A funny-how-things-turn-out relationship comedy. The situation is slow to set up -- the pregnant Brooklyn social worker wants to raise her child with her gay-guy roommate rather than her live-apart boyfriend -- and the shortsighted characters are slow to think through the consequences. The natural complications are not, in the long run, dodged, and yet the movie toils arduously to ensure that everybody in the audience as well as in the cast of characters is kept happy -- or at least everybody liberal. The sweetly appealing leads -- the glowing-complexioned Jennifer Aniston, the glistening-eyed Paul Rudd -- certainly arouse our best wishes. But the general effect is of a blandness where there ought to have been piquancy. With John Pankow, Allison Janney, Alan Alda, Tim Daly, Nigel Hawthorne; written by Wendy Wasserstein; directed by Nicholas Hytner. (1998) — Duncan Shepherd
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