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Article: Film Review: Baby Mama: Surrogacy jokes fail to deliver
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- Scotland on Sunday
- Article date:
- July 27, 2008
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BABY MAMA (12A) ***
Director: Michael McCullers Running time: 99 minutes
MOVIES know their way around a lot of things: spaceships, war,
young women running for their lives in high heels. The lives of
single people, however, are a different story. Thirty years ago,
when Diane Keaton went Looking For Mr Goodbar, the search ended in
gore. Edward Woodward goes to a Scottish island to investigate a
missing person and the very fact he's a celibate single is the
reason he gets barbecued in The Wicker Man.
More recently, there's been Sex And The City, where arch-
narcissist Carrie Bradshaw has her corny belief in kismet and