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6/10
to have a kid, or to not have a kid
ksf-215 March 2022
From australia. Hanging out with her gang of friends, christine (veronica neave) realizes she's getting older, and wants to get pregnant. Or does she? Her boyfriend wants no part of it, so there must be other solutions. Its mostly fun. Slow, low key, dry humor. About an hour in, the film just screeches to a halt as she walk around town, feeling sorry for herself. While songs play in the background. At the end, it gets confusing, and then ends very abruptly. The ending of the script needed a tune-up. We spent so much time setting the scene, then it just ends. It's just okay. Directed by jennifer ussi. According to the opening credits, based on an idea by jen ussi and miki oikawa. Screenplay by ussi and adam couper.
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what a shame -- and a sham
Tokimo29 July 2011
Warning: Spoilers
At first, it looks refreshing to see real-looking people in a mature relationship comedy. Then it gets progressively lame and poorly written. Yeah, it's about a middle-aged woman suddenly wanting to have a baby... but what could have been an insightful engaging exploration of mature issues with grown up people devolves into a shockingly stupid story with not plausibility or rooting interest.

By the time the lead actress and her girlfriends decided it would be a good idea to use a syringe to extract seamen out of the testicles of the corpse of the ONLY man in Australia (who suddenly dies for 'comic' reasons) she thinks is worthy of impregnating her, my wife and I could not turn it off fast enough. Who makes this crap and why?
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Great little comedy!!
lizziesmith171218 November 2011
I LOVED the movie! It's funny, unusual and, just when you think it's going the way it should go, it doesn't! Great to see a movie about real women, and real women problems. I can imagine that men under 40 wouldn't get this movie at all, or anyone who is quite religious – so beware! The lead characters are menopausal best friends who have completely different lifestyles & wants. From the start the characters are set: Christine (Veronica Neave) the world wandering happy to be single successful photographer – whose biological clock is about to go off with a bang! The free-spirited Margo (Queenie van de Zandt) happily married to Keith (Jamie Dunn - hugely funny) with two kids, but would love to be an empty nester & Mikki (Catarina Hebbard) terrified of the fast approaching onslaught of everything that comes with being middle-aged with her partner Tom (Adam Couper, also co-writer) continually trying to convince her she is perfect just the way she is. Performances by the three central women are all outstanding.

What is soon to become Christine's very amusingly obsession with falling pregnant is supported at the most important & unfortunate of times by her friends when she needs them most. The pitch line for the movie "If you thought puberty was hard wait till you hit 40" certainly rings true! But for a laugh, and for some tears, and for a movie that is one of the funniest - I laughed so hard my sides hurt - Girl Clock is the best independent film I have seen all year.
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