A young nurse, a visionary scientist and an innovative surgeon face opposition from the church, state, media and medical establishment, in their pursuit of the world’s first ‘test tube baby’, Louise Joy Brown.
Acting
Thomasin McKenzie's simmering brilliance as the erased pioneer.
Direction
Taylor makes petri dishes feel like battlefields.
Writing
Dialogue that weaponizes 1970s politeness.
Director
Ben Taylor
Bill Nighy
Patrick Steptoe
James Norton
Robert Edwards
Thomasin McKenzie
Jean Purdy
Charlie Murphy
Trisha Johnson
Rish Shah
Arun
Cecily Cleeve
Caroline
Eoin Duffy
Colin
Mariam Haque
Marie
Abbiegail Mills
Meg (Older)
Joanna Scanlan
Gladys May
Tanya Moodie
Muriel
Ella Bruccoleri
Lesley Brown
Douggie McMeekin
John Brown
Miles Jupp
George
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