Looking for Eternity (1989)

Original title

Portion d'éternité

Directed by

Robert Favreau

Genre

drama, science fiction

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 36m

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A doctor runs a fertility clinic and gets into a legal fight with a grieving grandfather over what to do with frozen embryos from a dead couple. The doctor wants to use them to test a theory about cloning and immortality.

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What happens

Looking for Eternity (French: Portion d'éternité) is a Canadian science fiction drama film, directed by Robert Favreau and released in 1989. The film stars Paul Savoie as Antoine, a doctor running a fertility clinic; after Pierre (Marc Messier) and Marie (Danielle Proulx), an infertile couple who were clients of his clinic, are killed in a car accident, he is drawn into a legal battle with Pierre's father (Gilles Pelletier), who wants their embryos destroyed, while Antoine himself wants to use them to test his theory that a form of immortality can be achieved through cloning. The cast also includes Patricia Nolin as Hélène, a government agent investigating Antoine's clinic, as well as Maryse Gagné, Raymond Cloutier, Johanne-Marie Tremblay, Daniel Gadouas, Hélène Mercier and Mark Hellman in supporting roles. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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