Event Description
Joy, starring Bill Nighy, Thomasin McKenzie and James Norton, tells the remarkable true story behind the ground-breaking birth of Louise Joy Brown in 1978, the world’s first ‘test-tube baby’, and the tireless decade-long journey to make it possible. Told from the point of view of Jean Purdy, a young nurse and embryologist, who joined forces with scientist Robert Edwards and surgeon Patrick Steptoe to unlock the puzzle of infertility by pioneering in vitro fertilisation (more commonly known as IVF), the film celebrates the importance of perseverance and the wonders of science as it follows this maverick trio of visionaries who overcame tremendous odds and opposition to realise their dream, and in doing so gave millions of people the chance to dream with them.