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The Birth of a New World Order

2010 · 101 min · Science Fiction

A desperate man hires an advanced biotech firm to engineer a child while, in the distant future, a corrupt oligarch runs a dead earth awash in genetic inferiority.

Directed by Jeremy Morris-Burke · Written by Jeremy Morris-Burke

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