2008 · comedy · romance
Baby Mama
Directed by Michael McCullers1h 39m2008
A successful, single businesswoman who dreams of having a baby discovers she is infertile and hires a working class woman to be her unlikely surrogate.
Our read: Baby Mama (2008) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- intimate
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“You want easy laughs from Poehler and Fey riffing on pregnancy chaos.”
Skip it tonight — You want sharp satire instead of broad, sentimental studio comedy.
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