Jackson Booth-Millard From film debuting writer/director Ben Elton (co-creator of Blackadder, writer of The Thin Blue Line and star of Friday/Saturday Night Live), I had heard bad things about this film, but with a good cast of British stars I will still wanting to see it. Basically Lucy Bell (Joely Richardson) and Sam Bell (Hugh Laurie) are the happy couple with good looks, successful careers and a great love life, but what they long for is a baby, and it doesn't seem to be working. They get tested to make sure they can conceive, and everything seems pretty normal, and they try different methods for helping with conception, such as new age therapy, acupuncture, creative sex, and more besides, and these do not work either. So eventually Lucy and Sam decide upon the medical option, by having professionals, such as gynaecologist Mr. James (Rowan Atkinson), checking everything and trying to make the process more likely to work, and they have support from their friends, including hippie Druscilla (Emma Thompson). At the same time, Sam has been suffering writer's block, he works at the BBC as a commissioning editor, and he has to come up with a new idea for a comedy film, and unknown to Lucy he finds inspiration in their struggles, and her private diary. His work friend George (Adrian Lester) knows that he will be in big trouble with his wife if he does not tell her the truth about his writing inspiration, and the new film that is being made, and she is mortified when she finds out for herself. The couple are parted by this incident, and even though the film is completed, with Sam praised for his writing, he does not feel complete without Lucy, who has meanwhile become pregnant. There is the point when they meet again, he apologises, and they make up, with Sam saying that he will look after the baby when it is born, but Lucy has a miscarriage, and in the end all we know is that they carried on trying and trying, it is unclear whether they did get a baby. Also starring Resident Evil's James Purefoy as Carl Phipps, Pirate of the Caribbean's Tom Hollander as Ewan Proclaimer, Matthew Macfadyen as Nigel, Joanna Lumley as Sheila, Dawn French as Charlene and Eden Lake's Kelly Reilly as Nimnh. Laurie is a nice guy with sarcastic one liners, Richardson is sympathetic as the woman who can't get pregnant, and the other well known stars get their small moments, I will agree it is a little flat most of the time, and some of the on the nose jokes don't always work, the story was watchable enough, but overall it is a slightly silly romantic comedy. Adequate!

kdesilv This is a simple movie. Well played and not overly dramatic. The only reason that it got a 9 was the "director" scenes with the drug happy, poorly played character. Considering the depth of the concept the film would have been better suited to a more caring character. It attempted to be a moment of comedy in a moving subject matter. Overall, this is a great movie if you are feeling emotional and want to watch a simple story unfold just as you hope, with twists and turns that make you wish for a happy ending. Without needing a spoiler alert; this film pushes the envelope on the Caucasian assumptions that we can get pregnant when ever we are ready vs. the more realistic ethnicities that understand that babies are made when our bodies are ready, not our careers.

Nicholas Dubreuil That pretty sums it up! I was really hoping that this film would be still part the period where you could REALLY have fun in front of a romantic comedy . By that, I mean before the horrifying amount of ghastly Bridget Jones imitations started to invade theaters with silly plots filled with empty-headed and unsympathetic characters, not to mention unbelievable situations. "Maybe Baby" adds insult to injury by purely and simply riping off John Hughes' delightful classic from the late 80s. A time where you could spend your money on a mainstream movie without systematically feeling totally mugged. The nice bunch of co-stars doesn't save this poor excuse for a film either: Joanna Lumley is wasted, Rowan Atkinson's hamming doesn't help a bit, Emma Thompson is just passing through, and so on and so on... On top of that, all is so unbearably neat and tidy like in a clinic, that you could fear to have been impregnated without knowing it while watching this junk. I'll have to see "Rosemary's Baby" again and again to forget that terrible experience. As for the 90 minutes lost, well, so much for my naivety!

hmcusn294 I'm not a fan of British comedies unless they have sub-titles, without which I cannot understand half the dialogue, and I guess they didn't think this DVD would be sold outside Great Britain; no subtitles, which left me scratching my head during the scenes with the character of the Scottish director.Now, having said that, I loved this movie. I'm not too familiar with most of the players in the film, but Joely Richardson has made enough American films that she is a familiar face, and I thought she was perfect in the role of Lucy, which makes me wonder if some of these reviews are of another film. She was incredibly beautiful and brought life to her character It is a story of a childless British couple, Sam and Lucy Bell, who desperately want a baby but are, so far, infertile. Sam is a screenwriter who has developed a writers block and needs inspiration for a movie plot, and he decides, against Lucy's wishes, to use their struggle to become pregnant as the plot for a script.Lucy is having her own problems as she undergoes humiliating treatments and examinations by her weird OB Gyn, Rowan Atkinson, of Mr. Bean fame, and finds herself drawn to an actor client who has set his sights on her, and we find ourselves wondering if she will succumb to his advances. The story is billed as a comedy but it wanders back and forth between comedy, pathos and drama, and in the end leaves you wanting to see it again.....and if you are like me, again.