2010 · comedy · romance
The Back-Up Plan
Directed by Alan Poul1h 46m2010
When Zoe tires of looking for Mr. Right, she decides to have a baby on her own. But on the day she's artificially inseminated, she meets Stan, who seems to be just who she's been searching for all her life. Now, Zoe has to figure out how to make her two life's dreams fit with each other.
Our read: The Back-Up Plan (2010) reads as a cosy, kinetic, inventive comedy · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / romance, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
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