Gayby Baby

Synopsis: GAYBY BABY follows the lives of four kids - Gus, Ebony, Matt and Graham - whose parents all happen to be gay. As they each wrestle with personal change, the outside world wrestles with the issue of marriage equality, and whether or not kids of same-sex families are at risk.
Director(s): Maya Newell
Actors: Matt Young
Production: SUPERGRAVITY Pictures
  1 win & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.7
Rotten Tomatoes:
86%
PG
Year:
2015
85 min
Website
108 Views


(Birds tweet)

- [Voiceover] We've gotta

aspire to give our children

what I believe to be the

very best circumstances.

That's to have a mother and a father.

(Calm piano music)

- [Voiceover] Marriage is

between a man and a woman

because of children.

Because motherhood and

fatherhood are important.

- [Voiceover] What a load of rubbish.

- [Voiceover] Legalising same

sex marriage will institute

the motherless family,

or the fatherless family.

It will inflict that

depravation on those children.

- [Voiceover] Same-sex couples

can't simultaneously provide

both mothering and fathering skills.

(Voices overlapping)

- [Voiceover] I and the Labour

Party have a clear policy.

- [Voiceover] Who takes

the boy to football?

Who tells him what's right from

wrong?

- [Voiceover] If this bill is

passed it'll seriously deter

mothers putting their

babies up for adoption.

- [Voiceover] Paedophiles

will one day marry children.

- [Voiceover] It's just

natural order to do this

with a biological,

married mother and father.

- [Gus] I didn't have a dad as you

know,

I had this thing called a donor.

A donor when they, a man delivers

sperm

into the hospital, into a little

container

and then they freeze it so it's all

fresh

and then they give it to the womans.

Two women that can have,

that want to have a baby

and then they have a baby.

And we did that

and now I'm here.

- [Jamie] Should we just put

all the stockings together Jen?

Okay, you go-

One Santa and reindeer, coming up.

Look at that, that is definitely

reindeer's got in that.

I know reindeers.

I know how they eat.

Like savages.

And you gotta write the note.

Didn't you have a note

when you were a kid.

That's what's wrong with you,

didn't have a note,

Watch out, to say thanks

for all the stuff.

You don't have to even, just spit it

out.

(Laughs)

(Sighs)

(Clock ticks)

- It's Christmas everybody.

- [Rory] Look, it's Santa's

footprint!

- [Jamie] Oh it is too, must

have come down the side.

- His reindeer's hoof print!

- Check it out!

I dunno if Santa's got horseshoes

has he, reindeer shoes?

- [Gus] It must be the reindeer.

- No Mum, there was Santa's reindeers

and this is Santa's foot.

- You see Rory, they

must have gone from here,

did a big jump, landed here

and then they must have started to

fly.

That's why there isn't

any more footprints,

am I right Amanda?

(Sportscasters on TV)

I love wrestling more than every

teensy little grain of sand

in the world.

Then, fly in a spaceship across space

and scatter them on every single

star,

and that's how much I like wrestling.

Doo doo doo doo doo

I was wondering...

You know when the WWE comes to

Australia?

- Yeah.

- Can I go?

- Do you want this paper?

- Do not try and change the subject.

- Can you go to wrestling?

- Yeah, when it comes to Australia

please.

- I don't know, we'll have

to discuss it with Jamie.

- Come on.

- I'll discuss it.

- How do you feel about it?

- Oh I worry that it's just the

worst.

- I've heard this before.

- Boofhead, male thing that exists.

- Or the best boofhead

male thing that exists.

- Oh dear, the wrestling the

wrestling.

What are we gonna do

about the wrestling, hm?

(Baby talk)

- [Recording] Let's do

a breathing exercise.

Make sure you keep good posture

throughout

and breathe deeply into

your abdominal area.

Your shoulders and your

chest shouldn't move.

If you become a little dizzy,

just take a short break.

This one's four sips

in and four hisses out.

(Rhythmic music)

In, and out.

(Hisses)

- [Ebony] When you're singing,

you just forget everything else.

Especially when you're stressed,

you just start singing and you forget

that you're angry about something

and you just listen to the

song and pretend you're there.

Too late for second guessing

Too late to go back to sleep

I really want to get into Newtown.

It's a really good school.

If I went there it'd probably be the

place

where I'd most be accepted.

- Having two mums you're

probably gonna have

a better time of it at

Newtown then you would

in a school out west where

they may not be so tolerant

of the fact that you have two mums.

In Newtown no one's even going to

blink

at the fact that you have two mums,

so it's probably the

school that's best for you.

- What high school am I going to

if I don't get into Newtown?

- No you're getting into Newtown.

- How do you know?

- (Laughs) Because

you'll get into Newtown,

I have faith in you, you're

gonna get into Newtown.

- Don't you need a back up plan?

- Even if it takes us

moving back to Newtown,

you'll get in Newtown as local.

(Rhythmic music)

- [Recording] Now this is the last

one.

Make it really steady.

Keep going.

(People chatter)

- Mum?

Um, about AFL.

I've been keeping up

quite a lot on my homework

and they're enrolling pretty soon.

And I would like to join

and I've only got one homework

strike,

that was 'cause it was over the

weekend.

But I've learned my lesson

so now I'm doing every single

bit of homework tonight.

All be good.

- So when will you be doing AFL?

When are the times for AFL?

- Sunday.

- No way mate.

That's Saturday sports, Sunday

sports.

We have a right to have a weekend

too.

So this is not just about you,

and as a mature young man,

in year seven,

your consideration shouldn't

just be for what you want.

That's my time to visit God,

that's my time to talk to God.

So for me, that is very important to

me.

So if your game ends up

being on a Sunday morning

that means that I'm missing church.

- [Matt] When I went to

Bible study last Sunday,

we just read out a passage

and tried to think of the

meaning of that passage.

There's a nonbelievers tunnel

which is very wide and easy to go

through.

But then there's a believer's tunnel

which is very thin and

not so easy to go through.

And the reason why the

believer's tunnel is so thin

is because one, not many people

choose it

and two, it's hard to stay on that

track

once you've chosen it

because not all good

things in life come easy.

At our age we have the decision now

whether or not we believe

or don't believe in God.

(Church bell rings)

(TV news plays)

- Your call man.

If you can read what the

school lunch is to us,

then you can have it.

- The Wednesday special is...

(Struggles with word)

- ls what?

- Is rav...

- Rav, and what's the next letter.

- Ravin...

- No, rav-ee.

O...

Li...

- (Gasp) Say it again?

- Ravioli?

Return to the canteen by Sunday.

- Okay is it really Sunday?

- Saturday.

- Is that really Saturday?

- Oh, Thursday.

- Is that really Thursday,

'cause I think you.

- I mean Tuesday.

- You guessed four other days.

- Turn it over and spell Tuesday.

- Yeah turn it over and

spell Tuesday for me.

The days of the week

thing has let you down.

- Yeah the days of the week

thing is pretty upsetting,

I'd say.

- [Graham] If you don't read,

you'll end up on the street.

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