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INCONCEIVABLE

by Mary McGuckian

synopsis

In a climate of rapid technological advance in the fast booming baby business, perhaps a little pause for thought is required on behalf of the patients. Couples with infertility issues, biological clock challenged career women, and the gay community to name some can now achieve the previously inconceivable and are prepared to pay a high price for potential failure. Exploring a week in the life a typical 'cycling' batch of women and their donors preparing to undergo Assisted Reproductive Technology treatments at a progressive private clinic in the USA, the film asks 'what if...' What if...something entirely medically conceivable went amiss? If the architects of ART went the way that any successful artist might - and lost the run of themselves? Are not the baby designers of the future in danger of becoming the architects not only of their own downfall, but potentially tolling the death knell to the survival of our species?

original title: Inconceivable
working title: Art in Las Vegas
country: United Kingdom, Ireland
sales agent: Penny Wolf & Associates
year: 2007
genre: fiction
directed by: Mary McGuckian
screenplay: Mary McGuckian
cast: Lothaire Bluteau, Geraldine Chaplin, Donna D'errico, Colm Feore, Kerry Fox, Andie MacDowell, Elizabeth McGovern, Jordi Molla
cinematography by: Mark Wolf
film editing: Max Gottlieb
music: Kim Bingham, Nicky 'Misschief' Shaw
producer: Mary McGuckian, Martin Katz, Jeff Abberley
production: Pembridge Pictures

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