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Paternal Instinct: Mark, Wen and Erik
  GAY DADS: PATERNAL INSTINCT
Murray Nossel, USA, 2003
Tuesday 22 June 2004 11.25pm-12.25am; rpt 2.25am-3.25am; Friday 25 June 2am-3am (Thursday night)
 
 

An intimate, challenging, funny and often outrageous story of a gay male couple who have a child with a surrogate mother.

 
 
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Mark and Erik want to be fathers. So they search the internet for a suitable mother of their child. They find Wen, a married mother from New Hampshire, but also a white witch.

Murray Nossel's film follows these prospective gay dads through all sorts of tense moments as they await conception. I won't spoil the ending for you, but, like all good American comedies, it's a happy one.

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