Expecting

Name: Expecting
Released: December 6, 2013
Duration: 88 min
Rating: 27

2013

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Tribeca Film | Release Date: December 6, 2013 | Not Rated

Summary: After years of struggling to conceive with her husband, Lizzie (Radha Mitchell) has given up hope of having a baby on her own. But when her best friend Andie (Michelle Monaghan) finds herself pregnant after a one-night stand, an unexpected solution arises: Andie offers to have the baby and give it to Lizzie. The couple agrees to the plan,After years of struggling to conceive with her husband, Lizzie (Radha Mitchell) has given up hope of having a baby on her own. But when her best friend Andie (Michelle Monaghan) finds herself pregnant after a one-night stand, an unexpected solution arises: Andie offers to have the baby and give it to Lizzie. The couple agrees to the plan, on one condition: Andie must move in with them for the duration of the pregnancy. But can the women's friendship survive until birth? [Tribeca Film]… Expand

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Runtime: 88 min

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Keith Phipps

Nov 25, 2013

McCormack admirably tries to squeeze a lot of real-world messiness into Expecting, but her film’s essential phoniness refuses to make room for it. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Dan Callahan

Dec 6, 2013

Expecting is a fairly laidback movie that isn't serious and isn't funny and isn't much of anything. Read full review

Joe Leydon

Dec 9, 2013

Even when judged by the standards of broad farce, however, Expecting repeatedly strains credibility and defies logic in ways too glaring to ignore. Read full review

Robert Abele

Jan 1, 2014

The movie's early promise fades, however, as an Apatowian crassness descends upon the comic situations, churlishness gets mistaken for rawness, and sweetness starts to feel manipulative instead of natural. Read full review

The Playlist Kimber Myers

Dec 5, 2013

All around, the performances are fine, but they can’t move past the script from first-time director Jessie McCormack. She’s created a group of people that you’d avoid at a party, and being stuck with them for an hour and a half makes you feel like you’re being punished for doing something really awful. Read full review

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