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The Back-Up Plan
When Zoe tires of looking for Mr. Right, she decides to have a baby on her own. But on the day she's artificially inseminated, she meets Stan, who seems to be just who she's been searching for all her life. Now, Zoe has to figure out how to make her two life's dreams fit with each other.
2010 · Directed by Alan Poul · 106 min · Comedy · Romance · Screenplay in the scene database · 15 frames
Tagline
Fall in love, get married, have a baby. Not necessarily in that order.
Plot
Zoe gives up on finding the man of her dreams, decides to become a single mother and undergoes artificial insemination. The same day, she meets Stan when they both try to hail the same taxi. They run into each other twice more at a farmers market and a book signing. Stan convinces Zoe to go on a no-obligations date. Zoe is still uncertain whether she is pregnant or not and if she should tell Stan. The night she takes the test, Stan takes her for a romantic dinner in a garden. Things don't turn out as well as planned when he spills the wine and a fire occurs. At the end of the night Stan asks her to come to his farm during the weekend and Zoe finds out that she is pregnant.
She goes to the farm determined to tell him that she is pregnant. They sleep together and afterwards Stan is confused and angry that she didn't tell him before and Zoe leaves the next morning believing that things are over between them. However, Stan decides he still wants to be with her and they reconcile. They go to the doctor and find out that Zoe is actually carrying twins. Overwhelmed, Stan goes to a children's playing area to figure out what it means to be a father, but is suspected to be a pervert; this is soon cleared up. He finds a friend there that he can talk to about the pregnancy throughout the movie, while Zoe gets little support from her Single Mothers and Proud group when the group members discover she is no longer single. Stan takes the next step to becoming a father and orders an upgrade to the stroller for the twins. After many misunderstandings and comedic revelations, Zoe and Stan are walking into the Market when they run into Stan's ex-girlfriend. Due to Stan's remark that the twins are not his, Zoe believes that he is not ready to become a father to them, and breaks off the relationship.
Later, the stroller that Stan ordered arrives and Zoe figures out that Stan was never planning to leave. At her grandmother's wedding, Zoe's water breaks and on the way to the hospital they make a pit stop at the market. Zoe apologizes to Stan and they begin to work things out. He pulls out the penny that she turned over when they first met and Zoe promises to trust him more. Zoe gives birth to twin girls, one of whom they name Penny. In the end, Stan opens a store/restaurant next to Zoe's pet shop and after the Grand Opening speech Stan asks Zoe to marry him and she says yes. On their way home, she spontaneously throws up into a trash can and realizes that she may be yet again pregnant.
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Crew
- Written by: Kate Angelo
- Cinematography: Xavier Grobet
- Edited by: Priscilla Nedd-Friendly
- Music: Stephen Trask
- Production design: Alec Hammond
- Produced by: Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, Steve Tisch
Cast
- Jennifer Lopez as Zoe
- Alex O'Loughlin as Stan
- Michaela Watkins as Mona
- Eric Christian Olsen as Clive
- Anthony Anderson as Playground Dad
- Noureen DeWulf as Daphne
- Melissa McCarthy as Carol
- Tom Bosley as Arthur
- Maribeth Monroe as Lori
- Danneel Ackles as Olivia
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Escape Artists, CBS Films
- Budget: $35,000,000
- Box office: $77,477,008
- Themes: pregnancy, kiss, romcom, sperm bank, doctor, single mother, artificial insemination, motherhood, duringcreditsstinger
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