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Joy review: These test tube baby pioneers deliver a real bundle of joy, writes BRIAN VINER
Pub quiz enthusiasts have always known the name of the first 'test-tube' baby. The question pops up a lot, and the answer is Louise Brown.
It does this well, striking an easy balance between the solemn medical jargon required to give the story authenticity (in Joy, as far as I'm aware, 'pre-ovulating follicles' make their debut in mainstream cinema) and that jaunty period charm which so often drives British films set in the 1960s. As Steptoe, Nighy delivers his standard set of soft-voice and fluttery-hand mannerisms, but he's convincing as the doctor compelled by the forces of stuffy disapproval to pursue his dream in an outbuilding behind an Oldham hospital. Skincare (18, 96 mins) is a thriller not without blemish, but Elizabeth Banks gives a suitably glowing performance as Los Angeles beautician Hope Goldman, who believes a rival is trying to drive her out of business with a campaign of hate mail and commercial sabotage.
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