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Review

by Jason Di Rosso

I'm a sucker for a rom-com with good one-liners, no matter how unlikely the story. Baby Mama ticks the boxes for me—essentially a buddy movie about a thirtysomething career woman and the surrogate mum she pays to fall pregnant. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler get the central tension right—one's an uptight corporate dag; the other's a ditzy slacker. The rest of the movie, where we encounter the men in their lives (Greg Kinnear, Dax Shepard, Steve Martin) and a creepy fertility guru played by Sigourney Weaver, swings nicely.

Director: Michael McCullers
Cast: Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Greg Kinnear, Dax Shepard, Romany Malco, Sigourney Weaver, Steve Martin, Maura Tierney
Producer: John Goldwyn, Lorne Michaels
Script: Michael McCullers
Cinematographer: Daryn Okada
Editor: Bruce Green
Music: Jeff Richmond
Running time: 99
Australian distributor: Universal
Language: English
Classification: M