Directed by Michael Campus
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Legend Films)
Oliver Reed and Geraldine Chaplin are a married couple in the not-too-distant future where overpopulation leads to a government edict that there will be no more child births for 22 years. Instead, couples line up for talking plastic mannequins to satisfy their cravings for children. It's a poor substitute. Chaplin decides to get pregnant and Reed hides her in the atomic bomb shelter until the baby is born. Their neighbors find out and blackmail them into sharing the baby. They go along with it for awhile, but the neighbors decide they want the baby all to themselves. Reed and Chaplin take a lifeboat down the sewers, across the ocean and settle on a radioactive island. It's never credible, quite dated and the mannequin kids are ridiculous. A disappointment from Max Ehrlich, author of the much better Reincarnation of Peter Proud a couple of years after this film.
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