From The Hollywood Reporter · Michael Rechtshaffen · · 1m 20s
Babies asks the question this couple never asked
Anna Kendrick and Seth Rogen play a happy LA couple who suddenly realize they never actually decided about kids.
In brief
Anna Kendrick and Seth Rogen play a happy LA couple who suddenly realize they never actually decided about kids. Some of the biggest life choices get made by drifting, and Babies is about the moment a couple stops drifting and asks out loud. Originally reported by The Hollywood Reporter.
To be or not to be
Lauren Miller Rogen's Babies is built on one thorny question: should this couple have a kid? The whole film sits inside the weighing.
“To be or not to be … parents. That is the thorny question raised in Lauren Miller Rogen's Babies”
Seventeen years, no decision
Annie and Aaron are happy, supportive, and settled in Los Angeles. After 17 years together they start wondering if a bouncing bundle of something is missing.
Friends planted the seed
It may have started with parents in their circle saying the kind thing people always say. The compliment lands like an assignment.
“You guys would be such great parents”
Never officially signed off
Kids were never a fight or a plan, just a box the couple skipped. Suddenly they are addressing a topic they had quietly left open for years.
Kendrick is the engine
Anna Kendrick plays Annie as a comic dynamo, with Seth Rogen alongside her as Aaron. The comedy comes from two people who like each other arguing with themselves.
An astute charmer
The TIFF premiere reads as a sparkling portrait of a marriage under a friendly interrogation, funny without treating the choice as a joke.
“an astute charmer”
The one thing
Some of the biggest life choices get made by drifting, and Babies is about the moment a couple stops drifting and asks out loud.
