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Baby Mama

Baby Mama

Directed by: Michael McCullers
Produced by: Lorne Michaels,John Goldwyn
Written by: Michael McCullers
Starring: Tina Fey,Amy Poehler,Greg Kinnear,Romany Malco,Dax Shepard,Maura Tierney, Sigourney Weaver and Steve Martin
Cinematography: Daryn Okada
Editing by: Bruce Green
Distributed by: Universal Pictures
Release date: April 25, 2008
Running time: 99 min.
Country: United States
Language: English
Budget: $30,000,000

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 Ostrowiski to become her unlikely surrogate. Simple enough … After learning from the steely head of their surrogacy center that Angie is pregnant, Kate goes into precision nesting mode: reading childcare books, baby-proofing the apartment and researching top pre-schools. But the executive’s well-organized strategy is turned upside down when her Baby Mama shows up at her doorstep with no place to live. An unstoppable force meets an immovable object as structured Kate tries to turn vibrant Angie into the perfect expectant mom. In a battle of wills, they will struggle their way through preparation for the baby’s arrival. And in the middle of this tug-of-war, they’ll discover two kinds of family: the one you’re born to and the one you make.

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Synopsis:

Kate Holbrook (Tina Fey), a successful single businesswoman from Philadelphia, has put her career before her personal life. At the age of 37, she has finally decided to have a child on her own, but her plans change when she discovers she has only the slimmest chance of becoming pregnant. Also denied adoption, Kate gets a South Philly working girl, Angie Ostrowski (Amy Poehler), to become a surrogate mom.

When Angie becomes pregnant, Kate begins preparing for motherhood in her own typically driven fashion—until her surrogate shows up at her door with no place to live. Their conflicting personalities put them at odds as Kate learns first-hand about balancing motherhood and career by catering to Angie’s childish needs. As if this weren’t enough Kate also begins dating the local owner of a blended juice cafe.

What Kate doesn’t know is that Angie is feigning the pregnancy and that in fact the in-vitro fertilization did not succeed. Hoping to ultimately run off with her payment, Angie begins to regret the lie but continually puts off confessing until getting an ultrasound wherein she discovers she is actually pregnant. Realizing the baby is her own (and her boyfriend’s), Angie is forced to confess at her own baby shower. This unsurprisingly drives a wedge between the two women.

At the court hearing to definitively determine the maternity of the child, Angie makes an impassioned apology. The baby turns out to be Angie’s. Meeting face to face after the proceedings, Angie’s water breaks and Kate rushes her to the hospital. During Angie’s delivery, Kate passes out. Upon waking she is told that she has become pregnant, the result of her relationship with her new beau.for ends remaining friends, Angie and Kate raise their children together.