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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
17 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 · Cast: Thomasin McKenzie, James Norton, Bill Nighy, Joanna Scanlan, Tanya Moodie, Rish Shah, Charlie Murphy, Ella Bruccoleri, Dougie McMeekin. Director: Ben Taylor. Screenwriter: Jack Thorne. Rated ...
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 ...
17 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).
1 day ago · 2/5. Bill Nighy as Patrick Steptoe, Thomasin McKenzie as Jean Purdy, James Norton as Robert Edwards Credit: Kerry Brown/Netflix. Tim Robey Film Critic. 15 October 2024 9:30pm BST.
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