Top Five Recent Romantic Comedies that in which a Couple has Kid Via Sperm Donor/One-night Stand
by Ernie on 23/08/10 at 10:17 am
5. The Switch (2010): Single, aging career gal Jennifer Aniston decides to have a baby with an anonymous sperm donor. However, her plans go awry when her best friend substitutes his own special sauce for the donor’s, which becomes increasingly obvious as the child grows. Romance ensues.
4. The Backup Plan (2010): Single, aging career gal Jennifer Lopez decides to have a baby with an anonymous sperm donor. Minutes after being impregnated, however, she meets Mr. Right. Romance ensues.
3. The Kids are All Right (2010): Domestically-partnered, aging lesbian couple Annette Benning and Julianne Moore have two children via a sperm donor. The kids decide to seek out the donor. The unlikely couple of lesbian woman and straight man meet. Romance ensues.
2. What a Girl Wants (2003): A teen raised by a single mother learns that her father is some guy her mother had a brief affair with, after which he was never seen again, and he has no idea he has a child, much like a sperm donor. Then, the daughter looks him up and romance ensues (between her mother and father, I must clarify).
1. Mamma Mia (2008): Several brief romantic liaisons result in a child, with the child inviting all likely candidates to her wedding so that she can learn which one is her father. Romance ensues (between her mother and one of the fathers, we must clarify).
Extras: Knocked Up (2007): A one-night stand results in a pregnancy. The unlikely couple end up spending time together. Romance ensues.
Juno (2007): A one-night stand results in a pregnancy. The very likely couple of the titular character and Michael Cera (boyfriend in every teen movie of the past 4 years, except for the ones starring Jessie Eisenberg, who is morphing into Michael Cera over time) then spend the rest of the movie barely talking, only to have romance ensue at the end of the movie.
Emeritus!
Made in America (1993): In this 1993 bomb, known today mainly because it brought Ted Danson and Whoopi Goldberg together for a time, Whoopi is a single mother with a child fathered by an anonymous sperm donor said to be tall, intelligent, and black. But due to a mixup, whitebread Danson ended up being the father, a fact discovered years later when Whoopi’s daughter investigates who her father is. The unlikely couple meet. Romance ensues!
The grand-daddy of them all!
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944): Chipper small town girl (Trudy Kockenlocker) gets drunk with some servicemen and ends up pregnant, but doesn’t know who the father is. In a nod to the censors, she got married to the guy during the drunken whatever, but they used fake names so she doesn’t know who he is. She frantically tries to find out who the father is, while nerdy 4F guy who loves her from afar tries to step in to be the father and save her from shame. Romance ensues!
