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Maybe Baby (2001)

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Reviews Counted: 28 Fresh: 13  Rotten:15 Average Rating: 5.1/10

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Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins

Synopsis: Sam (Hugh Laurie) and Lucy (Joey Richardson) seem like the perfect couple - young, sexy, successful, happily married, and very much in love. They decide the time has come to add a baby to the family. Fine. And so they happily commence a carefully planned and energetic schedule of bonking and... Sam (Hugh Laurie) and Lucy (Joey Richardson) seem like the perfect couple - young, sexy, successful, happily married, and very much in love. They decide the time has come to add a baby to the family. Fine. And so they happily commence a carefully planned and energetic schedule of bonking and shagging. Yet nothing happens. They try everything - new age ritual, aroma-therapeutic massages, sex on lay lines under the full moon, Chinese acupuncture and erotic aphrodisiacs. They try In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) and have their respective sexual equipment thoroughly inspected by the finest Eastern and Western specialists. There appears to be absolutely no medical reason why they do not conceive, and yet the blessed event seems ever elusive. At the same time, Sam, who is television executive and writer, comes down with a serious case of writers block, whilst Lucy is getting increasingly frustrated and impatient. One day Sam has an idea, an exciting and thrilling idea - an idea which holds the prospect of his becoming the artist he has always dreamed of becoming. He will write a romantic comedy about a loving and yet infertile couple. When Sam enthusiastically shares his idea with Lucy, she is horrified. Yes, all right, she does want to support Sam's creative impulses, but she can't allow him to parade their private medical predicament in public. She absolutely forbids Sam from pursuing the idea, but he can't help himself. For the first time in years, the ideas are tumbling out of him. So begins a journey of love and betrayal, which will test their marriage and their love, in hilarious and unexpected ways. Sam will be sucked into the glamorous and superficial world of movie making. Lucy finds her loyalties and emotions tested as she gravitates towards the arms of another man. What Sam and Lucy go through is absolutely inconceivable. Will their marriage hold and love conquer all? And if their love survives will there be three of them to share it? ...Maybe Baby. -- © 2000 Siren Entertainment [More]

Genre: Comedies

Starring: Hugh Laurie, Joely Richardson, Rowan Atkinson, Adrian Lester, James Purefoy

Director: Ben Elton
Screenwriter: Ben Elton
Producer: Phil McIntyre
Composer: Colin Towns

DVD Info

Release:

Mar 6, 2003

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Full Frame - 1.33

Audio:

  • Unspecified - English

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Elton's abrasive romantic comedy is a bumpy, exhilarating ride.

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George Perry
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Successful humour comes out naturally and clearly; it doesn't need to be underlined, shouted or propped up by outlandish gags.

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02/08/01
Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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An uneven stab at a romantic comedy, surprisingly unsure in places about whether to go for the gag or the pathos.

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02/08/01
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Emanuel Levy
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...innocuous, yet oddly charming...

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08/01/03
David Nusair
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Christopher Null
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10/12/01
Catharine Tunnacliffe
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If ... you can still imagine that this might be just the kind of movie for you, please stay tuned for the forthcoming article about my resignation.

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09/21/01
Geoff Pevere
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Somehow wastes an impressive cast of otherwise talented British comics and actors.

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09/21/01
Derek Tse
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Just a bit of romance-comedy fluff.

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09/21/01
Rick Groen
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Both poignant and outrageously funny.

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09/04/01
Wade Major
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It features boring cliches and a positively awful leading lady.

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08/31/01
Nikki Tranter
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Maintains a fairly smooth course on the delicate line between tenderly funny comedy and affecting, involving drama.

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08/26/01
Michael Dequina
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A good-natured comedy.

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08/24/01
Maitland McDonagh
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A romantic comedy so slick you can see the reflection of a hundred better movies in it.

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08/24/01
Jan Stuart
Newsday
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This would be a stultifyingly incestuous affair even if all the jokes about fertilization weren't so tiresomely lame and predictable.

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08/24/01
Lou Lumenick
New York Post
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