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– A father is confronted by the sons he had cloned decades earlier. Based on a play by Caryl Churchill..
A father is confronted by the sons he had cloned decades earlier. Based on a play by Caryl Churchill.
10 Sep 2008
English
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James MacDonald
Caryl Churchill
Rhys Ifans, Tom Wilkinson
When Salter's son, Bernard, is told that he's a result of a cloning experiment, he finds out that he's one of an unknown number of human clones. He confronts his father and demands an explanation. Why was he created? Is he an original or a copy? Salter tries to explain the background for the experiment to his shocked son.
1 nomination.
BBC Films