The Switch
2010
⏱️ 101 minutes
📅 Released
🌐 EN
ComedyRomanceDrama
Kassie is a smart, fun-loving single woman who, despite her neurotic best friend Wally’s objections, decides it’s time to have a baby – even if it means doing it herself… with a little help from a charming sperm donor. But, unbeknownst to her, Kassie’s plans go awry because of a last-minute switch that isn’t discovered until seven years later… when Wally gets acquainted with Kassie’s cute, though slightly neurotic, son.
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User Reviews
Really good watch, would watch again, and can recommend.
While the movie has the appropriate seriousness for a family reconnection, it is rather filled with humor, be it some is situational and goes quite a length to deliver a joke. It makes for a better drama than a comedy, but that sort of thing is bound to happen when the movie rides the line.
I'm not a fan of Jennifer Aniston, but the role feels more whiner-baby than her usual fair. I am a fan of Jason Bateman, and I think he nails when to be funny, absurd, neurotic, or serious.
For a movie about swapping sperm samples, it really is a powerful story. That family reconnection trope is excellent even without the absurdity of the premise.
January 12, 2021
Crew
Director
Josh Gordon, Will Speck
Writer
Allan Loeb
Producer
Jennifer Aniston, Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa
Production
Mandate Pictures, Echo Films, Miramax, Bona Fide Productions
Keywords
new york citypregnancyhypochondriaclittle boysingle motherbased on short storysperm donorartificial inseminationprecocious childneurotic