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Obvious Child

2014

Gillian Robespierre

Jenny Slate, Jake Lacy, Gaby Hoffmann, Paul Briganti ...

5.8

1,357

Romance. Comedy A girl walks into a bar…and starts telling jokes about her vagina and her boyfriend. But it turns out the joke’s on her: the boyfriend’s been sleeping with her friend, and he takes advantage of her public, extremely off-color verbal antics to dump her. Basting in misery (she’s also about to lose her job) and alcohol (with a gay wing-man on hand to enable her), she attempts to find solace in family, friends, more stand-up, and ultimately ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"A wildly funny and appealing female-centric comedy that launches very promising talent on both sides of the camera (...) Slate is terrific in the stand-up sequences"	POS
United Kingdom	Xan Brooks The Guardian	"'Obvious Child' might hail from the same grungy sorority as Frances Ha or Lena Dunham's Girls, but it has a bounce and vitality that is inimitably its own (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"Jenny Slate shines in a romantic comedy that dares to consider the subject of abortion suitable for date-night crowds"	POS
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Obvious Child is funnier, and more honest, than any female-centric cinema produced in Hollywood today."	POS
United States	Kyle Smith New York Post	"Attempting to subvert the rom-com formula, “Obvious Child” is instead simply a bad rom-com (...) Rating: ★½ (out of four)"	NEG

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