Genre: Documentary
Runtime: 97
minutes
Year:
2022
Starring: Donald Cline, Jacoba Ballard, Debbie Pierce, Jan Shore, Robert Colver,
Dianna Kiesler, Liz White, Angela Ganote, Julie Harmon, Matt White, Shereen Farber,
Mark FarberHeather Woock, Liz Shepher-Stidman
Description: After a woman’s at-home DNA test reveals multiple half-siblings, she discovers a shocking scheme involving donor sperm and a popular fertility doctor.
Review: “Our Father” is a horror story taken from real-life. At the center of
the film is Donald Cline, a doctor who from 1979 runs a fertility clinic in the
American city of Indianapolis.
Cline helped women to get
pregnant, because their husbands are infertile and they have the wish to be
come parents. But what those women didn’t know is that he used his own sperm
and therefore impregnated many women in his clinic.
When one of the donor
children, that was born because of Dr. Cline’s help, wants to know if she has
any siblings, she takes an at-home DNA-test. She finds seven siblings online.
With that already being a bit strange, since a sperm donor is only to be used
for the max of three times. And it does not stop at seven. We here from donor
children and their mothers, but also people who worked for or with Dr. Cline
and sociologists.
The whole clue of the
documentary is pretty clear from the start, but along the way more and more is
revealed about his practices. It’s a very disturbing story and I was really
invested in it. “Our Father” could have zoomed in on the shady practices a bit
more, on how it’s not been outlawed in all of the US yet. Because Dr. Cline was
never prosecuted for his actions. There was a lawsuit, but he didn’t get the
needed punishment.
Rating: 3,5/
5
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