Posted: 11:23 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011
By Nelson Hicks
ATLANTA —
Hundreds of people made their way to the Woodruff Arts Center Tuesday night to see a few stars, catch a movie and help support a local charity.
Jane Fonda brought the movie premiere of "Peace, Love & Misunderstanding" to her former home to raise money for the Georgia Campaign For Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention. Fonda founded G-CAPP in 1995.
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"We believe that hope is the best contraceptive," Fonda said. "When kids see a future for themselves, they have hope, and they know that having a child while they're still a child will compromise their lives."
IMDB notes the movie features an uptight New York City lawyer who takes her two teenagers to her hippie mother's farmhouse upstate for a family vacation. Fonda plays Grace, the hippie grandmother in the film.
"I think (peace, love and misunderstanding) applies to everyone's life," Fonda said on the red carpet. "We have a little peace, hopefully a lot of love, which certainly I do, and there's always a little bit of misunderstanding. The tagline of the movie is 'Sometimes understanding skips a generation.' Well, that's certainly true for me, but everything turns out good in the end."
Fonda was joined by actors Rosanna Arquette, Nat Wolff, Marissa O'Donnell and producer Claude Dal Farra at the event. The movie also stars Catherine Keener, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Elizabeth Olsen, she's Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's sister, and Chace Crawford.
Fonda lived in Atlanta for 19 years before moving out west in 2010.
“This is a hard blog to write,” she posted on her website last year discussing the move. “I have been in Atlanta for 19 years. It has been my home and I have been very happy here. I came here with Ted Turner and when we separated, I stayed. It’s been 10 years since then. I built myself a loft that I truly thought would be my home till I died. I love it so. My daughter, my soon-to-be son-in-law and my two grandchildren live here. My two non-profits are here: The Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention and The Jane Fonda Center at the Emory School of Medicine where the focus is on adolescent reproductive health and sexuality. So you see, my decision to move to Los Angeles has not been easy.”
Fonda held a similar fundraiser when her movie "Georgia Rule" opened in 2007.