This raw, proudly vulgar and brutally honest look at new motherhood — and ride-or-die female friendships — milks its subjects for maximum raunchiness.
once said that all movies about pregnancy fall under the category “body horror,” regardless of whether they’re a horror film or not. When I naively asked if that was true, she replied: Dude, have you everpregnant? Check, and mate. Pop culture’s overall view regarding bringing new life into the world as a simple, follow-the-manual miracle has stuck even into the 21st century: You get an adorable baby bump, gotta rush to the hospital, labor can be hard, and then out comes a newborn.
Eden and Dawn have been best friends since grade school, and consider themselves sister from another mother. The former teaches yoga in fourth-floor walk-up in Queens, and lives the carefree life of a single thirtysomething woman. The latter is a dentist, has a three-year-old son and is about to give birth to her second child. Scratch that: Dawn isgiving birth to her second child while she and Eden are on their traditional Thanksgiving-morning movie date.
Adlon knows how to walk that fine line between sweet and vulgar, which comes in handy here since Glazer and Rabinowitz’s script is determined to milk every ounce of humor out of every ounce of bodily fluid that may be spilled, squirted or secreted by expectant moms.
It’s as much a movie about female friendships as it is about motherhood, and that aspect — more than the fact that this is a comedy with female leads — is what makes the “is aiming for feel like more than just a superficial comparison. Like its predecessor, Adlon, Glazer and Buteau’s film is a love letter to the ride-or-die relationships forged by women over decades.
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