Natural Selection (film)

'Natural Selection is a 2010 independent film written and directed by Robbie Pickering and starring Matt O'Leary, John Gries, Rachel Harris, and john Diehl.

Logline
When a dutiful, albeit barren Christian housewife discovers that her devout husband

has suffered a stroke at a sperm bank where he’s been secretly donating his seed for the

past 25 years she leaves her sheltered world and starts off on a journey to find his

eldest biological son – a mullet-headed,foul-mouthed ex-con with whom she develops

an odd, but close relationship.

Synopsis
LINDA WHITE (40’s) leads the sheltered life of a Christian housewife in suburban Texas. Sure, she’s

never been able to have children, but her older husband, BILL, (50’s) doesn’t seem to mind.

Her world is changed irrevocably when Bill suffers a debilitating stroke… while

masturbating at a sperm clinic. Turns out Bill’s quite the stud – he’s been making

‘donations’ for the duration of their marriage – 25 long years – and has thus

sired much of the Southwest. Always dutiful, Linda blames herself – her

barrenness must have driven her poor husband to such sinful extremes. Linda steals

the files on his offspring and finds the address of the eldest – EARL MANSFIELD

(20’s). Somewhere on the edge of guilt and loneliness,Linda sets out

to find Earl and bring him back to her husband.