BABY MAMA **

Writer and first time director Michael McCullers helms this comedy starring: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Greg Kinnear, Dax Shepard, and Sigourney Weaver. Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, language and a drug reference the film is one hour and 35 minutes long.

Fey is a successful and single businesswoman who has long put her career ahead of a personal life. Now 37, she's finally determined to have a kid on her own but discovers she has only a million-to-one chance of getting pregnant. Undaunted, she allows a South Philly working girl (Poehler) to become her unlikely surrogate with the assistance of Weaver. While Poehler tries to work out her relationship with her common-law husband, Shepard, Fey starts a romance with Kinnear.

The chemistry between the characters is good as are the production values. But for me, this story dragged on too slowly until the very end when the resolution seemed abrupt. Steve Martin is also in the film but in a completely unessential part that should have been cut. Women will probably enjoy this much more than men but both will be best served by waiting for the DVD.