Rating: PG13
Genre:
Comedy
Theatrical Release: 04/25/2008(USA)
Release Date: 04/12/2009
Flags: Adult Humor, Profanity, Drug Content
Distributor/Studio: Universal Studios
Former
Saturday Night Live "Weekend Update" co-anchors
Tina Fey and
Amy Poehler co-star in this baby-fever
comedy about a single, career-oriented woman who previously put parenthood on hold, and is forced to hire a surrogate mother when she discovers there is only a one-in-a-million chance that she will be able to get pregnant.
Kate Holbrook (
Fey) is a 37-year-old business executive who has always put her professional life before her personal life, but these days her biological clock is ticking louder than ever before. As with everything else she has accomplished in life,
Kate is determined to have a child on her own terms. Unfortunately for
Kate, the chance of her ever becoming pregnant is slim to none. Undaunted, a willful
Kate drafts South Philly working-class girl
Angie Ostrowiski (
Poehler) -- a woman who may just be her polar opposite -- to be a surrogate mother. Subsequently informed by the head of the surrogacy center (
Sigourney Weaver) that her surrogate is indeed pregnant, the excited mother-to-be soon purchases every child-rearing book she can find and excitedly begins the nesting process. But life hasn't quit throwing
Kate curveballs just yet, because when a pregnant
Angie shows up on her doorstep with no place to live, the woman who once thrived on order finds her life descending into chaos. Now, as
Kate attempts to transform
Angie into the ideal expectant mother, this odd couple will discover that families aren't always biological, but occasionally formed through friendship as well. Writer
Michael McCullers, who authored the screenplays for
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and
Undercover Brother in addition to working on
Saturday Night Live, makes his feature directorial debut with a self-penned screenplay.
~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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