Movie
Joy
Overview
A young nurse, a visionary scientist and an innovative surgeon face opposition from the church, state, media and medical establishment, in their pursuit of the world’s first ‘test tube baby’, Louise Joy Brown.
Details
- Release date
- 2024-11-15
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Wildgaze Films, Pathe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Bill Nighy as Patrick Steptoe
- James Norton as Robert Edwards
- Thomasin McKenzie as Jean Purdy
- Charlie Murphy as Trisha Johnson
- Rish Shah as Arun
- Cecily Cleeve as Caroline
- Eoin Duffy as Colin
- Mariam Haque as Marie
- Abbiegail Mills as Meg (Older)
- Olivia Sellers as Sara
- Joanna Scanlan as Gladys May
- Tanya Moodie as Muriel
Crew
- Ben Taylor - Director
- Jack Thorne - Writer
- Jack Thorne - Story
- Rachel Mason - Story
- Emma Gordon - Story
- Shaun Topp - Story
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