• Cath Clarke
• The Guardian,
• Friday September 19 2008

 

 

 

Salman Rushdie makes an odd little cameo as an obstetrician in this American indie film; cue ripples of giggles both times he appears a bit stiffly in his white coat. It's not the only misstep in Oscar-winning actress Helen Hunt's first film as director, which is a shame because she does a lot of things right. But she isn't helped either by her own slightly frosty performance as a school teacher trying for a baby, who gets pregnant just as her husband (Matthew Broderick) walks out. Colin Firth complicates matters as love interest number two, a British divorcee writer prone to bursts of foul language. More adventurous casting would have had him playing the doctor and Rushdie as the writer boyfriend.

 

adventurous – pomysłowy, śmiały

burst – wybuch

cameo – rola gościnna

cue – podpowiadany przez suflera

foul language – wulgarny język

indie (movie) – (film) niezależny

obstetrician – lekarz położnik

prone to – podatny na

ripple – kaskada (śmiechu)

walk out - odchodzić

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