Hey film lovers, I come today with a rather unusual request.
Some friends are struggling with getting pregnant and it is suspected that the husband may have some fertility issues. They are considering reaching out to a close male friend to be a donor. The three of them have been good friends since high school and both of the men have been in a serious relationship with the woman, in the past. The guys are basically best friends and have no ill history, but I know from some conversation that they are struggling a little with the fact that guy #1 (who is struggling with fertility) would be raising his best friend's kid, rather than his own, and I think there are also some emotions about guy #2's past history with the woman and their former talk of marriage and a family.
So I was thinking about how to provide some advice or reassurance, and then I remembered a film that I saw when I was younger that had a really interesting story about a similar situation. I can't remember the title, though, which is why I'm here today.
As best as I can recall, the story was about King Arthur, Lancelot, and Guinevere. It may have been a made-for-TV movie. In the story, one man - let's call him Arthur - wants to have a child with the woman, who we'll call Guinevere. But they have trouble and come to suspect that he's infertile, somehow. Anyway, eventually they form this strong bond with Lancelot and, in a very unusual twist, I seem to recall them having a threesome so that they wouldn't know who the true father of Guinevere's baby was.
I haven't been able to find the film but one thing I did discover is that a somewhat related tale, The Fisher King, seems to have an infertile main character, too. I saw this film on TV when I was like 13 years old so it's possible that I'm misremembering it as a Camelot film and it was in fact based on something else entirely.
Does anyone have any idea what this unusual film may have been? I wanted to watch it and perhaps even share it with one of my friends so that they'd have a film with characters that they could sympathize with, a bit.
THANK YOU!!!
Some friends are struggling with getting pregnant and it is suspected that the husband may have some fertility issues. They are considering reaching out to a close male friend to be a donor. The three of them have been good friends since high school and both of the men have been in a serious relationship with the woman, in the past. The guys are basically best friends and have no ill history, but I know from some conversation that they are struggling a little with the fact that guy #1 (who is struggling with fertility) would be raising his best friend's kid, rather than his own, and I think there are also some emotions about guy #2's past history with the woman and their former talk of marriage and a family.
So I was thinking about how to provide some advice or reassurance, and then I remembered a film that I saw when I was younger that had a really interesting story about a similar situation. I can't remember the title, though, which is why I'm here today.
As best as I can recall, the story was about King Arthur, Lancelot, and Guinevere. It may have been a made-for-TV movie. In the story, one man - let's call him Arthur - wants to have a child with the woman, who we'll call Guinevere. But they have trouble and come to suspect that he's infertile, somehow. Anyway, eventually they form this strong bond with Lancelot and, in a very unusual twist, I seem to recall them having a threesome so that they wouldn't know who the true father of Guinevere's baby was.
I haven't been able to find the film but one thing I did discover is that a somewhat related tale, The Fisher King, seems to have an infertile main character, too. I saw this film on TV when I was like 13 years old so it's possible that I'm misremembering it as a Camelot film and it was in fact based on something else entirely.
Does anyone have any idea what this unusual film may have been? I wanted to watch it and perhaps even share it with one of my friends so that they'd have a film with characters that they could sympathize with, a bit.
THANK YOU!!!