Movie Review

Miss Conception (2008)

EW's GRADE
C-

Details Limited Release: Jun 06, 2008; Rated: R; Length: 94 Minutes; Genre: Comedy; With: Heather Graham

NO BLESSED EVENT Heather Graham is charming, but Miss Conception is a cloddish biological-clock bedroom farce | Miss Conception, Heather Graham
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NO BLESSED EVENT Heather Graham is charming, but Miss Conception is a cloddish biological-clock bedroom farce

In this comedy set in London, Heather Graham has acquired a crisp and saucy British accent, which somehow makes her seem the blond twin of Helena Bonham Carter. Graham is charming, but Miss Conception is a cloddish biological-clock bedroom farce. She plays a thirtysomething yuppie, with a baby-phobic boyfriend, who learns that she has just four days to get pregnant (something about being down to one egg). She spends more or less every scene trying, and failing, to shag someone new — a scenario saved from yuckiness only by its utter contrived sterility. C-

Originally posted Jun 06, 2008 Published in issue #997 Jun 13, 2008 Order article reprints
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