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

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

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!!Provides examples of:
* 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.]]
* 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?".
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