Ed Helms and Patti Harrison in 'Together Together'
Prolonged labor, short delivery.
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4/23/2021
Ed Helms stars as a single man in his 40s who hires a young gestational surrogate, played by Patti Harrison, to fulfill his urge for fatherhood in Nikole Beckwith's comedy about mutable connections.
One of the standout debuts of 2020 was Jeremy Hersh's
The Surrogate, a superbly acted ethical drama that digs deep into complex interpersonal, psychological, moral and legal questions arising from a third-party reproduction arrangement that takes unforeseen turns. Close friendship added further complications to the childbirth pact in that case, whereas in Nikole Beckwith's
Together Together, the pregnancy agreement is purely transactional. The featherweight comedy is also far more generic, nudging around the shifting boundaries between Ed Helms' father-to-be and Patti Harrison's paid surrogate without ever really raising the emotional stakes.