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JOY
Drama
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who value earnest true-story dramas about medical breakthroughs, social barriers, and determined people challenging entrenched institutions.
- Tone
- uplifting, sentimental, tense
- Payoff
- inspiration, catharsis
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- reproductive autonomy, scientific progress, institutional resistance, perseverance
- Setting
- mid-twentieth-century Britain, hospitals and scientific research facilities
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Netflix
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