summary
Envious of her bestfriends pregnancy Lainy decides to fake her pregnancy using Fake baby bumps in front of her new friend and the guy she likes. A funny dramatic movie recommended to watch when feeling low or sad. A straight 10 for humour but lags a bit in the story part.
characters
- The movie revolves around Lainy Newton who is an orphan eagerly wanting to start a family.
- Kate – Lainy’s best friend but also the closest thing to family she has, always standing by her side through every challenge and joy.
- Dave – Lainy’s boyfriend who only relies on Lainy for satisfying his physical need but Lainy being covered in blindness of love fails to realise so.
- Megan – A friend Lainy meets in pregnancy yoga class and ends up becoming a part of their family. Also works as a teacher in the same school as Lainy
- Josh – Lainy’s dream partner and Megan’s Brother
plot
The movie begins with a childhood scene of our lead character Lainy Newton,presently a high school English teacher who desperately wants to explore the magic of a female body to give birth.
Lainy’s boyfriend Dave asks her out on an evening date to talk about something special, to which Lainy is happy as she thinks Dave is going to propose to Lainy for marriage. Despite her surprise Dave asks her for a threesome with another girl to which Lainy reacts very violently and embarases Dave in the restaurant.
Dealing with emotional Trauma from last night Lainy ends up breaking down in front of her students while discussing the love story of Romeo and Juliet. She collects the notebook from students and burns them down which further triggers the fire sensors and the school is evacuated. This was the most hilarious scene of the movie
Drowning in sadness and tears, she suddenly receives the wonderful news that her best friend is pregnant. However, instead of pure joy, a wave of jealousy washes over her, as she had always dreamed of starting a family and experiencing the magic of motherhood—yet her best friend got the chance to fulfill that dream first.
While shopping with Kate, Lainy decides to sneak into the trial room with a fake baby bump where she is touched with the reaction of the lady and her humble behaviour towards her knowing she is pregnant. So she decides to shoplift the fake bump.
On one fine day in a coffee shop Lainy spots an annoying colleague of hers in order to avoid her she starts talking to a stranger besides her. Lainy kindoff starts to like the stranger after a short conversation.
She is happy with the people on the street treating her nicely and passing her gifts due to her fake pregnancy belly. She decides to go to a yoga class for pregnant womens where she meets Megan and their bonding overtime begins to deepen but Lainy still decides to fake her pregnancy in order to receive warm behaviour from people she always craved for.
Lainy discovers the stranger she met a few days ago at the coffee shop is Megan’s brother Josh but ends up lying to Megan and her family about her pregnancy in order to build trust and stay close to them. Lainy’s relationship with Josh grows stronger as she moves on from Dave.
Kate invites Lainy for a meeting but ends up fighting with her accusing her of being jealous of her best friend’s pregnancy. Despite Lainy being jealous, she was doing everything a good friend should for a friend in pregnancy. After several days of not talking to each other Kate invites Lainy to her baby shower and Megan is present there too.
Lainy reveals the truth about her pregnancy, losing a friend she recently made and her dream boyfriend. After a few days she confronts Megan that in order to get love from her family she told a lie.
Review
According to me all her lies were justified as they say “ to love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
It’s a great movie for some laughs, but what I took away from it was learning to view jealousy as a natural emotion and to forgive the people I love.