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Giving Hired Birth (2005)

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Original title
Đẻ Mướn
Directed by
Lê Bảo Trung
Genre
comedy, romance
Country
Vietnam
Runtime
1h 30m
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A married couple faces pressure from the husband's mother for a grandchild. After discovering the wife cannot conceive, the wife hires a young employee to bear a child with the husband in exchange for money. The husband struggles with the arrangement due to his love for his wife, and complications arise when the surrogate mother decides to keep the baby.

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