What to Expect When You're Expecting (2012) on Netflix
PG-1320121h 50mComedyDramaRomance
Jules, a fitness trainer, and Evan, her dance partner, learn she is pregnant. Four other couples in Atlanta face adoption, conception and food-truck rivalry as parenthood approaches.
- Netflix3.7/5
- IMDb5.7/1078,559 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes23%
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Plot summary
Five couples in Atlanta move through the changes that come with a baby on the way. Jules Baxter and Evan Webber, partners on a celebrity dance show, discover she is pregnant. Wendy Cooper runs a breastfeeding boutique and has spent two years trying to conceive with her husband Gary; when she finally does, the experience is not the comfortable one she pictured. Gary's father Ramsey, a race car driver, and his much younger wife Skyler are also expecting. Photographer Holly Castillo and her husband Alex plan to adopt a child from Ethiopia, but Alex is unsure, so Holly sends him to a park group for fathers led by Vic Mac. Food truck chefs Rosie Brennan and Marco reconnect during a turf war and soon face an unexpected pregnancy.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about What to Expect When You're Expecting (2012)
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- Heather Hach was nine months pregnant when she was hired to write the film's screenplay “based on her pitch”, a story following seven couples who experience the ups and downs of preparing for parenthood.
- Jones had never shot five simultaneous stories before and found scheduling tough: out of necessity he shot everything with Jennifer Lopez in two weeks and everything with Cameron Diaz in two weeks, because they could not keep flying in from another continent for two days of work.
- What to Expect When You're Expecting, written by Heidi Murkoff, came out as a pregnancy guide in 1984; it was dubbed “the bible of American pregnancy” and has sold over 20 million units worldwide.
