Tina Fey and Amy Poehler in Baby Mama
It use to be that movies were based on books, and then adapted into television series.
Now it seems that the small screen is proving to be the launching pad for big screen movies.
From the producers of SNL comes the romantic comedy Baby Mama to be followed next month by another TV to big screen movie Sex and the City opening on Memorial Day in the states, just in time for the summer movie season.
Baby Mama is truly a New York based film; in fact, its world premier will be held at the opening night for New York City's Tribeca Film Festival on April 23, 2008.
How New Yorkish can this film be?
Well, it stars Tina Fey, former head writer and performer on Saturday Night Live and Amy Poehler who just happens to be a current SNL cast member.
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The Baby Mama was written and directed by Michael McCullers a former sketch writer for SNL and produced the Lorne Michaels SNL creator.
With a procession of actresses either having children or adopting, how right on can this movie be.
Well, very right on.
Tina Frey who plays the career woman who suddenly realizes that her biological clock is running out of time, carefully weights all the options on having a child.
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As successful single businesswoman Kate Holbrook played by Tina Fey has long put her career ahead of her personal life but discovers at age 37 that there is something missing from her life - a baby.
After visiting with fertility doctors she learns that her chance of having a baby are a million to one, until she hits on the idea of using a surrogate mother to carry the baby.
Kate get a South Philly working girl Angie Ostrowiski (Amy Poehler) as the surrogate mother and all seems to be going as planned with Angie pregnant, until Angie arrives on her door with no place to go.
In a typical odd couple fashion, the organized Kate must play mother to both her baby and the surrogate mother.
From insuring that she eats right, remember your eating for you and the baby to baby proofing the apartment to the point that Angie cannot figure how to use anything, the dichotomy of personalities creates some very funny moments.
Will these two opposite personalities make it to term - well, your just have to watch and find out in the Baby Mama, which opens to the general public on Friday, April 25, 2008.
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