Movie Synopsis from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette:
Bette plays irrepressible Bernice, the popular Oprah-esque local TV show host, who has finally decided to showcase her own case on her own show. But April is not pleased. She'd rather this mother-and-child reunion stay more than a motion picture away. But Bernice won't be denied instant intimacy from the moment they meet:
Bernice: "Tell me something about yourself!"
April: "Um, I like Fleetwood Mac."
Bernice: "I'm very verbal during sex."
April: "I'm afraid of drowning."
Bernice: "During sex?"
April is very cranky. She has enough trust issues already. "You're sitting on anger," says Bernice. April demands to know who her real father was. Bernice confides the shocking secret: he was Steve McQueen.
April rushes out and rents "The Getaway," examining McQueen's every pore, until informed that Steve was making "Sand Pebbles" in China when April was conceived.
April gets crankier. Birth-mom from hell is a liar. "It will not happen again," Bernice swears. But it does. So does Bernice's insinuation into April's life, the mother stealing quick side glances to gauge her melodramatic blarney's impact on the daughter.
The serio to balance the comic is supplied by charming Englishman Frank (Colin Firth), a single dad whose son is in April's class. Frank -- also recently dumped and currently disillusioned -- is as unripe for romance as April, which means, of course, there will be one. But it will be complicated when April finds out she's pregnant as a result of having "break-up sex" with Ben. Both Frank and Ben show up at the doctor's office for April's first sonogram. And who do you think plays the gynecologist?
Dr. Salmon Rushdie, at your cervix!
He's good, too. No Satanic verses or nurses in his scenes. Who knew he could act?
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