# Need help identifying a film

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**Created:** [April 9, 2011, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-identifying-a-film/577739 "2011-04-09T00:59:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![mittu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@mittu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mittu)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2011, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-identifying-a-film/577739/1 "2011-04-09T00:59:20Z")

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I was listening to a podcast and the presenter described a film but either didn’t name it or I missed it. He said it was about a centre that produced clones for the purposes of organ harvesting when the ‘original’ required it. Anybody know the name of the film?

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**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2011, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-identifying-a-film/577739/2 "2011-04-09T01:02:19Z")

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[Never Let Me Go](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1334260/) based on the book by Kazuo Ishiguro.

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**Author:** ![sco3tt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@sco3tt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sco3tt)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2011, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-identifying-a-film/577739/3 "2011-04-09T01:21:40Z")

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Most likely either [Parts: The Clonus Horror](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078062/) and/or [The Island](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399201/).

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2011, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-identifying-a-film/577739/4 "2011-04-09T02:20:14Z")

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I like _The Island_. It’s a decent SF chase flick that’s been unfairly dismissed. Though it does steal a lot of ideas from _Logan’s Run_.

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**Author:** ![Sakuma\_Drops](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sakuma\_Drops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sakuma_Drops)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2011, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-identifying-a-film/577739/5 "2011-04-09T02:32:49Z")

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> [@sco3tt](#):
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> Most likely either [Parts: The Clonus Horror](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078062/) and/or [The Island](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399201/).

What’s hilarious about _Parts: The Clonus Horror_ is that most people wouldn’t even be aware of its existence save two things:

1. it was on _Mystery Science Theater 3000_
2. the people who made _Parts_ sued the people who made _The Island_ because of how much the latter ripped off the former

_Never Let Me Go_ is another clone movie, but unlike in the other two, the clones aren’t confined to a camp where they’re kept isolated from and ignorant of the outside world.