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Baby Mama
2008
Successful and single businesswoman Kate Holbrook has long put her career ahead of a personal life. Now 37, she's finally determined to have a kid on her own. But her plan is thrown a curve ball after she discovers she has only a million-to-one chance of getting pregnant. Undaunted, the driven Kate allows South Philly working .. Read more
| Starring | Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Sigourney Weaver, Greg Kinnear |
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| Director | Michael McCullers |
| Genres | Comedy |
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Baby Mama
Successful and single businesswoman Kate Holbrook has long put her career ahead of a personal life. Now 37, she's finally determined to have a kid on her own. But her plan is thrown a curve ball after she discovers she has only a million-to-one chance of getting pregnant. Undaunted, the driven Kate allows South Philly working girl Angie Ostrowiski to become her unlikely surrogate. Simple enough? After learning from the steely head of their surrogacy center that Angie is pregnant, Kate goes into precision nesting mode: reading childcare books, baby-proofing the apartment and researching top pre-schools. But the executive's well-organized strategy is turned upside down when her "baby mama" shows up at her doorstep with no place to live. An unstoppable force meets an immovable object as structured Kate tries to turn vibrant Angie into the perfect expectant mom. In a comic battle of wills, they will struggle their way through preparation for the baby's arrival. And, in the middle of this tug-of-war, they'll discover two kinds of family: the one you're born to and the one you make.
| Starring | Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Sigourney Weaver, Greg Kinnear, Romany Malco, Dax Shepard, Maura Tierney, Holland Taylor, Curt Carlson, Dennis Albanese |
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| Director | Michael McCullers |
| Studio | UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 36 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 35 mins |
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| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | English |
| Released | DVD: 16 Mar 2009 Blu-ray: 16 Mar 2009 Production year: 2008 |
| Format | DVD |
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The clock is ticking for 37-year-old Kate (Tina Fey), a successful executive with an organic food company, but still single, and worse, cursed with an abnormal T shaped uterus. Her chances of... read more »
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19 out of 20 people found this review helpful
TINA FEY FOR VICE PRESIDENT!
(3 1/2 stars)
You got to love Tina Fey. Anyone who can pull off an impersonation of Sarah Palin like she did on Saturday Night Live deserves mounts of Kudos. We already knew she was funny, witty and a very talented actress (for proof see Mean Girls/ 30 Rock).
Fey is indeed the reason to watch Baby Mama, she gets the best bits and lines by far ('I really don't like your uterus.'-'Stop saying that!!'), while Amy Poehler's portrayal of the aura reading but otherwise bad news loan mama is run of the mill at best, grating at the the worst.
Baby Mama does not pretend to be anything other than good humoured, kinda feel good, lightweight entertainment- and as such it is just what it says on the baby food tin. Tina plays the career driven, bit prim, well off woman who gets told she in all likelihood cannot have kids. She signs up with Sigourney Weaver (fabulous by the way) for a rent-a-mom, i.e. Amy Poehler receiving lots of money to carry Tina's child. Needless to say, things go a bit awry and see the two very different women clash and come to heads.
No brownie points for guessing any of the plot twists or outcomes, but hey: watch it in the light hearted spirit it is aimed at and you might even enjoy it.
GOOD, BUT NOT GREAT.
SEE THIS IF YOU LIKED
* MEAN GIRLS
* BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE
* SWEET HOME ALABAMA -
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[Highly rated reviewer]
Predictable but full of belly-laughs
There is not one plot point in this movie that you cannot see coming 20 minutes before it happens. Fortunately, that's the only downside to the most consistently funny film since, say, Knocked Up. The script sparkles with sly digs at new-age, touchy-feely lifestyles and deserves 90 minutes of anyone's time.
An absolute gem.
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- LazarusMunkey from Wednesbury
- Posted 25 Mar 2009 10:02
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Baby booms at box office
- 28 Apr 2008
Baby Mama, the new comedy starring former Saturday Night Live pair Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, has shot to the top of the US box office, according to the latest figures from Nielsen. The film is the story of a successful businesswoman who hires a surrogate mother to have a baby for her - only for the two to become thrust together when the surrogate loses her home. It debuted at the top ahead of another new entry, they-called-it-what? slacker comedy Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay.... Read more
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