Product Details

• Actors: Megan Fahlenbock, Angela Vint
• Directors: Alison Reid
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: WOLFE VIDEO
• DVD Release Date: March 9, 2010
• Run Time: 81 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0031SBOPI
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #109,892 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Baby Formula" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good formula for laghter, July 12, 2010

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Denise Escamilla Ortiz "catslord" (Mexico City, Mexico) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Baby Formula (DVD)

This is a good comedy. The topic is quite interesting, and the way they tackle it is great. In this utopian scenario two women are being able to conceive a baby from each other thanks to science. Probably what I enjoyed the most was realizing that all families have their issues, no matter what the sexual orientation of their members is. It's very interesting to see how these two women deal with their pregnancies, their family relations, and their own relationship as life partners. And while you watch all this happening you get to laugh a lot.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful film!, January 7, 2010

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Minoh - See all my reviews

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I really enjoyed this film and have recommended it to others. It's very funny, with a great cast, and it also has a serious side. Well made Canadian film that is worth seeing!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Baby Formula review, January 12, 2010

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Tracy L. Baim - See all my reviews
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REELING FILM FEST 2009 A closer look at 'Baby Formula'
by Tracy Baim
2009-11-04

Mockumentary-style filmmaking is among my favorites, but it has been over-indulged and not true to its form in some recent TV shows and movies. However, The Baby Formula is among my new favorite lesbian films.

I had a chance to meet the film's director, Alison Reid, and her partner, Cheryl Izen, at San Francisco's Frameline Film fest this summer, when Hannah Free premiered, and they were very generous in offering advice about their road so far with their first feature film. I had loved the trailer for Baby Formula but, as with a lot of lesbian films, I feared the trailer would not live up to my expectations. It does, and I highly recommend this comedy for your Reeling viewing pleasure.

The Baby Formula, made in Canada, follows the exploits of a lesbian couple who are on the sci-fi fertility cutting edge, in a perhaps not-too-distant future when lesbians can actually have each other's babies rather than need an outside donor. Holy hormones, Catwoman! Watch out as the tears and laughter begin.

Angela Vint ( Athena ) and Megan Fahlenbock ( Lilith ) are well-cast as these partners in parenting, and you have a real sense of their screen partnership. In real life, director Reid managed to shoot this film timed to the actor's real pregnancies. The water breaking? That was happening in real life the same day. I can't even imagine how difficult this shoestring budget was with the added dimension of real pregnancies.

The science in Baby Formula has the spark of reality because Reid did her research, speaking to scientists and bioethicists.

"Until recently, it has been impossible for gay couples to conceive of the idea of being able to combine their genetics and have their own biological children," Reid writes in her press kit. "That has always struck me as sad. When I read an article about some science that made it possible to create offspring from two female mice, it resonated with me, and inspired me to make this film."

The two leads are wonderful, but Jessica Booker is particularly great as Grandma Kate, who steals the scenes she is in. Each of the family members have their own troubles, and the actors are allowed to seem human, not stereotypes. And wait for the credits, because the scene with the stars singing Black Eyes Peas' "My Humps" is not to be missed.