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Article: Birth dearth.(Baby Mama)(Movie review)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- May 19, 2008
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CAN infertility be funny? This is the first and most pressing question raised by Baby Mama, a cheerful little film premised on the theory that the "inhospitable" uterus of a late-30s professional woman can be mined for the same sort of laughs (and box-office dollars) delivered by last year's spate of unplanned-pregnancy comedies. Fifteen minutes into the film, I was ready to answer in the negative. However terrifying an unintended pregnancy may be, it's still a pregnancy, with a fundamentally happy outcome waiting at the end. Whereas the moments that can inspire laughs, however uncomfortable, when they're experienced by an unwed mother-to-be--going on bad dates, getting ...
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