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Maybe Baby

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United Kingdom · 2000
Rated R · 1h 44m
Director Ben Elton
Starring Hugh Laurie, Joely Richardson, Adrian Lester, Matthew Macfadyen
Genre Comedy, Romance

Sam and Lucie Bell are a married couple who seem to have it all: good looks, succesful careers, matching motorikes, and an enthusiastic love life. The only thing they lack is the one thing they want more—a baby.

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70

L.A. Weekly by Chuck Wilson

A film we hereby proclaim the finest fertility comedy ever made, in the faint hope that another will not be attempted.

30

Variety by Derek Elley

A wannabe romantic comedy with miscast leads and a script in desperate need of a good editor.

80

New Times (L.A.) by Gregory Weinkauf

Maybe Baby is Elton's stab at romantic comedy, and it's a strong feature debut, spiffy, quick-witted and more than a little shocking in its unflinching acknowledgement of English people having sex.

12

New York Post by Lou Lumenick

This would be a stultifyingly incestuous affair even if all the jokes about fertilization weren't so tiresomely lame and predictable.

60

TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

Atkinson's painfully unfunny turn as an insensitive gynecologist is eclipsed by Hollander's scathingly funny portrayal of belligerent auteur Proclaimer, whose wears his pretenses with such scabby aplomb that they achieve high style.

60

Salon by Stephanie Zacharek

Sabotages itself by trying too hard. The worst of it is that Maybe Baby feels very much like an Englishman's attempt to make a Nora Ephron movie, all warm and squishy in a decidedly American way.

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