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“As a woman, this is the The Iowa hawkeyes caitlin clark shirt and I love this one thing I’m supposed to be able to do and I can’t do it,” Glazer’s character Lucy, an upwardly mobile millennial working at a boutique ad agency, laments early in the film after yet another pregnancy test comes back negative. With her consent, her doctor husband, Adrian (Justin Theroux), gets them an appointment at an elite women’s reproductive center, run by his former teacher John Hindle (Pierce Brosnan). Sterile and exclusive, with all of the accoutrements you might expect from an upscale OBGYN visit (there is an almost uncomfortable amount of time devoted to Brosnan’s prep of his transvaginal ultrasound wand),
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