Movies that watch the biological clock
When women hit a certain age, their biological clocks start
ticking
– or at least that is how things happen in movies and in
television shows. And if they reach a certain age and their clock
is not ticking, they suddenly start getting pressure from everyone
around them to settle down and start having kids. I never really
thought there was much truth in it – unti
l now.
Movies that watch the biological clock
When women hit a certain age, their biological clocks start ticking – or at least that is how things happen in movies and in television shows. And if they reach a certain age and their clock is not ticking, they suddenly start getting pressure from everyone around them to settle down and start having kids. I never really thought there was much truth in it – until now.
A friend from junior high announced that she is pregnant over the weekend. Her parents are so excited according to the family that they are planning to convert a room in their house into a nursery. And the grandmother and grandfather-to-be plan to buy each other “grandbaby gifts” for Christmas, meaning things like a car seat and other baby items for the house.
The thing is, when the time comes I am sure my parents will be twice as bad. When a family friend mentioned how his son is visiting with his 2-year-old granddaughter next month, my father loudly announced in the bleachers at a football game last Friday that he doesn’t have any grandchildren yet. I just cringed as everyone in the rows around us turned and looked at me.
So for anyone whose clock is ticking or who is starting to feel the pressure, here are few comedies that may put it in perspective.
Miss Conception
Georgina Salt (Heather Graham), a London woman who owns her own construction company, is desperate to have a baby. Her boyfriend, however, is not ready to go that route and they break up. She decides to visit a fertility clinic and the doctor tells her she only has one egg left and she must conceive the next time she ovulates or her chance will be gone.
Her ex-boyfriend is out of the picture on a business trip so she and her best friend Clem (Mia Kirshner) hatch a four-day plan that they hope will get Georgina knocked up. If they can’t find a decent man for a memorable one-night stand, Georgina plans to use a sperm donor as a last resort. Of course, everything that could go wrong does, but Georgina ends up with the right man eventually and nature takes its course.
Nine Months
Even though Samuel Faulkner (Hugh Grant) deals with kids everyday as a child psychologist, a growing sense of panic fills him when he discovers his longtime girlfriend Rebecca (Julianne Moore). Rebecca wants to keep the baby, but Samuel is unsure. Robin Williams plays a goofy, Russian doctor who in one funny scene almost gives Samuel an out. He puts in some dates about Rebecca’s menstrual cycle and comes up with a date of conception – a date when Samuel was out of town at a conference.
Visiting their friends, the Dwyer family, doesn’t make Samuel feel any better about the coming baby as their three little girls cause trouble.
When the pressure gets to be too much, Samuel and Rebecca break up. But of course, after some soul searching, Samuel realizes he really loves Rebecca and wants to be in his baby’s life.
A Smile Like Yours
Greg Kinnear and Lauren Holly star as Danny and Jennifer Robertson, a married couple that seems content with their lives. Danny works as an architect and Jennifer works in a boutique that creates perfumes and other beauty products. When she wants to have a baby, Danny says he is not ready. Jennifer goes off the pill and under the guise of research for the perfect seductive perfume, she shows up at unexpected hours for a tryst with her husband. When she still does not end up pregnant, she goes as far as to take a sample of his sperm to a fertility doctor.
When Danny finds out he has been tricked, he also mistakes a business meeting for his wife having an affair on him. When he leaves the house on a business trip, he is tempted by a coworker. In the end they work things out and end up with a baby.
Raising Arizona
In what remains one of the best Coen brother movies, H.I. McDonnough (Nicolas Cage) is a somewhat reformed petty criminal. He falls for a police woman named Edwina (Holly Hunter), but after they are married they find they can’t have a baby. Edwina is so desperate for a child she comes up with a plan to kidnap a baby from furniture tycoon Nathan Arizona. The man and his wife had quintuplets, so they reason one missing won’t matter much.
Baby Mama
Kate Holbrook (Tina Fey) is a career woman who wants to have a baby. After a she visits a fertility clinic a doctor tell her she won’t be able to conceive. She decides to use a surrogate mother and meets Angie Ostrowiski (Amy Poheler). When Angie gets in a fight with her boyfriend, she needs a place to stay. Kate offers her a place begrudgingly, but the two don’t get along so well. The two eventually reconcile their differences, but things are complicated once again when Angie realizes the baby she is carrying may be her own biological child and not Kate’s.
