very skillfully provokesthought as it unfolds the story and experiences of both sides of a heated issuethat is at the very core of this film. This is what impressed me most. Secondly,I was impressed by the Hollywood quality of the film, the plot, the actors andfilmography.

This is no third-rate film. The writers and producers are obvious professionals.The film description mentions a surprise ending, but you still won't be preparedfor it; it will leave you thinking about the ramifications of this issue long afterthe screen goes black. Thirdly, I was impressed by the fact that I don't believe afilm of this type has ever been created or attempted. It is purpose-driven, andyet, it neither condemns nor judges anyone. The movie inspired me to sportsome related bumper stickers on my car, and to tell others to see it and to makethem think about this most important issue. Really, is just three inches the onlydifference between murder and legality?? We are all to be held accountable forour actions, yet, God can forgive anyone who sincerely asks.

My only wish? I wish it were longer! I would like to know where the film will beavailable and will it available on the big screen soon, or only through stores? Ihope that more thought-provocative yet diplomatic films like this one will becreated in the future to cause humanity to think about its actions and how farit has gone with the right-to-this and the right-to-that to justify them. Somedecisions are just beyond personal rights. The film, by nature, invites one to seeit for themselves, analyze the subject content and draw their own conclusions.So see it for yourself, examine the current legal system and find your voice atthe end of this moral journey. The Thunder may be closer than you think ..

Comments from Amzon.com Users

Exceptional, February 1, 2006 By Mrs Koz (PA)A legal thriller that handles a politically divisive subject well. Better-fundedthan most "independent" "Christian" films, this is a must-see for all thinkingAmericans. If by end of the first act you aren't sure where you stand onpartial-birth abortion, check yourself again during the end credits. You maybe surprised to find you see the issue more clearly than before, and withoutthe spin of politics. Where you find "right and left", there is also and always"right or wrong". Right or Wrong should be what inspires you in life.

Incredibly moving and provocative!, Oct 21,2006 By Lynn Pine (MA)This is a short but powerful film about a legal case involving partial-birthabortion. Very well made and suberbly acted, this movie easily stands up toanything produced by mainstream Hollywood. Though genuinely apolitical,the film forces the viewer to consider their own views about the horror ofpartial-birth abortion in a very meaningful way. It may be helpful to view itmore than once or to see it in a group and discuss it afterwards, assubtleties may be missed the first time around. It's no surprise that manypeople have never even heard, let alone seen this film. But I would bet thatanyone who does, cannot help but be moved.

I would not recommend to most children under the age of 15, as somescenes are intense and may be frightening, however, I would not hesitate toencourage any high school or college-age student to watch, especially as itis likely to spur discussion.

Cast: Terry Brown, Deborah Flora, Peter Renaday, Diane Sellers,Charlene Tilton, Ned Vaughn

“A clip” - Ann Brown the DA prosecutor is in court ready to argue a murdercase. The judge asks if everyone is present. Ann replies, "No, your honor, butI'm afraid the matter is out of our hands." “Why?” Ann: "Sadly, your Honor,the one witness we unfortunately cannot have testify is the victim in thiscase." The defense then begins to argue with Ann that his client simplyperformed a legal abortion. Ann argues there's more to it than that –something went terribly wrong.