PREVIEW: The Surrogate (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Jasmine Batchelor (film debut), Chris Perfetti (Sound of Metal), Sullivan Jones (Love: As You Like It), Brooke Bloom (Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close), Eboni Booth (film debut), William DeMeritt (The Lennon Report), Purva Bedi (Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn), Leon Addison Brown (Ben Is Back), Hunter Canning (The Exploding Girl), Catherine Curtin (The Artist’s Wife), Jennifer Damiano (B-Side), Erin Gann (The Hurt Locker), Meg Gibson (Vox Lux), Brandon Micheal Hall (Always a Bridesmaid), Layla Khoshnoudi (Long Nights Short Mornings), Jennifer Lim (film debut), Tonya Pinkins (Enchanted), Rachel Siegel (film debut), Wesley Taylor (Lucky Stiff), Tiffany Topol (film debut), Tiffany Villarin (Mass Romantic)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Jeremy Hersh (film debut), director, writer; Jonathan Blitstein (Black Bear), Julie Christeas (The Sleepwalker) and Taylor Hess (Lapsis), producers; Mia Cioffi Henry (film debut), cinematographer; Cecilia Delgado (film debut), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Jess (Batchelor), a young web designer, agrees to be a surrogate and egg-doner for her best friend Josh (Perfetti) and his husband Aaron (Jones). However, ten weeks into the pregnancy, a prenatal test comes back with surprising results, forcing Jess to confront a severe moral dilemma…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

What starts out as a charming, sophisticated slice-of-life drama about a good-natured surrogacy suddenly turns into a morally complex argument over what is right and wrong about certain aspects of parenting, putting The Surrogate in a much more unique category than others of its kind.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 9TH JULY 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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