Maybe Baby

2000 "It's a matter of life and sex."
5.6| 1h44m| R| en
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Sam and Lucie Bell are a married couple who seem to have it all: good looks, successful careers, matching motorbikes, and an enthusiastic love life. The only thing they lack is the one thing they want more—a baby.

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PodBill Just what I expected
CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.
SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."
kdesilv This is a simple movie. Well played and not overly dramatic. The only reason that it got a 9 was the "director" scenes with the drug happy, poorly played character. Considering the depth of the concept the film would have been better suited to a more caring character. It attempted to be a moment of comedy in a moving subject matter. Overall, this is a great movie if you are feeling emotional and want to watch a simple story unfold just as you hope, with twists and turns that make you wish for a happy ending. Without needing a spoiler alert; this film pushes the envelope on the Caucasian assumptions that we can get pregnant when ever we are ready vs. the more realistic ethnicities that understand that babies are made when our bodies are ready, not our careers.
Nicholas Dubreuil That pretty sums it up! I was really hoping that this film would be still part the period where you could REALLY have fun in front of a romantic comedy . By that, I mean before the horrifying amount of ghastly Bridget Jones imitations started to invade theaters with silly plots filled with empty-headed and unsympathetic characters, not to mention unbelievable situations. "Maybe Baby" adds insult to injury by purely and simply riping off John Hughes' delightful classic from the late 80s. A time where you could spend your money on a mainstream movie without systematically feeling totally mugged. The nice bunch of co-stars doesn't save this poor excuse for a film either: Joanna Lumley is wasted, Rowan Atkinson's hamming doesn't help a bit, Emma Thompson is just passing through, and so on and so on... On top of that, all is so unbearably neat and tidy like in a clinic, that you could fear to have been impregnated without knowing it while watching this junk. I'll have to see "Rosemary's Baby" again and again to forget that terrible experience. As for the 90 minutes lost, well, so much for my naivety!
debk1223 I ran across this movie today on the WE channel. It caught my attention because it had Hugh Laurie in it and I'm a huge fan of his. So I sat down to watch. I'm glad I did. I went through 7 years of trying to conceive and could relate to just about everything the couple was going through. I laughed out loud when Lucy was riding her moped back from the gyno and she had been lubed up and she slipped off the seat. I thought it was very well written. We got to see just how much this couple loved each other. I do think that Lucy blew the whole diary thing out of proportion. Yes she had a right to be angry but to want to throw her whole marriage down the drain seemed a little ridiculous. I would recommend watching it.
sandamy27 This film was terrific. The charisma between Joely Richardson and Hugh Laurie is terrific and completely believable. The movie is so powerful however that I would only advise seeing it in the company of others if you have already achieved your family size. In other words, it would be a very painful movie to watch with someone who was having trouble with infertility. It's funny, but it's also very true. For me, it touched at the heart of all the issues involved in infertility. And Ms Richardson is a superb actress. I've also seen her at the Haymarket in Lady Windemere's Fan and she is an excellent performer.The semi-cameo (and slightly camp) performances by Dawn French, Joanna Lumley, Emma Thompson and Rowan Atkinson made for fun entertainment as well.