Okay, I'm a sucker for love stories, and this was a love story, or sorts, but with some decently clever twists.
Tina Fey does a fine job playing a sweet-hearted rich b ...., wanting desperately to have a baby ... with a great job for a green food store chain headed by aging hippie, Steve Martin, who captures the stupid arrogance of a pretend-to-be-humble jerk.
So she hires a "white trash" surrogate (Amy Poehler) from a company run by a smarmy Sigourney Weaver who can't stop having babies and letting her sad clients know it.
Greg Kinnear plays a familiar role of jilted loner waiting for the right woman to come along, a one-time high-powered attorney now running a juice bar in a struggling neighborhood. His eyes say it all.
The surrogate's common-law husband, a trailor-park inventor, big-mouth, demanding, dreamer played superbly by Dax Shepherd.
A movie with some unexpected twists - a good evening's entertainment.
But uneven ... moments of genuine humor, but as if bits and pieces are missing ... as Rob's (Kinnear) 12-year old daughter in the credits, but now on the cutting room floor. But over all, a lot of fun, a good story with the proverbial happy ending for all.
Worth seeing? I think so.
