The Clinic (2010 film)
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| Directed by | James Rabbitts |
| Produced by | Samuel Pinczewski |
| Written by | James Rabbitts |
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Tabrett Bethell Andy Whitfield |
| Music by | Jason Fernandez Kirke Godfrey Angela Little |
| Cinematography | Brad Shield |
| Edited by | Ryan Boucher |
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The Little Film Company
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94 minutes |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
The Clinic is a 2010 Australian thriller film written and directed by James Rabbitts. The film was shot in Deniliquin, NSW, Australia. It is loosely inspired by true stories of infant abduction and follows the stories of six women and their newborn babies.
The Clinic is set in the year 1979 (six years prior to the advent of DNA testing). A young mother-to-be, Beth, is travelling with her fiancé, Cameron. After a near accident on the road, they stop at a motel in the small town of Montgomery. Cameron goes for a midnight stroll and comes back to find his fiancée missing. After holding the last mother until she dies, Beth searches for the wounded mother. The wounded mother tells her of another woman who gave her advice on how to find her child. This woman told her that the only way to find out which baby is hers is to kill five other women and remove their tags from their abdomen. Before she dies, she threatens to drop the remaining tag down a hole unless Beth promises to take care of her baby as well. The women dies and Beth takes the tag from her hand. She then uses the tags to deduce that her baby has the violet clips. She returns to find the babies have been removed from their crib cages as she is knocked out by an unknown assailant.
Beth later awakens naked in an abandoned warehouse, lying in a bathtub filled with ice and water. Meanwhile, Cameron makes an attempt to save Beth by overpowering the officer and travelling to the facility where she is being held. Driving to the facility, he runs over a spike strip and dies in the resulting car crash. Cameron calls the local police and asks the officer on duty to check the motel. Cameron believes the owner to be behaving suspiciously towards the pair. After the police arrive, Cameron attacks the motel owner out of frustration and the authorities arrest him.
As they search around and discover that their babies are alive, however, they are locked in a row of cages. The babies are wearing coloured clips that can only be matched to a coloured tag sewn inside the mother's abdomen. The only way to match the mother to the child is to remove the tag from their abdomens, which will lead to death by blood loss. One of the mothers decides it is better to find her baby through the process of elimination, accomplished by opening up the other women. One by one, the women are picked off by the crazed mother until Beth catches her and fatally injures her.They also reveal that Beth wasn't originally in the group but a substitute for another mother who hadn't survived the C-section.
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