What to Expect When You're Expecting Page #11

Synopsis: Five couples' intertwined lives are turned upside down by the challenges of impending parenthood. Over the moon about starting a family, TV fitness guru Jules and dance show star Evan find that their high-octane celebrity lives don't stand a chance against the surprise demands of pregnancy. Baby-crazy author and advocate Wendy gets a taste of her own militant mommy advice when pregnancy hormones ravage her body; while Wendy's husband, Gary, struggles not to be outdone by his competitive alpha-Dad, who's expecting twins with his much younger trophy wife, Skyler. Photographer Holly is prepared to travel the globe to adopt a child, but her husband Alex isn't so sure, and tries to quiet his panic by attending a "dudes" support group, where new fathers get to tell it like it really is. And rival food truck chefs Rosie and Marco's surprise hook-up results in an unexpected quandary: what to do when your first child comes before your first date?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Kirk Jones
Production: Lionsgate Films
  12 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.7
Metacritic:
41
Rotten Tomatoes:
22%
PG-13
Year:
2012
110 min
$41,102,171
Website
1,319 Views


Mr. Cooper, I think you need to step out.

We have everything under control in here.

It's okay. Come with me.

GARY:
Wendy, are you gonna be

all right? Wendy?

Hey.

- Hey.

- You've got doctor clothes on.

Yeah.

Everything okay?

We have a son.

But Wendy lost a lot of blood in there

so they made me wait out here.

So I don't know what's going on inside.

'Cause they made me wait out here.

It's gonna be okay.

I'm here for you. All right?

Thanks, Dad.

(SOBBING)

(BELL DINGING)

Here they come.

(SPEAKING AMHARIC)

INTERPRETER:
I promise to

watch over this child.

ALL:
I promise to watch over this child.

(MAN SPEAKING AMHARIC)

INTERPRETER:
And to bring him up

proud and strong.

ALL:
And to bring him up proud and strong.

(MAN SPEAKING AMHARIC)

And as one who will always remember

his Ethiopian heritage.

(MAN SPEAKING AMHARIC)

So help me God.

ALL:
So help me God.

INTERPRETER:
Amen.

Hi.

There we go, there we are.

I've been waiting for you!

Congratulations. You are parents.

Mr. Cooper? She's awake.

Name, "Emerson Jane Webber."

Mmm-mmm.

No. Mmm-mmm.

- Baxter-Webber.

- I hate hyphenated names.

Are we ever going to agree on anything?

The little stuff, probably not.

The big stuff? Yes.

I can live with that.

Me, too.

Marry me.

No.

I'm just kidding. (LAUGHING)

I thought you'd never ask.

(BABY CRIES)

(BOTH LAUGH)

- Is that okay with you, too?

- Is that all right with you?

Yeah? Yeah?

Way to go, Tater Tot.

WENDY:
Hi, little Theo.

Hi, little guy.

Oh, Gary, he's so beautiful.

Look at his little nose

and his perfect little lips.

And he's so wise.

Can't you tell? He's so wise.

That was the scariest night of my life.

It was awful.

No.

It was beautiful.

It was so incredibly beautiful.

Yeah. That's what I meant.

It was incredibly beautiful.

I finally found it.

He's my glow.

He's my perfect, perfect glow.

- Feeling all right, Susie?

- Shut up.

ROSIE:
Marco?

Rosie, hey.

Hey. What are you guys doing here?

Dip-sh*t ran over my toe.

Oh, my God!

That is... I'm sorry.

No, that's okay. It's funny. Now.

I'll meet you in the truck, man.

- I'm really sorry.

- Okay.

- What are you doing here?

- My cousin,

the one married to that old...

The racecar dude.

- Oh, yeah.

- She had her babies, she had twins.

- Nice. Congratulations. That's great.

- Thanks.

I was gonna go see them.

Uh...

Do you wanna?

- What?

- I don't know if that's weird.

It's a little weird,

but, yeah, I'd love to.

You okay?

Yeah. I'll have another chance

when the time's right.

You will.

Those caramels were delicious, by the way.

The car-mels were really good,

weren't they?

- Car-mels?

- Yeah.

Caramels. What is wrong with you?

That's one good-looking kid you got there,

Dr. Cooper.

Thanks. You, too.

When you were born,

I wasn't even in the room.

Back then, no dad was.

Yeah. Maybe that was a good thing though.

I don't know. I missed a lot.

End of the day, family's all that matters.

Not the races, and the trophies,

and the endorsements.

Not the money and the women,

and the sex, and the drugs.

Partying with Jimmy Buffett

on the back of Willie Nelson's bus.

None of that means jack sh*t when I'm gone.

But you guys. My kids,

that's all we really leave behind.

Say, "Mommy." Say, "Mama."

(LAUGHS)

(BABIES CRYING)

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Shauna Cross

Shauna Cross is an American screenwriter, novelist and former roller derby athlete. She skated for the Los Angeles Derby Dolls under the pseudonym "Maggie Mayhem", and subsequently wrote the 2007 novel Derby Girl, a fictionalized version of her experiences in the TXRD Lonestar Rollergirls league. In 2009, she wrote a film adaption of the novel, Whip It, which was directed by Drew Barrymore and released in 2009. She was named one of Variety's 10 Screenwriters to Watch in 2008. more…

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