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When single executive Kate Holbrook (Tina Fey) decides the time is right to finally have a baby, she hires a working-class woman (Amy Poehler) from South Philadelphia to act as her surrogate mother. However, Kate's careful planning goes out the window when the woman shows up on her doorstep needing a place to live. A comic battle of wills breaks out between the pair as they prepare for the blessed event and try not to kill one another in the process.
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Just by being so cool, Tina Fey created high expectations for her first starring role.
Through her gigs as head writer for "Saturday Night Live," screenwriter of "Mean Girls" and star/ mastermind of the heavenly "30 Rock," Fey has emerged as the thinking person's sex symbol and/or ideal pal.
The assumption going into "Baby Mama" is that it will follow the same unconventional yet accessible path as Fey's other projects – especially since it co-stars Fey's old "Weekend Update" cohort Amy Poehler. Instead, this story of a corporate vice president (Fey) and the surrogate mother she hires (Poehler) is so committed to convention that it runs into cliché.
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