Obvious Child is a 2014 American romanticcomedy-drama film written and directed by Gillian Robespierre (in her directorial debut) and stars Jenny Slate, Jake Lacy, Gaby Hoffmann and David Cross. The story follows Donna, a stand-up comedian, who has a drunken one-night stand with a man named Max after breaking up with her boyfriend. She subsequently finds out she is pregnant and decides to have an abortion.
Obvious Child originated as a 2009 short film which was written by Robespierre, Anna Bean and Karen Maine, and also starred Slate in the main role. By making the film, Robespierre hoped to remove the stigma surrounding abortion and to correct what she perceived as a misrepresentation of unplanned pregnancy in earlier films. She finished the feature-length script in 2012.
After performing a set at her regular comedy club, Donna Stern is dumped in the bathroom by her boyfriend, Ryan, who confesses he is leaving her for one of her friends. Donna tailspins into a wave of depression and later drunkenly delivers a terrible set in which she insults her ex-boyfriend. Later that night, at the bar, she meets Max, who is there with clients but who missed her set. Donna and Max have an instant connection and they end up having sex. In the morning Donna leaves Max's apartment without saying goodbye.
Several weeks after their one-night stand, Donna discovers that her breasts are sore while trying on clothes and suspects she is pregnant. A home pregnancy test later confirms this. Donna visits a Planned Parenthood clinic to schedule an abortion and discovers the only dates available are her mother's birthday and Valentine's Day; she picks Valentine's Day.
Max tracks Donna down at the bookstore where she works and they have the first of several awkward conversations. Donna then runs into Max when he stops by her mother's apartment to return a book to her mother, Nancy, who is a former professor of his. They have dinner together where Donna is prepared to tell Max about her pregnancy and impending abortion, but cannot bring herself to tell him after he makes a comment about how he wants to be a grandfather someday. He comes to Donna's comedy show, but her set is canceled and she leaves with another man, Sam. She has an awkward evening with Sam and quickly leaves. After her terrible night, Donna visits her mother to talk about her upcoming abortion. Her mother comforts her by telling her that she too had an abortion before Donna was conceived.
Donna regrets pushing Max away and leaves him several unreturned voicemails apologizing and saying she really does need to talk to him. As a final effort, she invites him to the club to see her perform. Max arrives just as she goes on stage to perform a set about how she is pregnant and will have an abortion the next day. Max leaves, but on the day of Donna's abortion, he arrives at her home with flowers and asks if he can accompany her to her procedure. While at the clinic he tells her he supports her, and that when he said that he wanted to be a grandfather, he didn’t mean tomorrow but sometime far in the future. After the abortion, Max takes Donna to his home where he makes her tea, and then they watch Gone with the Wind together.
Cast
Jenny Slate as Donna Stern, a comedian who works at a bookstore
Cindy Cheung as Dr. Bernard, a physician at the Planned Parenthood clinic
Stephen Singer as Gene, owner of the bookstore at which Donna works
Production
Obvious Child originated as a short film of the same name about an unemployed woman who decides to terminate her pregnancy resulting from a one-night stand, which was written by Gillian Robespierre, Anna Bean and Karen Maine.[2] Robespierre said that the story was spawned from her frustration with what she perceived as a "misrepresentation of women on screen when it came to unplanned pregnancy", in films such as Juno (2007), Knocked Up (2007) and Waitress (2007).[2] Robespierre, Bean and Maine, feeling "disenchanted with the representation of young women's experience with becoming pregnant",[3] wanted to make a film that destigmatized an abortion by featuring a woman who terminates a pregnancy without regretting her decision.[4]Jenny Slate was cast as the lead after Robespierre and Bean saw Slate performing stand-up comedy.[5] The short was produced in 2009 and released on the video-sharing website Vimeo, where it was watched by 40,000 people.[3]
Inspired by the responses to the short film, Robespierre decided to expand the story into a feature film, and wrote an extended screenplay with Karen Maine and Elisabeth Holm.[3] Although the writers wanted to "stick as close ... as possible" to the original story and characters, they changed the lead character's profession to stand-up comedy.[5] The film's stand-up scenes were written by Robespierre, who tried to emulate Jenny Slate's style of comedy, and were revised by Slate and Gabe Liedman, another comedian, who also volunteered their own material.[6] The script was written over an 18-month period before Robespierre and Holm began to seek financiers to fund the film's production;[7] they started sending the script to potential financiers in November 2012.[8] It was financed through a variety of sources, including the production companies Animal Kingdom Films, Rooks Nest Entertainment, Sundial Pictures and Votiv Films, as well as grants from Rooftop Films, the Tribeca Film Institute and the San Francisco Film Society.[3]
The film was shot by cinematographer Chris Teague over 18 days in New York during April 2013.[3][8][9] The filmmakers were given permission by Planned Parenthood to film for a day in the organization's New Rochelle clinic.[2] The film was edited by Casey Brooks in Greenpoint, Brooklyn,[9] and the score was written by Robespierre's boyfriend.[8]
Release
Obvious Child premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 17, 2014.[10] A Kickstarter campaign to help send the film to Sundance was created by the director on December 13, 2013, earning a total of $37,214 by January 14, 2014.[11][7] Independent film distributor A24 bought the film's North American distribution rights, while international distribution rights were purchased by The Exchange.[12]Obvious Child was released in the United States on June 6, 2014
Posters for the film advertised it as an "abortion comedy".[2] Gillian Robespierre said that she found the descriptor reductive,[13][14] but also said that she was pleased that the word "abortion" was being used on the film's poster and in headlines about the film.[15] Writing for Entertainment Weekly, Emily Blake speculated that the film's lack of recognition in mainstream award circles may have been due to its label as "the abortion comedy".[16]NBC drew criticism for requesting that the word "abortion" be removed from an online advertisement for the film; it apologized after a petition circulated by Planned Parenthood accused the network of censorship.[17] The film was marketed in conjunction with the abortion-rights organization NARAL Pro-Choice America.[18]
The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray in North America on October 7, 2014. Extra features include an audio commentary with Robespierre, Elisabeth Holm and Jenny Slate, a featurette about the film's production, a collection of extended scenes, and the original 2009 Obvious Child short film on which the feature was based.[19]
Reception
Box office
Obvious Child earned $3,123,963 at the box office in 18 weeks.[20] It also earned $197,361 and $4,093 in the United Kingdom and New Zealand respectively, making a total gross of $3,325,417.[21]
Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 90% based on 168 reviews, with an average rating of 7.3/10. The critical consensus from the website states, "Tackling a sensitive subject with maturity, honesty, and wit, Obvious Child serves as a deeply promising debut for writer-director Gillian Robespierre."[22] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 76 out of 100, based on 35 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[23]
Peter Travers described Obvious Child as "uniquely special" in Rolling Stone,[24] while The Washington Post's Ann Hornaday described it as "one of the most startlingly honest romantic comedies to appear onscreen in years".[25]Ty Burr of The Boston Globe found the characters sympathetic and realistic, and enjoyed the humor.[26]The New York Times' chief critic A. O. Scott praised the film for striking a balance between humor and sentimentality, writing, "It's both funny and serious without trying too hard to be either, and by trying above all to be honest."[27] Peter Debruge described Jenny Slate as "wildly funny" in Variety,[28] while Marc Mohan called her performance "endearing and real" in The Oregonian.[29]The Hollywood Reporter'sTodd McCarthy was also impressed by Slate's performance and opined that the supporting cast members were equally impressive.[30]
Numerous critics praised Obvious Child for its portrayal of abortion, including Dana Stevens of Slate, who wrote that the way Donna's abortion was portrayed was humane and politically neutral but also that the film, "for all its lightness of tone, is radical".[31] In a review for The Guardian, Xan Brooks described the film as "fresh and funny and really rather brave" for handling a controversial topic that other filmmakers routinely avoid.[32]New York critic David Edelstein called Robespierre "brave enough to be ambivalent" in choosing not to include a blatant political message in the film.[33] The San Francisco Chronicle'sMick LaSalle similarly concluded that "If the movie has a political statement, it's a subtle one"; he also praised the film for treating the topic sincerely while still maintaining a humorous tone.[34]
Conversely, Michelle Golberg suggested in a review for The Nation that the film's popularity with critics was not due to its quality but rather its taboo subject matter: "If the ordinary drama of abortion were more regularly represented in the movies, Obvious Child wouldn't be much more than an amusing hipster diversion."[35] Kate Taylor of The Globe and Mail expressed a similar sentiment and opined that many of the film's jokes were crude and lacking in humor.[36]USA Today's Scott Bowles also found Obvious Child unfunny, describing the characters as "so morbid and whiny that the jokes don't work, even as irony".[37]
The film was criticized by a variety of conservative and anti-abortion groups and publications.[14][38] In an article for The Human Life Review, Mary Rose Somarriba dismissed the film as "obvious propaganda".[39] Katelyn Beaty, meanwhile, who reviewed Obvious Child for Christianity Today, wrote: "While I ultimately disagree with Robespierre's political aims, at the least she has provided a sometimes funny, often tender portrait of many (though not all) women who face an unplanned pregnancy."[40]
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