Joy Review | A British cuddly drama to cuddle with

Picture the scene: James Norton, looking less like Happy Valley’s villain Tommy Lee Royce and more like an over-enthusiastic biology graduate student, desperately tries to convince a colleague of his revolutionary idea. What if he postulated, with the scientific professionalism of a Nordic Labrador, that we could fertilize an egg outside the uterus? What if we could create an embryo in a test tube to randomly select a piece of laboratory equipment?

The colleague is not convinced. “We will unite them all against us,” Bill Nighy’s character reminds him. The church, the medical establishment, the media. But Doctor Marley & Me has its trump card. “We will have the mothers,” he whispers. The score swells; Nighy’s eyes sparkle; History is being made.

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