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MOVIE OF THE WEEK April 23, 2021: TOGETHER TOGETHER

April 18, 2021April 23, 2021 Jennifer Merin betsy bozdech, Cate Marquis, ed helms, jennifer merin, leslie combemale, liz whittemore, loren king, Marilyn Ferdinand., marina antunes, motw, Movie of the Week, nell minow, Nikole Beckwith, Pam Grady, patti harrison, sandie angulo chen, sherin nicole, surrogate mother, susan wloszczyna, together together

The romantic comedy gets a power up in Nikole Beckwith’s effortlessly charming Together Together. Ed Helms is surprisingly lovable and charming as Matt, a single 40-something ready to take the next step in his life: fatherhood. Rather than keep searching for the perfect someone, he opts to go at it alone with the help of a surrogate. Enter Anna, Patti Harrison, a young woman looking to get her life back on tack and she sees surrogacy as a way to get there. What begins as a transactional relationship soon turns into a beautiful and all too real story of friendship and sacrifice. Beckwith’s script is smart and often drifts into too-close-for-comfort reality and its gorgeously brought to life by Helms and Harrison.

Reviews

TOGETHER TOGETHER – Review by Susan Wloszczyna

April 12, 2021April 18, 2021 Susan Wloszczyna ed helms, motw, Movie of the Week, Nikole Beckwith, Pam Grady, patti harrison, surrogate mother, together together

Think of Nikole Beckwith’s rather off-beat and charming maternity comedy Together Together as Knocked Up for the enlightened era of wokeness. Instead of two strangers whose drunken one-night stand ends in a pregnancy, we are presented with what is known as a gestational surrogate who agrees to carry a single 40-something man’s baby so that she can finally afford to attend college.