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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 ... Written by
Universal Pictures
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Taglines:
Would You Pay Her... To Have Your Baby?
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Release Date:
25 April 2008 (USA)
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Box Office
Budget:
$30,000,000
(estimated)
Opening Weekend:
$17,407,110
(USA)
(25 April 2008)
Gross:
£111,945
(UK)
(25 July 2008)
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Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1
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Trivia
The movie is set in Philadelphia.
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Goofs
When Angie and Kate are driving through Kate's neighborhood, all of the parked cars have front and back license plates. Pennsylvania only requires back license plates.
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Quotes
Carl:
My first thought about Angie carrying someone else's baby? I thought... My wife is gonna have sex with somebody else's husband to do this?...
Angie Ostrowiski:
Carl:
- that's gonna cost extr - out of the question, right. Out of the question.
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Connections
Features
Trap Happy (1946)
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Soundtracks
100 Days, 100 Nights
Written by Gabriel Alexander Ross
Performed by
The Dap-Kings
Courtesy of Daptone Records
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Tina Fey and Amy Poehler prove that buddy comedies need not be the exclusive domain of naughty boys.
"Baby Mama" is no comic masterpiece, but it's at least as good as any number of formulaic comedies churned out by Hollywood and much better than many others. Fey is the uptight career woman who hears her biological clock ticking at 37 and wants to have a baby before it's too late. Poehler is the low-class, free-wheeling blonde who agrees to be her surrogate mother for a hefty fee. The usual odd-couple conflicts ensue, maternal instincts kick in, and in traditional sitcom style, everyone gets what they want in the end.
The movie is mostly an excuse to give Fey and Poehler the chance to riff off of one another, and they do it well. Poehler especially displays the ability to carry a movie, something most SNL veterans aren't able to do. She's funny, but she's also able to embody an actual character rather than simply do skit-T.V. schtick. Just watch her horrified face the first time she tastes water; or the hilarious scene when Fey wrestles her into the shower and begins to scrub the hair dye off of her head in a scene that spoofs "Silkwood."
Also starring Greg Kinnear as a smoothie store owner, and a whacked out Steve Martin as Fey's new age boss.
Grade: A-