No Ordinary Baby (2001)

Directed by

Peter Werner

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 31m

Rating

5.4 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A journalist investigates the birth of the first human clone. She reports on the public outrage and the damage to the doctor's reputation.

tensesombercontemplativeemotionally chargedthought-provokingintimateserioussuspenseful

What happens

No Ordinary Baby, also known as After Amy, is a 2001 American drama television film directed by Peter Werner and written by Richard Kletter, based on the 1998 Wired magazine short story "Carbon Copy: Meet the First Human Clone" by Richard Kadrey. It stars Bridget Fonda and Mary Beth Hurt, with Valerie Mahaffey, Philip Bosco, Adam LeFevre, Arnold Pinnock, Ron Lea, Ted Whittall, Bruce Dinsmore, and Vlasta Vrána co-starring. The film revolves around a reporter (Fonda) covering the birth of the first human clone and the public furor that ensues, along with the reputation troubles faced by the doctor involved (Hurt). No Ordinary Baby premiered on Lifetime on October 8, 2001. Fonda was nominated for the best actress (miniseries or TV film) award at the 2002 Golden Globes for her role. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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