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  • 2008
  • PG-13
  • Universal Pictures
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2008
  • PG-13
  • Universal Pictures
  • 1 h 39 m

Summary Successful and single businesswoman Kate Holbrook has long put her career ahead of a personal life. Now 37, she's finally determined to have a kid on her own. But her plan is thrown a curve ball after she discovers she has only a million-to-one chance of getting pregnant. Undaunted, the driven Kate allows South Philly working girl Angie ...

Directed By: Michael McCullers

Written By: Michael McCullers

  • 2008
  • PG-13
  • Universal Pictures
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2008
  • PG-13
  • Universal Pictures
  • 1 h 39 m

Baby Mama

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 34 Critic Reviews
55
User Score Universal Acclaim Based on 126 User Ratings
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Summary Successful and single businesswoman Kate Holbrook has long put her career ahead of a personal life. Now 37, she's finally determined to have a kid on her own. But her plan is thrown a curve ball after she discovers she has only a million-to-one chance of getting pregnant. Undaunted, the driven Kate allows South Philly working girl Angie ...

Directed By: Michael McCullers

Written By: Michael McCullers

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 34 Critic Reviews
55
32% Positive
11 Reviews
65% Mixed
22 Reviews
3% Negative
1 Review

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 34 Critic Reviews
55
32% Positive
11 Reviews
65% Mixed
22 Reviews
3% Negative
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75
Although the big picture itself gets mushy, the small moments, especially involving Fey, are sharp.
By Lisa Schwarzbaum FULL REVIEW
70
This is a comedy with the old-time blend of wit and sentiment. Years from now, when you stumble across it on TV, you could persuade yourself that, back in the two-thousand-oughts, they made pretty good movies.
By Richard Corliss FULL REVIEW

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Universal Acclaim Based on 126 User Ratings
8.3
77% Positive
97 Ratings
15% Mixed
19 Ratings
8% Negative
10 Ratings

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Universal Acclaim Based on 126 User Ratings
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77% Positive
97 Ratings
15% Mixed
19 Ratings
8% Negative
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60
In a pleasing contrast to Fey's sharpness, Poehler keeps her performance unpredictable and fuzzy. In this just-add-water comedy, a very funny movie star is born.
By Joe Neumaier FULL REVIEW
50
There’s a lot of talent up there on the screen, and some authentic laughs, but too much of it is comedy territory that was claimed long ago.
By Pete Vonder Haar FULL REVIEW
50
A painfully predictable movie.
By Liam Lacey FULL REVIEW
50
The film never comes fully to term, as it were: the visual style is sitcom functional, and even the zippiest jokes fall flat because of poor timing. But, much like the prickly, talented Ms. Fey, it pulls you in with a provocative and, at least in current American movies, unusual mix of female intelligence, awkwardness and chilled-to-the-bone mean.
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW
38
An exhausting 90 minutes of SNL-centric mediocrity that gives one the nagging feeling that Tina Fey's inability to cut the cord is going to quickly start to cool interest in her upcoming projects.
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Production Company Broadway Video, Michaels Goldwyn, Relativity Media
Release Date Apr 25, 2008
Duration 1 h 39 m
Rating PG-13
Genres
Tagline Would you put your eggs...in this basket?
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Awards

MTV Movie + TV Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
People's Choice Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Teen Choice Awards
• 1 Nomination

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