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Release Date:
July 18, 2020
Original Title:
Beautiful Dreamer
Alternate Titles:
The Surrogate
Genres:
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 94
Beautiful Dreamer is a contemporary dramedy about a group of Bay Area friends in their early 40s navigating one of those life moments together: expecting a surrogate baby, a long and deep friendship in jeopardy, two women finally deciding to marry after years of living together, a novelist with crippling writer's block. Capturing this next uncharted chapter of their extended family, Beautiful Dreamer explores the messy secrets and complicated nature of parenthood and the modern family, all the while testing the boundaries of love and friendship and the bioethics of surrogacy.
Director:
Amy Glazer
Director of Photography:
Jim Orr
Editor:
Rick LeCompte
Producer:
Lynn Webb
Screenplay:
Patricia Cotter
Story:
Patricia Cotter
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