Follow TV Tropes

Following

History Film / MaybeBaby

Go To

OR

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


''Maybe Baby'' is a 2000 British comedy film written and directed by Creator/BenElton, adapted from his 1999 novel ''Inconceivable''. It stars Creator/HughLaurie and Joely Richardson as a couple trying for a baby, with a supporting cast that includes Creator/JoannaLumley, Creator/EmmaThompson, Creator/RowanAtkinson, and [[Series/FrenchAndSaunders Dawn French]].

to:

''Maybe Baby'' is a 2000 British comedy film written and directed by Creator/BenElton, adapted from his 1999 novel ''Inconceivable''. It stars Creator/HughLaurie and Joely Richardson Creator/JoelyRichardson as a couple trying for a baby, with a supporting cast that includes Creator/JoannaLumley, Creator/EmmaThompson, Creator/RowanAtkinson, and [[Series/FrenchAndSaunders Dawn French]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None



to:

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Sam and Lucy don't manage to have a baby, but they get over their spat, resolving to love one another for the rest of their lives.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


''Maybe Baby'' is a 2000 British comedy film written and directed by Creator/BenElton, based on his 1999 novel ''Inconceivable''. It stars Creator/HughLaurie and Joely Richardson as a couple trying for a baby, with a supporting cast that includes Creator/JoannaLumley, Creator/EmmaThompson, Creator/RowanAtkinson, and [[Series/FrenchAndSaunders Dawn French]].

to:

''Maybe Baby'' is a 2000 British comedy film written and directed by Creator/BenElton, based on adapted from his 1999 novel ''Inconceivable''. It stars Creator/HughLaurie and Joely Richardson as a couple trying for a baby, with a supporting cast that includes Creator/JoannaLumley, Creator/EmmaThompson, Creator/RowanAtkinson, and [[Series/FrenchAndSaunders Dawn French]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


''Maybe Baby'' is a 2000 British comedy film written and directed by Creator/BenElton, based on his novel ''Inconceivable''. It stars Creator/HughLaurie and Joely Richardson as a couple trying for a baby, with a supporting cast that includes Creator/JoannaLumley, Creator/EmmaThompson, Creator/RowanAtkinson, and [[Series/FrenchAndSaunders Dawn French]].

to:

''Maybe Baby'' is a 2000 British comedy film written and directed by Creator/BenElton, based on his 1999 novel ''Inconceivable''. It stars Creator/HughLaurie and Joely Richardson as a couple trying for a baby, with a supporting cast that includes Creator/JoannaLumley, Creator/EmmaThompson, Creator/RowanAtkinson, and [[Series/FrenchAndSaunders Dawn French]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


-> ''It's a matter of life and sex.''
-->-- Tagline

to:

-> ''It's ''"It's a matter of life and sex.''
"''
-->-- Tagline
'''{{Tagline}}'''

Added: 77

Changed: 195

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


[[quoteright:300:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_0819.JPG]]



''Maybe Baby'' is a 2000 British comedy film, written and directed by Ben Elton, and based on his novel ''Inconceivable''. It stars Creator/HughLaurie and Joely Richardson as a couple trying for a baby.

Sam Bell is a failing screenwriter married to Lucy, a secretary taking a course in Creator/WilliamShakespeare. Sam decides to write what he knows, and he knows infertility. He wife Lucy is against it, but he goes ahead with it anyway. It doesn't end well...

to:

''Maybe Baby'' is a 2000 British comedy film, film written and directed by Ben Elton, and Creator/BenElton, based on his novel ''Inconceivable''. It stars Creator/HughLaurie and Joely Richardson as a couple trying for a baby.

baby, with a supporting cast that includes Creator/JoannaLumley, Creator/EmmaThompson, Creator/RowanAtkinson, and [[Series/FrenchAndSaunders Dawn French]].

Sam Bell (Laurie) is a failing screenwriter married to Lucy, Lucy (Richardson), a secretary taking a course in Creator/WilliamShakespeare. Sam decides to write what he knows, and he knows infertility. He wife Lucy is against it, but he goes ahead with it anyway. It doesn't end well...

Added: 261

Changed: 252

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


''Maybe Baby'' is a 2000 British comedy film, written and directed by Ben Elton, and based on his novel ''Inconceivable''. It stars Creator/HughLaurie and Joely Richardson as a couple trying for a baby. Sam Bell is a failing screenwriter married to Lucy, a secretary taking a course in Creator/WilliamShakespeare. Sam decides to write what he knows, and he knows infertility. He wife is against it, but he goes ahead with it anyway. It doesn't end well...

to:

''Maybe Baby'' is a 2000 British comedy film, written and directed by Ben Elton, and based on his novel ''Inconceivable''. It stars Creator/HughLaurie and Joely Richardson as a couple trying for a baby.

Sam Bell is a failing screenwriter married to Lucy, a secretary taking a course in Creator/WilliamShakespeare. Sam decides to write what he knows, and he knows infertility. He wife Lucy is against it, but he goes ahead with it anyway. It doesn't end well...
well...

----
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


''Maybe Baby'' is a 2000 British comedy film, written and directed by Ben Elton, and based on his novel ''Inconceivable''. It stars HughLaurie and Joely Richardson as a couple trying for a baby. Sam Bell is a failing screenwriter married to Lucy, a secretary taking a course in Creator/WilliamShakespeare. Sam decides to write what he knows, and he knows infertility. He wife is against it, but he goes ahead with it anyway. It doesn't end well...

to:

''Maybe Baby'' is a 2000 British comedy film, written and directed by Ben Elton, and based on his novel ''Inconceivable''. It stars HughLaurie Creator/HughLaurie and Joely Richardson as a couple trying for a baby. Sam Bell is a failing screenwriter married to Lucy, a secretary taking a course in Creator/WilliamShakespeare. Sam decides to write what he knows, and he knows infertility. He wife is against it, but he goes ahead with it anyway. It doesn't end well...
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

-> ''It's a matter of life and sex.''
-->-- Tagline

''Maybe Baby'' is a 2000 British comedy film, written and directed by Ben Elton, and based on his novel ''Inconceivable''. It stars HughLaurie and Joely Richardson as a couple trying for a baby. Sam Bell is a failing screenwriter married to Lucy, a secretary taking a course in Creator/WilliamShakespeare. Sam decides to write what he knows, and he knows infertility. He wife is against it, but he goes ahead with it anyway. It doesn't end well...

!!Provides examples of:

* BlackComedy: What Ewan Proclaimer's [[ShowWithinAShow script]] ''Sick Junkie'' is supposed to be.
* CharacterDevelopment: The IVF plot, and Lucy's diary entry/monologue about longing for children.
* ClusterFBomb: "I knew it was shite, long before you told me it was shite. But at least, I write shite. You sit on your arse at the taxpayers expense and tell people who write shite that what they write is shite. But you know what? My shite shits on your shite."
** Later on he comments that Sam's script is 'good shite'.
* DeadpanSnarker: Lucy, Sam, etc.
* GranolaGirl: Druscilla.
* NoIndoorVoice: [[LargeHam Nigel, Sam's boss]].
* OverlyLongGag: Ewan's monologue on shite.
* ShowWithinAShow: ''Sick Junkie'' and Sam's film.
* {{Squick}}: George's reaction to talk of sperm tests and IVF treatment. [[invoked]]
* YouJustToldMe: Played with; when Nigel calls him a wanker, he's in the middle of a conversation about sperm tests, he asks "How did you know?".
----

Top