| Baby Done | |
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| Directed by | Curtis Vowell |
| Written by | Sophie Henderson |
| Produced by | Morgan Waru |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Ian McCarroll |
| Edited by | Richard Shaw |
| Music by | Amine Ramer |
| Distributed by | Madman Entertainment & Piki Films |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | New Zealand |
| Language | English |
Baby Done is a 2020 New Zealand comedy film directed by Curtis Vowell, and executive produced by Taika Waititi, written by Sophie Henderson, and starring Rose Matafeo and Matthew Lewis. [1]
Zoe is a young woman who discovers she's pregnant. But, acting in denial, she tries to live a wild single life before the baby arrives. Her boyfriend, Tim, has the opposite reaction to the baby news and goes into nesting mode. [2]
Married couple Henderson and Vowell made the semi-autobiographical film out of their own fear of growing old and settling down. [3]
The film premiered in Australia and New Zealand on 22 October 2020. [4] It was later released in the UK and Ireland on 22 January 2021. [5]
The Guardian praised "Matafeo’s wonderful, compulsively affable performance is core to the film’s irresistible good naturedness: its spirit, pluck, bounce." [6] On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 92% based on 39 reviews, with an average rating of 6.9/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "A lightly humorous look at impending parenthood, Baby Done finds laughs -- and moments of genuine honesty -- in a life-altering event." [7]