“Mother America” itself is a fascinating story about a project to create a perfect specimen of American manhood: Boy America, in response to some Russian efforts. A team of geneticists is tasked to find the perfect mother and perfect genetic match, and the mother will be artificially inseminated. For marketing reasons, a popular actress is presented as one mother candidate … and then she and the head of the scientific project hit it off.

“Mother America” itself is a fascinating story about a project to create a perfect specimen of American manhood: Boy America, in response to some Russian efforts. A team of geneticists is tasked to find the perfect mother and perfect genetic match, and the mother will be artificially inseminated. For marketing reasons, a popular actress is presented as one mother candidate … and then she and the head of the scientific project hit it off.