‘Bella’ is a rallying point - Grass-roots campaign keeps the low-budget, pro-adoption film going. But will holiday fare end its run?

“HELP ‘Bella.’ ”

That’s the message of a recent e-mail imploring fans of “Bella” to do whatever they can to keep the small-budget, family-oriented movie with an anti-abortion story line in theaters during the height of the fiercely competitive holiday moviegoing season.

The PG-13 rated movie, which features a largely Latino cast with a mix of English and Spanish dialogue, tells the story of a New York waitress, played by Tammy Blanchard, who struggles over whether to seek an abortion because of an unplanned pregnancy. She is befriended by the restaurant’s chef (Eduardo Verástegui), a onetime international soccer star who is haunted by a tragedy in his past. “*

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