2008 · comedy · romance
Miss Conception
Directed by Eric Styles1h 44m2008
Georgina is an ambitious young London professional who learns she has only one month left in which to conceive a child. After exhausting all possibilities with her baby-phobic boyfriend, Georgina turns to her wildly optimistic friend Clem, with whom she sets out to identify and "land" the perfect father for her child.
Our read: Miss Conception (2008) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- intimate
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