Feelings (1974 film)

Feelings
Directed byGerry O'Hara
Written byJames Stevens
Produced byCarol Vogel
Jesse Vogel
StarringKate O'Mara
Paul Freeman
Edward Judd
CinematographyKen Hodges
Edited byTony Lenny
Music byPierre Dutour
Production
companies
Playpont Films
Mara Company
Distributed byMiracle Films
Release date
  • 1974 (1974)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Feelings (also known as Whose Child Am I?, Test-tube Baby andWho's Harriet? ) is a 1974 British drama film directed by Gerry O'Hara and starring Kate O'Mara, Paul Freeman and Edward Judd.[1][2] Its plot concerns a couple who are unable to conceive a baby and attempt artificial insemination.

Cast

Reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A jolly tone of ludicrous implausibility characterises this saga of the joys and hazards of artificial insemination – frequently undercut by an insidiously condescending attitude towards homosexuality and miscegenation in some ineptly appended subplots. Benson ponderously discusses the dangers of fatherless parenthood before half heartedly inseminating a lesbian; and Helen awkwardly proffers an abortion to a white dope-smoking hippy who has accidentally received the sperm of an 'African donor' ("Oh my God, that's wild!" exclaims the girl, who later philosophically decides to have the baby). The burden of James Stevens' script, which seems to have been culled from an awkwardly dispassionate Fifties sex manual, falls on the uneasy principals, Kate O'Mara and Paul Freeman, who between sessions of grim-faced copulation cope as best they can with such lines as, "Every time we make love I feel like some sort of sperm-disposal machine, not a woman"."[3]

References

  1. ^ "Feelings". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 26 August 2024.
  2. ^ BFI.org
  3. ^ "Feelings". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 43 (504): 165. 1 January 1976 – via ProQuest.


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