Would you put your eggs...in this basket?
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 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.
Genre(s): Comedy, Romance
Runtime: 99 minutes
Rating: 6.1/10 (13,635 votes)
Release Date: 23 April 2008
Country: USA
Languages: English
Company: Broadway Video
Sound: SDDS, DTS, Dolby Digital
MPAA: Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, language and a drug reference.
Director(s): Michael McCullers
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Producer(s):
Kay Cannon - co-producer
John Goldwyn - producer
Jill Sobel Messick - executive producer
Lorne Michaels - producer
Louise Rosner - executive producer
Writer(s):
Michael McCullers - (written by)
Cast:
Amy Poehler - Angie Ostrowiski
Tina Fey - Kate Holbrook
Greg Kinnear - Rob Ackerman
Dax Shepard - Carl Loomis
Romany Malco - Oscar
Sigourney Weaver - Chaffee Bicknell
Steve Martin - Barry
Maura Tierney - Caroline
Stephen Mailer - Dan
Holland Taylor - Rose Holbrook
Music: Jeff Richmond
Kay Cannon - co-producer
John Goldwyn - producer
Jill Sobel Messick - executive producer
Lorne Michaels - producer
Louise Rosner - executive producer
Writer(s):
Michael McCullers - (written by)
Cast:
Amy Poehler - Angie Ostrowiski
Tina Fey - Kate Holbrook
Greg Kinnear - Rob Ackerman
Dax Shepard - Carl Loomis
Romany Malco - Oscar
Sigourney Weaver - Chaffee Bicknell
Steve Martin - Barry
Maura Tierney - Caroline
Stephen Mailer - Dan
Holland Taylor - Rose Holbrook
Music: Jeff Richmond
Posted on: April 18, 2008
December 30th, 2008
When I first saw the trailer for Baby Mama, I just thought this moviewas going to be a total disaster, it didn't look funny and like anothertypical chick flick. But my friends wanted to see it, so we saw itopening weekend, and actually I was surprised, I did like a lot betterthan what I was expecting. Baby Mama is something that looks like fromthe Lifetime Network, but it's all good, it has some really funnymoments and was just cute. Amy Poehler and Tina Fey are two very funnywomen from Saturday Night Live, they also did Mean Girls together andmade their characters an absolute joy to watch, so seeing them as theleads in this film was going to be an interesting turn. Tina Feydefinitely has a lot of talent not only as a writer, but as an actress,she made her character believable and as neuritic as she was, she wasstill likable. Amy Poehler made her character a little too SNL attimes, but these girls made the movie enjoyable and a fun flick towatch for the afternoon.
Kate is a single and successful woman who seems to have it all in life,but one thing she wants so bad is a baby. But one problem, her uterusisn't liked by her doctor, in other words, she has a one in a millionchance of getting pregnant. After adoption woes and sperm donorfailures, she decides to get a sergeant mother who will get pregnantand give her a child. She meets white trash couple, Angie and Carl.Angie moves into Kate's apartment after her break up with Carl, so this"odd couple" has to teach each other some new moves in life.
Baby Mama is actually worth the watch, I was very impressed with howmuch I liked it, like I said, from the trailer, it doesn't seem like agood movie, but when you watch it, you get the laughs and the smilesthat the movie promises. It is a chick flick, warning to people whohave a strong hatred for them, but I'm not a fan of chick flicks, andyou know what? I thought that this was just a fun movie that if you letgo and even enjoy the predictability, you'll find yourself loving BabyMama.
January 4th, 2009
Tina, how could you?
Amy, how could you help her?
I got this film in a bargain bin and was delighted as two of myfavourites were starring in it and I had made a point of not readingthe reviews.
I couldn't believe the ending of the film was signalled from so fardown the line that I could fill in the script with the mute button on.I soooo wanted to turn it off and go on to better things about 10minutes into it and stopped myself by thinking: It's Tina! It's Amy! Ithas to get better, it's just a wonky beginning. No. Such. Luck.
To encapsulate: it is something like an appalling soap opera withquick, predictable resolutions to each and every scene.
Steve Martin participated in this schlock as a new age successful foodempire guru and Greg Kinnear brought his ever-present, one note, sadand soulful demeanour to the role. For once, I'd like to see himexplode and have a meltdown, maybe take an AK47 and go on a rampage. Itwould have saved this drivel posing as a film.
Hang your heads all who participated in this sad and sorry littleeffort.
4 out of 10.
I'm being generous. Something about Sarah Palin and an impersonator parexcellence.
May 31st, 2010
This movie was absolute brilliance. I loved it. Seven thumbs up. 1-10? 11. Yes, 11. It is in my top 5 favorite movies ever. It is a MUST watch.
PS… i practice the ancient art of karaoke:)