Preggoland (2014) on Netflix
Ruth Huxley is 35, unmarried, working a grocery store checkout while her friends have moved on to marriages and children. Mistaken for pregnant, she lets the lie stand to keep her job.
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- Netflix2.6/5
- IMDb5.6/10875 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes47%
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Plot summary
Ruth Huxley lives in her father's house and works a grocery store checkout while her oldest friends have married and started families. She arrives hungover at a baby shower given by Shannon, swings at a piñata and injures a child, and her friends cut her off. A stroller she buys as an apology leads passersby in a park to take her for pregnant, and her hangover is read at work as morning sickness. She lets the assumption stand: the lie brings her back into her friends' lives and gives her father hope of a grandchild, while Ruth's sister Hillary, who wants a child of her own, resents the attention. To keep it up, Ruth asks Pedro, the store's janitor, a former physician who cannot practice in North America, for help. His wife makes her a prosthetic belly.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Preggoland (2014)
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- Sonja Bennett, who wrote and starred in Preggoland as Ruth, came up with the idea while pregnant with her first child; by the time production began she had a ten-month-old and a three-year-old, and she recalled expressing breast milk in her trailer between takes while talking with co-star James Caan.
- Preggoland won the Most Popular Canadian Film Award at the 2014 Vancouver International Film Festival, where Bennett said at the closing gala that the film's premise mirrored her own life, noting that she and her husband, actor Stephen Lobo, had two children by then.
