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1 day ago · Joy review: Netflix's British drama is a superbly-performed and important watch. It's released next month. It took until 2015 for Jean Purdy's name to be added to the plaque at the Oldham hospital ...
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- Ian Sandwell
1 day ago · The Netflix drama Joy – based on the hard-fought true story behind the conception of IVF – hits all the right notes in this little-known retelling of revolutionary science. It’s no easy task ...
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- Asyia Iftikhar
18 hours ago · The events leading up to July 1978 and the birth in Manchester of the world’s first “test tube baby” — the tabloid term for the process known more soberly as I.V.F. (in vitro fertilization ...
1 day ago · The story of the birth of IVF (penned by Jack Thorne from a story collaboration with his wife, Rachel Mason alongside Emma Gordon and Shaun Topp) follows in the Billy Elliott, Made In Dagenham, Pride tradition of heartwarming British drama. It’s a template the film doesn’t do much to deviate from, but then it’s a template for a reason – this is peak rainy Sunday viewing, best done with ...
18 hours ago · Screenwriters Jack Thorne, Emma Gordon and Rachel Mason, and director Ben Taylor, dramatise the heartache and strain and triumph that led to the first ever birth of what the press with a mixture of hostility and awe called “a test-tube baby” – that is, a baby conceived through in vitro fertilisation – on 25 July 1978: a little girl called Louise Brown (middle name Joy).
22 hours ago · Ben Taylor directs Jack Thorne’s screenplay chronicling the dogged progress in the 1960s and ‘70s of the team behind an important breakthrough in medical science.
1 day ago · Bill Nighy is, as usual, charming and acerbic, giving some edge to the light tone. Cons. Joy is quick to gloss over the film's darker moments in favor of a lighter tone. Thomas McKenzie and James ...
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