a futuristic workaholic who decides to have a baby using a “pod,” an egg-shaped, electronic device in which a fetus develops outside the mother’s body. Running time: 101 minutes. Not yet rated.

In a sci-fi future where everything is ruthlessly, comically optimized by advanced tech, the Womb Center offers digitally monitored, egg-shaped pods that will carry one’s baby to term.

Under intense pressure from her peers, Rachel pursues a pod pregnancy; using in vitro fertilization, the fetus gestates in a large, plastic egg that serves as an artificial womb while they go on ...

It’s easy to agree with the premise of Sophie Barthes’ gleaming, quasi-dystopian “The Pod Generation”: With ... once their zygote is encased in egg-shaped plastic. Rachel begins to chafe ...

The gestation game then happens in an egg-shaped pod, in a tasteful pastel, which you get to have at home for a short spell. Rachel’s company, which monitors her productivity via an amusing AI ...