The Switch Page #3

Synopsis: Kassie (Jennifer Aniston) and Wally (Jason Bateman) are best friends. Being unlucky in love, Kassie has decided to have a child using artificial insemination. Wally doesn't like this idea, but he isn't capable of admitting to himself, let alone to Kassie, that he's in love with her. At Kassie's artificial insemination party, Wally gets very drunk and spies the sperm donor's sample in the bathroom. Wally was way too drunk to know what he did that night, and Kassie has moved away because she doesn't feel that New York City is a place to raise a child. Now 7 years later, Kassie has moved back with her son Sebastian. While she is looking to get Roland (the sperm donor) more involved in their lives, Wally can't help but notice the many striking similarities that he and Sebastian share.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Josh Gordon, Will Speck
Production: Miramax
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.1
Metacritic:
52
Rotten Tomatoes:
51%
PG-13
Year:
2010
101 min
$27,400,000
Website
2,821 Views


was still single, I can believe it.

You gonna pick on the market,

the first date?

Yes, and the wedding in June?

And living in the suburb.

New Jersey?

Nice residential community...

But I have to work a lot

for that second house.

Although that can't be an excuse for

you to hide...

The ever growing monotony

New Jersey's drudgery.

What that leads to resistance in you.

But you would perpetuate that?

But you could do something on a

self-destructive way. Later.

That's me.

And I'm gonna blame myself for that...

And that guilt would must cope.

If I am out of town, I'm stuck in a hotel

to masturbate in the internet...

You probably sit down at home

with some drinking problem...

And a pathetic 50-year old single with

expensive jeans in a nightclub on a toll road.

I would not speak with you

because you're too young.

Or it could turn out great.

I am incredible.

What was I thinking?

Just suck up and smile.

Talk with you bake anything.

You have a missed call.

Hey Wally, it's Kassie.

We move back to New York.

I got an offer from ABC

and found a great school, for Sebastian.

He exercises his accent al

Call me, this is very exciting.

Bye.

I thought after dinner to that wine bar

we hated to go again...

Those old waiter who always decorated.

He's alive, I think.

How old is he ?

Sebastian chooses only the

heavy alcohol.

Sebastian? Not just you and me.

Will you wanna see him?

And you actually have a give to something like a little gift.

Nothing big.

Small gift nothing big right.

I'll buy a little basketball.

He is not so athletic.

What then?

He collects picture frames.

Frames?

Yeah, it's weird. Without photos.

That's very unusual.

Debbie says hello.

Does she?

she helps me unpack.

She's got a dream catcher made.

I do not know yet.

So, I will see you tonight.

Thanks you for rejecting my friends.

Did you hear that?

Part - to eliminate her from my life.

Exactly. I can not tell her.

See you later.

I am looking for a young women who...

Oh right there.

Pardon me please, ma'am.

You look great.

Look at you.

Who took over dress in you?

Nobody. What are you talking about?

I like it.

Where is Sebastian?

If he behaves strangely...

It is because he has to adapt.

He looks at the fish.

I think's he just fine.

Matthew, come on it's time to go.

I think I have Cyclonic Disorder.

I stared at the shark and felt nothing.

Honey, I don't what that is,

but I'm sure you don"t have it.

This is Uncle Wally. Say hello.

Hello.

Hi, Sebastian.

Cyclonic Disorder.

Emotional fluctuations,

hyperactivity...

No interest, no fun,

no motivation.

Was I unclear?

Sebastian look, Wally's got a gift.

Let's see what it is.

Yes I do.

Take a look at this.

That is so sweet, Wally.

It is a one of silver edition.

Where is the picture?

What picture?

That comes with it if you'd buying.

The most important part.

What?

This framework is used.

Say thank you.

Thank you.

You got it, look at this.

this is the big surprise.

I called in advance and have it ordered.

Ready for the best duck in the world?

I can not eat duck.

Why?

Wally, you know what they do with duck

Waterfowl on the farms?

No, you think of veal.

No, I read about the ducks.

They fatten the ducks thick.

With 's plastic tube in their throat.

I ordered it.

The ducks have a liver disease

called lipomatosis and could not walk.

Nature is in a crisis

and that has an offender.

What's going on here?

He is stubborn.

Hey guess what...

It cost me $ 84

and it's gonna be the best eat you ever had.

I'm not going to eat.

And I hate you, if you does.

We do not say 'hate', baby.

We can eat rice with soy sauce.

Great, rice with soy sauce.

A great compromise.

Uncle Wally likes to eat rice.

He likes you.

Kidding, right?

No, surely.

Can a few hours

of him this weekend?

I don't think...

I have to show a parent orientation thing...

In school, and need you really help me out.

Then spend your time together.

Know each other.

Excuse me.

For me Soda on the rocks.

And...

Sorry about that.

Okay. I eat it that way.

I eat with my cereal.

Better than bananas.

That sounds delicious.

The form is already correct.

Honey, stay close.

Is he great?

He thinks I'm lesbian.

What?

Because the only mother he knows

guys or fathers with seeds...

Or lesbians.

Mama.

Can I go in?

No, we have to get home.

He is so smart and consider everythings.

And he sees never boring.

He went inside.

I know he does that.

What is a seed guy?

Part of his birth story.

This should be good.

A story I'm telling you.

How he got here.

That mother has no husband...

But he had wanted

they could wait no longer.

And then she went to the doctor

and the doctor said if you are looking for long enough...

Think you got a very special person who,

if you really ask nicely...

Give you seeds.

So that I can plant you in my tummy.

Got it.

But I read all the books

who have this...

And until it actually happens

nothing can prepare you.

The day when your kid comes home crying from

school because sains experiment.

Who was that?

A text from Roland.

Who is Roland?

The seed guy. The donor.

You still talk to him?

Yes, I called when I got back.

Why?

I do not want the anonymous donor.

So if Sebastian's asking questions I could answer.

And I want to know him.

I want it ever meet.

What will Mrs. Roland think about that?

There is not.

They are divorced.

Sorry about your divorce.

Thanks.

Do not worry, I'm not all the

details about how...

The marriage ended.

How she's cheated on me.

It's a long time

before I can trust anyone again.

Just leave it there.

Fair enough.

So listen you're under no obligation

to do anything and I don't think you to do anything.

Outside the donation, you

indeed truly amazing job.

You know what I mean.

But when he had questions...

I was honored to receive you call.

Really?

I was wondering about how the

him and you how through out...

Roland wants a picture of him?

I love that.

He's beautiful.

Yeah, right.

I must say that I

from me than you see him.

I could not say this then,

but I really respect you.

Your choice to do so.

There is a lot of courage.

Very brave.

And I do not see often.

What?

No, nothing.

Really kind things to say.

It's true.

This went a lot better than I expected.

Yes me too.

Hot.

I always found penguins a mystery.

I think that of puppies.

I having a birthdays party.

I know it.

There is when you do not want

that someone knows your birthday.

Why you don't want to others people knows your birthday?

Because getting old sucks.

And people have not reached

what they wanted and that also fails.

And living in denial

birthdays and part of that.

Are not you afraid you

Parkinson's will?

Not Parkinson's, but I sometimes

fits of hypochondria.

What is that? Thats thinking that you

have a disease you don't really have.

I have that.

Tell me about your new school.

Why?

Because you're kind of try to hide some of.

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Allan Loeb

Allan Loeb (born July 25, 1969) is an American screenwriter and film and television producer. He wrote the 2007 film Things We Lost in the Fire and created the 2008 television series New Amsterdam. He wrote the film drama 21, which also was released in 2008. Among his other credits, he wrote and produced The Switch (2010). He also co-wrote Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), and wrote The Dilemma (2011), and Just Go with It (2011). He performed a rewrite for the musical Rock of Ages (2012), and the mixed martial arts comedy Here Comes the Boom (2012). more…

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