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A Plumm Summer
Studio: Freestyle Releasing
Director: Caroline Zelder
Screenwriter: T.J. Lynch, Frank Antonelli, Caroline Zelder
Starring: William Baldwin, Henry Winkler, Lisa Guerrero, Brenda Strong, Jeff Daniels, Owen Pearce, Chris J. Kelly, Clint Howard, Richard Riehle
Genre: Adventure, Family
MPAA Rating: PG (for thematic elements and some mild rude language)
Official Website: APlummSummer.com
Plot Summary: Froggy Doo, the wisecracking marionette operated and voiced by Happy Herb, is loved by all the kids – all the kids except young Elliott Plumm. Elliott (13) has outgrown the show and no longer believes in Froggy Doo; in fact, he doesn't believe in much of anything anymore, least of all himself, which causes a considerable amount of tension between him and his five year-old brother Rocky, who believes in everything – especially Froggy Doo.
What's real for Elliott is the anxiety he feels at home. His father, Mick, an ex-boxer, treats his oldest son as though he’s invisible, and secretly blames the boy for his not going to the Olympics thirteen years ago. His mother, Roxie, loves him dearly, but is so busy trying to keep the bills paid, her husband sober, and her marriage together that she doesn’t have much time left for her firstborn son.
Initially, Elliott has no interest in the Frog-napping, but when an odd-looking trailer pulls onto the empty lot next door carrying young Haley (a new neighbor, junior sleuth, and Trixie Belden fan), everything changes. Soon, Elliott, Haley, and Rocky band together and embark on a mission to find Froggy Doo. And what starts out as a lark for Elliott becomes increasingly essential as the stakes for him rise dramatically: if he can crack the case before the FBI, he could win the heart of the girl he's falling for, bond with his little brother, give his mother the reward money, and maybe, just maybe… earn his father's love.
But the journey is never what we expect, and by the end of the road, everyone has learned a lot more than just who kidnapped Froggy Doo.
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Deal
Studio: MGM
Director: Gil Cates Jr.
Screenwriter: Gil Cates Jr., Mark Weinstock
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Charles Durning, Bret Harrison, Gary Grubbs, Shannon Elizabeth, Jennifer Tilly, Maria Mason
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for language, sexual content and brief drug use)
Official Website: Dealthemovie.com
Plot Summary: Set against the world of high stakes poker, "Deal" follows the story of Tommy Vinson, an ex-gambler who quit the game of Texas Hold'em over 30 years ago after missing a family emergency and swearing to his wife, Helen, "never again". Tommy tries to be content with his luggage business but while watching a poker tournament on television, he sees someone who reminds him of his younger self, Alex Stillman.
Alex is a cocky, hotshot card playing senior at Yale University. He is the best player there. Alex's parents would like him to go to law school, but Alex only dreams of playing professional poker, like the icons he sees on TV. After winning an on-line event that places him in the televised game, Alex loses early. He's close to greatness, but what he doesn't realize yet is that he focuses too much on the cards, and not the players… that's where Tommy comes in.
Tommy finds Alex and makes a pact with him: he'll front Alex the high priced entry fees to all the major tournaments if Alex plays the way that Tommy wants him to. Alex resists at first, but after seeing Tommy make some impressive calls while watching a poker game together, Alex changes his mind and they partner.
Alex's parents are sick about it, and Helen, Tommy's wife, is concerned that her husband will get sucked back into the game that took him away once before. Tommy promises Helen that this will not happen because he’s not the one playing, Alex is. But after Tommy and Alex have a falling out over a local Las Vegas call girl that Tommy arranged to meet Alex and whom Alex has developed feelings for, things change, and everything is off.
Tommy, who's now got the appetite back for the game and a hunger to be acknowledged as the best, enters the final tournament of the poker season and ends up facing Alex, his protege, in the finals of the World Poker Tour. And what happens there, even though only one will be declared champion, leaves them both winners.
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Deception
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Director: Marcel Langenegger
Screenwriter: Mark Bomback
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor, Michelle Williams, Maggie Q, Natasha Henstridge, Rachael Taylor
Genre: Action, Thriller
MPAA Rating: R (for sexual content, language, brief violence and some drug use)
Official Website: Deception-movie.com
Plot Summary: An accountant (McGregor) is introduced to a mysterious sex club known as The List by his lawyer friend (Jackman). But in this new world, he soon becomes the prime suspect in a woman's disappearance and a multi-million dollar heist.
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Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay
Studio: New Line Cinema
Director: Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg
Screenwriter: Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg
Starring: John Cho, Kal Penn, Rob Corddry, Roger Bart, Neil Patrick Harris
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
MPAA Rating: R (for strong crude and sexual content, graphic nudity, pervasive language and drug use)
Official Website: WhatWouldNPDDo.com
Plot Summary: "Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo" marks the triumphant return of these two hilarious, slacker anti-heroes. The movie stars John Cho as Harold and Kal Penn as Kumar, two stoners who can't seem to get a break. Their last adventure found them traveling across country to find a White Castle hamburger in order to satisfy a weed-induced case of "the munchies."
This time, the boys get themselves in trouble trying to sneak a bong onboard a flight to Amsterdam. Now, being suspected of terrorism, they are forced to run from the law and try to find a way to prove their innocence. What follows is an irreverent and epic journey of deep thoughts, deeper inhaling and a wild trip around the world that is as "un-PC" as it gets.
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Rogue
Studio: Third Rail Releasing (The Weinstein Company)
Director: Greg McLean
Screenwriter: Greg McLean
Starring: Radha Mitchell, Michael Vartan, John Jarratt, Heather Mitchell, Sam Worthington, Stephen Curry, Mia Wasikoska
Genre: Horror, Thriller
MPAA Rating: R (for language and some creature violence)
Official Website: Rogue-movie.com
Plot Summary: Greg McLean's first acclaimed tour de force, "Wolf Creek," took audiences on a frightening, fact based road trip through the darkest parts of Australian Outback and the depraved human mind. Journeying home again, this time to the crocodile infested waters of Australia's remote wetlands, the director's wildlife boat tour is more down-under "Jaws" than "Crocodile Dundee." Joining a beautiful local tour guide (Radha Mitchell) and an American writer on assignment (Michael Vartan), the rest of this thriller's food chain is composed of tourists and adventure seekers alike. Waiting in vain to be rescued on an ever-disappearing parcel of dry land, you will never guess their next move…as terror lies just beneath the surface.
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Roman de Gare
Studio: Samuel Goldwyn Films
Director: Claude Lelouch
Screenwriter: Claude Lelouch
Starring: Audrey Dana, Dominique Pinon, Fanny Ardant
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R (for brief language and sexual references)
Official Website: RomandeGarethefilm.com
Plot Summary: In the still of the night, three lives are about to cross: a woman abandoned (Audrey Dana, Cesar nominee for Best Female Newcomer) a stranger awaiting his chance (Dominique Pinon,) and a best-selling author (Fanny Ardant,) who imagines the thriller of the year. Deceptively layered and intriguingly misleading, in a game with high stakes – and deadly consequences.
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Standard Operating Procedure
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Director: Errol Morris
Screenwriter: Not Available
Starring: Christopher Bradley, Sarah Denning, Joshua Feinman, Jeff L. Green, Merry Grissom, Cyrus King, Daniel Novy, Zhubin Rahbar, Shaun Russell, Combiz Shams
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: R (for disturbing images and content involving torture and graphic nudity, and for language)
Official Website: StandardOperatingProceduremovie.com
Plot Summary: Is it possible for a photograph to change the world? Photographs taken by soldiers in Abu Ghraib prison changed the war in Iraq and changed America's image of itself. Yet, a central mystery remains. Did the notorious Abu Ghraib photographs constitute evidence of systematic abuse by the American military, or were they documenting the aberrant behavior of a few "bad apples"?
We set out to examine the context of these photographs. Why were they taken? What was happening outside the frame? We talked directly to the soldiers who took the photographs and who were in the photographs. Who are these people? What were they thinking? Over two years of investigation, we amassed a million and a half words of interview transcript, thousands of pages of unredacted reports, and hundreds of photographs. The story of Abu Ghraib is still shrouded in moral ambiguity, but it is clear what happened there.
The Abu Ghraib photographs serve as both an expose and a coverup. An expose, because the photographs offer us a glimpse of the horror of Abu Ghraib; and a coverup because they convinced journalists and readers they had seen everything, that there was no need to look further. In recent news reports, we have learned about the destruction of the Abu Zubaydah interrogation tapes. A coverup. It has been front page news. But the coverup at Abu Ghraib involved thousands of prisoners and hundreds of soldiers. We are still learning about the extent of it.
Many journalists have asked about "the smoking gun" of Abu Ghraib. It is the wrong question. As Philip Gourevitch has commented, Abu Ghraib is the smoking gun. The underlying question that we still have not resolved, four years after the scandal: how could American values become so compromised that Abu Ghraib-and the subsequent coverup-could happen?
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Then She Found Me
Studio: THINKFilm
Director: Helen Hunt
Screenwriter: Helen Hunt, Vic Levin, Alice Arlen
Starring: Helen Hunt, Bette Midler, Colin Firth, Matthew Broderick, Ben Shankman
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
MPAA Rating: R (for language and some sexual content)
Plot Summary: Adapted from Elinor Lipman's novel of the same name, Helen Hunt makes her feature directing debut with "Then She Found Me," a touching story of schoolteacher April Epner (Hunt) and her very unlikely path towards personal fulfillment. Following the separation from her husband (Matthew Broderick) and the death of her adopted mother, April is contacted by her apparent birth month (Bette Midler), who turns out to be a local talk show host Bernice Graves. As Bernice tries to become the mother to April that she was never able to be, April seems to find solace in the arms of the parent of one of her students (Colin Firth), only to find that the mystery to life's questions cannot be solved by a simple revelation.
Baby Mama
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Michael McCullers
Screenwriter: Michael McCullers
Starring: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Greg Kinnear, Dax Shepard, Romany Malco, Maura Tierney, Holland Taylor, Sigourney Weaver
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for crude and sexual humor, language and a drug reference)
Official Website: BabyMamamovie.net | BabyMamamaker.com
Plot Summary: In a comedy that brings together some of today's sharpest talent, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler team with writer/director Michael McCullers and producers Lorne Michaels and John Goldwyn to tell the story of two women, one apartment and the nine months that will change their lives: "Baby Mama."
Successful and single businesswoman Kate Holbrook (Tina Fey) has long put her career ahead of a personal life. Now 37, she's finally determined to have a kid on her own. But her plan is thrown a curve ball after she discovers she has only a million-to-one chance of getting pregnant. Undaunted, the driven Kate allows South Philly working girl Angie Ostrowiski (Amy Poehler) to become her unlikely surrogate. Simple enough...
After learning from the steely head (Sigourney Weaver) of their surrogacy center that Angie is pregnant, Kate goes into precision nesting mode: reading childcare books, baby-proofing the apartment and researching top pre-schools. But the executive's well-organized strategy is turned upside down when her Baby Mama shows up at her doorstep with no place to live.
An unstoppable force meets an immovable object as structured Kate tries to turn vibrant Angie into the perfect expectant mom. In a comic battle of wills, they will struggle their way through preparation for the baby's arrival. And in the middle of this tug-of-war, they'll discover two kinds of family: the one you're born to and the one you make.
A Plumm Summer
Studio: Freestyle Releasing
Director: Caroline Zelder
Screenwriter: T.J. Lynch, Frank Antonelli, Caroline Zelder
Starring: William Baldwin, Henry Winkler, Lisa Guerrero, Brenda Strong, Jeff Daniels, Owen Pearce, Chris J. Kelly, Clint Howard, Richard Riehle
Genre: Adventure, Family
MPAA Rating: PG (for thematic elements and some mild rude language)
Official Website: APlummSummer.com
Plot Summary: Froggy Doo, the wisecracking marionette operated and voiced by Happy Herb, is loved by all the kids – all the kids except young Elliott Plumm. Elliott (13) has outgrown the show and no longer believes in Froggy Doo; in fact, he doesn't believe in much of anything anymore, least of all himself, which causes a considerable amount of tension between him and his five year-old brother Rocky, who believes in everything – especially Froggy Doo.
What's real for Elliott is the anxiety he feels at home. His father, Mick, an ex-boxer, treats his oldest son as though he’s invisible, and secretly blames the boy for his not going to the Olympics thirteen years ago. His mother, Roxie, loves him dearly, but is so busy trying to keep the bills paid, her husband sober, and her marriage together that she doesn’t have much time left for her firstborn son.
Initially, Elliott has no interest in the Frog-napping, but when an odd-looking trailer pulls onto the empty lot next door carrying young Haley (a new neighbor, junior sleuth, and Trixie Belden fan), everything changes. Soon, Elliott, Haley, and Rocky band together and embark on a mission to find Froggy Doo. And what starts out as a lark for Elliott becomes increasingly essential as the stakes for him rise dramatically: if he can crack the case before the FBI, he could win the heart of the girl he's falling for, bond with his little brother, give his mother the reward money, and maybe, just maybe… earn his father's love.
But the journey is never what we expect, and by the end of the road, everyone has learned a lot more than just who kidnapped Froggy Doo.
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Deal
Studio: MGM
Director: Gil Cates Jr.
Screenwriter: Gil Cates Jr., Mark Weinstock
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Charles Durning, Bret Harrison, Gary Grubbs, Shannon Elizabeth, Jennifer Tilly, Maria Mason
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for language, sexual content and brief drug use)
Official Website: Dealthemovie.com
Plot Summary: Set against the world of high stakes poker, "Deal" follows the story of Tommy Vinson, an ex-gambler who quit the game of Texas Hold'em over 30 years ago after missing a family emergency and swearing to his wife, Helen, "never again". Tommy tries to be content with his luggage business but while watching a poker tournament on television, he sees someone who reminds him of his younger self, Alex Stillman.
Alex is a cocky, hotshot card playing senior at Yale University. He is the best player there. Alex's parents would like him to go to law school, but Alex only dreams of playing professional poker, like the icons he sees on TV. After winning an on-line event that places him in the televised game, Alex loses early. He's close to greatness, but what he doesn't realize yet is that he focuses too much on the cards, and not the players… that's where Tommy comes in.
Tommy finds Alex and makes a pact with him: he'll front Alex the high priced entry fees to all the major tournaments if Alex plays the way that Tommy wants him to. Alex resists at first, but after seeing Tommy make some impressive calls while watching a poker game together, Alex changes his mind and they partner.
Alex's parents are sick about it, and Helen, Tommy's wife, is concerned that her husband will get sucked back into the game that took him away once before. Tommy promises Helen that this will not happen because he’s not the one playing, Alex is. But after Tommy and Alex have a falling out over a local Las Vegas call girl that Tommy arranged to meet Alex and whom Alex has developed feelings for, things change, and everything is off.
Tommy, who's now got the appetite back for the game and a hunger to be acknowledged as the best, enters the final tournament of the poker season and ends up facing Alex, his protege, in the finals of the World Poker Tour. And what happens there, even though only one will be declared champion, leaves them both winners.
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Deception
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Director: Marcel Langenegger
Screenwriter: Mark Bomback
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor, Michelle Williams, Maggie Q, Natasha Henstridge, Rachael Taylor
Genre: Action, Thriller
MPAA Rating: R (for sexual content, language, brief violence and some drug use)
Official Website: Deception-movie.com
Plot Summary: An accountant (McGregor) is introduced to a mysterious sex club known as The List by his lawyer friend (Jackman). But in this new world, he soon becomes the prime suspect in a woman's disappearance and a multi-million dollar heist.
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Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay
Studio: New Line Cinema
Director: Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg
Screenwriter: Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg
Starring: John Cho, Kal Penn, Rob Corddry, Roger Bart, Neil Patrick Harris
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
MPAA Rating: R (for strong crude and sexual content, graphic nudity, pervasive language and drug use)
Official Website: WhatWouldNPDDo.com
Plot Summary: "Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo" marks the triumphant return of these two hilarious, slacker anti-heroes. The movie stars John Cho as Harold and Kal Penn as Kumar, two stoners who can't seem to get a break. Their last adventure found them traveling across country to find a White Castle hamburger in order to satisfy a weed-induced case of "the munchies."
This time, the boys get themselves in trouble trying to sneak a bong onboard a flight to Amsterdam. Now, being suspected of terrorism, they are forced to run from the law and try to find a way to prove their innocence. What follows is an irreverent and epic journey of deep thoughts, deeper inhaling and a wild trip around the world that is as "un-PC" as it gets.
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Rogue
Studio: Third Rail Releasing (The Weinstein Company)
Director: Greg McLean
Screenwriter: Greg McLean
Starring: Radha Mitchell, Michael Vartan, John Jarratt, Heather Mitchell, Sam Worthington, Stephen Curry, Mia Wasikoska
Genre: Horror, Thriller
MPAA Rating: R (for language and some creature violence)
Official Website: Rogue-movie.com
Plot Summary: Greg McLean's first acclaimed tour de force, "Wolf Creek," took audiences on a frightening, fact based road trip through the darkest parts of Australian Outback and the depraved human mind. Journeying home again, this time to the crocodile infested waters of Australia's remote wetlands, the director's wildlife boat tour is more down-under "Jaws" than "Crocodile Dundee." Joining a beautiful local tour guide (Radha Mitchell) and an American writer on assignment (Michael Vartan), the rest of this thriller's food chain is composed of tourists and adventure seekers alike. Waiting in vain to be rescued on an ever-disappearing parcel of dry land, you will never guess their next move…as terror lies just beneath the surface.
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Roman de Gare
Studio: Samuel Goldwyn Films
Director: Claude Lelouch
Screenwriter: Claude Lelouch
Starring: Audrey Dana, Dominique Pinon, Fanny Ardant
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R (for brief language and sexual references)
Official Website: RomandeGarethefilm.com
Plot Summary: In the still of the night, three lives are about to cross: a woman abandoned (Audrey Dana, Cesar nominee for Best Female Newcomer) a stranger awaiting his chance (Dominique Pinon,) and a best-selling author (Fanny Ardant,) who imagines the thriller of the year. Deceptively layered and intriguingly misleading, in a game with high stakes – and deadly consequences.
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Standard Operating Procedure
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Director: Errol Morris
Screenwriter: Not Available
Starring: Christopher Bradley, Sarah Denning, Joshua Feinman, Jeff L. Green, Merry Grissom, Cyrus King, Daniel Novy, Zhubin Rahbar, Shaun Russell, Combiz Shams
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: R (for disturbing images and content involving torture and graphic nudity, and for language)
Official Website: StandardOperatingProceduremovie.com
Plot Summary: Is it possible for a photograph to change the world? Photographs taken by soldiers in Abu Ghraib prison changed the war in Iraq and changed America's image of itself. Yet, a central mystery remains. Did the notorious Abu Ghraib photographs constitute evidence of systematic abuse by the American military, or were they documenting the aberrant behavior of a few "bad apples"?
We set out to examine the context of these photographs. Why were they taken? What was happening outside the frame? We talked directly to the soldiers who took the photographs and who were in the photographs. Who are these people? What were they thinking? Over two years of investigation, we amassed a million and a half words of interview transcript, thousands of pages of unredacted reports, and hundreds of photographs. The story of Abu Ghraib is still shrouded in moral ambiguity, but it is clear what happened there.
The Abu Ghraib photographs serve as both an expose and a coverup. An expose, because the photographs offer us a glimpse of the horror of Abu Ghraib; and a coverup because they convinced journalists and readers they had seen everything, that there was no need to look further. In recent news reports, we have learned about the destruction of the Abu Zubaydah interrogation tapes. A coverup. It has been front page news. But the coverup at Abu Ghraib involved thousands of prisoners and hundreds of soldiers. We are still learning about the extent of it.
Many journalists have asked about "the smoking gun" of Abu Ghraib. It is the wrong question. As Philip Gourevitch has commented, Abu Ghraib is the smoking gun. The underlying question that we still have not resolved, four years after the scandal: how could American values become so compromised that Abu Ghraib-and the subsequent coverup-could happen?
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Then She Found Me
Studio: THINKFilm
Director: Helen Hunt
Screenwriter: Helen Hunt, Vic Levin, Alice Arlen
Starring: Helen Hunt, Bette Midler, Colin Firth, Matthew Broderick, Ben Shankman
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
MPAA Rating: R (for language and some sexual content)
Plot Summary: Adapted from Elinor Lipman's novel of the same name, Helen Hunt makes her feature directing debut with "Then She Found Me," a touching story of schoolteacher April Epner (Hunt) and her very unlikely path towards personal fulfillment. Following the separation from her husband (Matthew Broderick) and the death of her adopted mother, April is contacted by her apparent birth month (Bette Midler), who turns out to be a local talk show host Bernice Graves. As Bernice tries to become the mother to April that she was never able to be, April seems to find solace in the arms of the parent of one of her students (Colin Firth), only to find that the mystery to life's questions cannot be solved by a simple revelation.
Baby Mama
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Michael McCullers
Screenwriter: Michael McCullers
Starring: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Greg Kinnear, Dax Shepard, Romany Malco, Maura Tierney, Holland Taylor, Sigourney Weaver
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for crude and sexual humor, language and a drug reference)
Official Website: BabyMamamovie.net | BabyMamamaker.com
Plot Summary: In a comedy that brings together some of today's sharpest talent, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler team with writer/director Michael McCullers and producers Lorne Michaels and John Goldwyn to tell the story of two women, one apartment and the nine months that will change their lives: "Baby Mama."
Successful and single businesswoman Kate Holbrook (Tina Fey) has long put her career ahead of a personal life. Now 37, she's finally determined to have a kid on her own. But her plan is thrown a curve ball after she discovers she has only a million-to-one chance of getting pregnant. Undaunted, the driven Kate allows South Philly working girl Angie Ostrowiski (Amy Poehler) to become her unlikely surrogate. Simple enough...
After learning from the steely head (Sigourney Weaver) of their surrogacy center that Angie is pregnant, Kate goes into precision nesting mode: reading childcare books, baby-proofing the apartment and researching top pre-schools. But the executive's well-organized strategy is turned upside down when her Baby Mama shows up at her doorstep with no place to live.
An unstoppable force meets an immovable object as structured Kate tries to turn vibrant Angie into the perfect expectant mom. In a comic battle of wills, they will struggle their way through preparation for the baby's arrival. And in the middle of this tug-of-war, they'll discover two kinds of family: the one you're born to and the one you make.