I liked the cast as well. And while I was intitally skeptical, I really ended up liking the food metaphor thing the movie had going on for it.
My quibble: I thought Keri Russell's character's ambivalence (even hostility) toward her pregnancy was refreshing and very much a plausible emotional state given her character's situation. When she holds her baby for two seconds and all that ambivalence disappears? Lame, Lame Lame. The more interesting choice would have been to have that ambivalence continue. If I'd been making the movie this is the way it would have gone down: The nurse would have asked her if she wanted to hold the baby. She'd have said no, or yes but not looked overjoyed and then everything else would have played out the same way it did, just without the wacky, "My baby fixes everything." I'd have left the final scene the same, so that you can see in the intervening time between the baby's birth and that scene that she has come to love her baby. That makes more sense to me.
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My quibble: I thought Keri Russell's character's ambivalence (even hostility) toward her pregnancy was refreshing and very much a plausible emotional state given her character's situation. When she holds her baby for two seconds and all that ambivalence disappears? Lame, Lame Lame. The more interesting choice would have been to have that ambivalence continue. If I'd been making the movie this is the way it would have gone down: The nurse would have asked her if she wanted to hold the baby. She'd have said no, or yes but not looked overjoyed and then everything else would have played out the same way it did, just without the wacky, "My baby fixes everything." I'd have left the final scene the same, so that you can see in the intervening time between the baby's birth and that scene that she has come to love her baby. That makes more sense to me.