A physician who helps his clients bring new life into the world is accused of an ethical breach that's also criminal in this independent drama. Dr. Freeman (Colm Feore) is a doctor who runs an upscale fertility clinic in Las Vegas, Nevada. Freeman specializes in helping women who have had trouble getting pregnant conceive, usually through artificial insemination techniques or transplanting donated eggs into his patients. Over the course of several weeks, Freeman inseminates nine women from different walks of life, eight become pregnant and give birth to healthy children, but when the new mothers compare notes, they discover their children bear a striking resemblance to one another...
Acting
Colm Feore's simmering arrogance as the god-complex doctor
Writing
The slow-drip reveal that keeps you guessing about his endgame
Production
Vegas-as-backdrop suburbia, all neon and desperation
Director
Mary McGuckian
Andie MacDowell
Charlotte 'Lottie' Louise Du Bose
Lothaire Bluteau
Malcolm Blay
Colm Feore
Dr. Jackson Charles 'Jack' Freeman
Jennifer Tilly
Salome 'Sally' Marsh
David Alpay
Mark Henderson
Michael Eklund
Marlon Bell
Kerry Fox
Kay Stephenson
David Sutcliffe
Jon Du Bose
Nicholas Campbell
Jonathan Banks
Jordi Mollà
Victor
Geraldine Chaplin
Frances Church-Chappel
Oona Chaplin
Laura Chappel
Amanda Plummer
Lesley Banks
Elizabeth McGovern
Tallulah 'Tutu' Williams
Sara Stockbridge
Trixie 'Trix' Bell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during the 2008 fertility industry boom, when 'octomom' headlines made reproductive technology a moral panic playground.
Mary McGuckian's direction deliberately mirrors the women's isolation—each mother thinks she's alone until the visual proof connects them.
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