The Switch (2010 film)

The Switch is an American comedy film directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck from the year 2010. It is based on the short story Baster by Jeffrey Eugenides.

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The professionally successful Kassie is 40, single and decides to try to become pregnant. Your plan she reveals her best friend Wally, a neurotic, pessimistic hypochondriac. Wally shows little enthusiasm, especially since Kassie rejects him as a sperm donor, because they do not want any neurotic children. She rejects it from going to a sperm bank, yet will select the sperm donors personally and get to know. This leads to resentment between Wally and Kassie, and both decide to take a Freundschaftsauszeit.

A little later, Kassie, Wally finds invitation to an " insemination party " - Kassie has a suitable sperm donor found. It is the married university lecturer Roland. As an avid sportsman and blond optimist he is the exact opposite of Wally, who promptly gets drunk at Kassie's party. It is planned that Kassie is pregnant by Roland seeds directly on the celebration by cannula. Wally flushed into Kassie's bathroom accidentally Roland's semen in the sink down and replaced it with his. The next day he wakes up hungover and can not remember anything more. A little later he tells Kassie to finally be pregnant. She pulls from New York off to let her child grow up in the family circle with their parents.

Seven years later, the contact between Wally and Kassie is almost canceled. She got a son, and she named Sebastian. He is now almost six years old and Kassie now resumes a job in New York and draws back to the big city. Although she wants to see again Wally, but above all to build the contact with " child father " Roland. The lives now divorced from his wife.

Wally meets for the first time on Sebastian, who is a neurotic and closed, but intelligent boy, the photo frame collects and compiles from the prefabricated frame photos of your own extended family. Wally is building a relationship with him and soon notices that the boy is like him in nature. Only the conversation with his best friend Leonard, the Wally had visited drunk Kassie party seven years ago, brings the realization that Sebastian is his son for him. He wants to tell Kassie the truth, but just builds a relationship with Roland on the Sebastian hates. Only when Roland Kassie wants to make a marriage proposal, Wally confesses to her his paternity and confesses his love. She slaps him and forbids him any contact with her ​​and Sebastian.

Some time later, she waits outside his office. She left Roland, because he like Wally was not. It allows Wally contact with Sebastian and finally accepts his marriage proposal with a " likely " to. Later Sebastian celebrates his eighth birthday. Wally and Kassie got married and Sebastian now uses the photo frame to fill them with pictures of his own family.

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Production

The film was shot from March to October 2009, including in New York City. The cost of the film amounted to approximately 19 million U.S. dollars, he played a world nearly 50 million U.S. dollars.

In the U.S., Awkward was in love at 20 August 2010. In Germany it was released in theaters on November 11, 2010.

Criticism

Cinema called The Switch as " quite endearing comedy about the trials and tribulations of childbirth. The duo of directors Will Speck and Josh Gordon combines verbal wit, slapstick and serious feelings to a carefree, if not overly original romance. [ ... ] Conclusion: Solid Jennifer Aniston comedy with serious undertones. "

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