Cloned babies at all costs
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Cloned babies at all costs |
| Original title | Cloned |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1997 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Douglas Barr |
| script | Perri Klass Carmen Culver |
| production | Robin Forman |
| music | Mark Snow |
| camera | Malcolm Cross |
| cut | Raúl Dávalos |
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Cloned - Babies at all costs or Cloned - The Man-Makers is a film directed by Douglas Barr , shot in 1997 in the USA . The film is inspired, among other things, by Ken Follett's book The Third Twin . The film was shown on German television for the first time on August 7, 1998.
action
Set in 2008, the film is about a couple whose eight-year-old son died in a boat accident. To make up for this loss, they want to have a new son cloned because the mother can no longer bear children.
Skye works for a company that does artificial insemination. Years ago this was the only way she was able to conceive her son Chris. However, he died and even with the help of genetic engineering she cannot have a second child.
One day Skye discovers a child who is exactly like her son Chris. Her husband Rick thinks she's crazy, but that doesn't stop her from posting a photo of her son online and doing some research. She comes across a woman who has had a son through artificial insemination who appears to be identical to Chris. At the same time, other people from all parts of the country report who believe they recognize their own son / grandson in the picture. Skye finds out that her fertilized egg has been cloned and implanted in women from several states (USA). At that time a scientist from her own company had done this for study purposes. For this he bred a whole group of identical boys. His long-term goal: how can organs, for example a heart, be cloned in order to implant a “new original heart” into a person if the old one is defective. With the help of the FBI and some of the clones, Skye manages to uncover these machinations. The research involves the top secret and unauthorized “Baby 2000” experiment that was conducted at the fertility clinic. Skye and her husband get into trouble - the company wants to get rid of them. Finally, the scientist tries to bribe her by offering an exact copy of her son so that he can continue his series of tests. Dr. Wesley Kozak is convinced that the Baby 2000 project serves the well-being of all humanity and must not be endangered.
background
In 1978 the first artificially fertilized baby, Louise Joy Brown, was born . Researchers had already begun to experiment with artificial insemination since 1968. Initially, the egg and sperm cells were used by animals and eventually humans. The next step was the targeted cloning of the fertilized egg cells. The film anticipates such a scenario and shows that the science fiction plot was not far removed from the reality of 2010, i.e. in the time window in which the film plot is also located. "If women with an unfulfilled desire to have children donate half of their eggs for cloning experiments, it is now the rule at the University Reproduction Center in Newcastle upon Tyne , then they only have to pay half of the 3000 pounds for an artificial insemination".
Web links
- Cloned - baby at any cost in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Cloned babies at all costs. on zweiausendeins.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cloned Babies at All Costs. In: moviepilot.de. Retrieved February 19, 2016 .
- Jump up ↑ Cloned. cinefacts.de, accessed on February 19, 2016 .
- ↑ Cloned. In: The New York Times.
- ↑ Scientific breakthrough in test tube babies: The girl from the Petri dish. Spiegel Online, July 23, 2008, accessed February 19, 2016 .
- ↑ C. Berndt: Artificial fertilization against egg cells: An immoral offer. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. May 17, 2010. ISSN 0174-4917 , ( sueddeutsche.de ).