An intimate, darkly comic drama unfolds as a donor father upends a family's carefully constructed world.
Earnest, with dry wit. A date-night pick at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
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Moderate sex and nudity, and no real violence, about what an R should carry.
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Two women, Nic and Jules, brought a son and daughter into the world through artificial insemination. When one of their children reaches age, both kids go behind their mothers' backs to meet with the donor. Life becomes so much more interesting when the father, two mothers and children start to become attached to each other.
Bittersweet. It earns its ending, but not everyone gets what they want.
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