
An inner-city high school teacher discovers she is pregnant at the same time as one of her most promising students and the two develop an unlikely friendship while struggling to navigate their unexpected pregnancies.... (Full plot summary below)
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An inner-city high school teacher discovers she is pregnant at the same time as one of her most promising students and the two develop an unlikely friendship while struggling to navigate their unexpected pregnancies.
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| CraveOnlineFred TopelIt shows you can find humor in supportive relationships and maturity in the handling of complications, even when they fall specifically at the act three mark. |
| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfThe movie isn't heavy or unapproachable. It's just authentic, wonderfully so at times, seizing the complexity of life through potent dramatics and deeply felt performances. |
| Mark Reviews MoviesMark DujsikThis is an intelligent film that speaks volumes about its characters, and it does so with sensitivity to the specifics of their individual experiences. |
| The L MagazineAbbey BenderUnexpected deserves credit for featuring a relationship between two women that is not often shown. At the same time, though, that relationship, fraught with race and class tension as it is, never really challenges us in a believable way. |
| RogerEbert.comChristy LemireSwanberg finds a pleasingly low-key tone throughout the film, which (blissfully) is especially true during the kinds of moments that usually are played for wacky laughs in pregnancy comedies. |
| Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneySwanberg and her co-writer Megan Mercier do an assured job of coaxing the minor-key humor and conflict gently from the naturalistic situations. |
| Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenA modestly scaled feature whose plainspoken sincerity is a hindrance as well as a strength. |
| Punch Drunk CriticsMae AbdulbakiThe script is honest, mature, and genuinely touching in many ways. The performances by the lead cast are sincere and filled with heart. |
| FILMINK (Australia)Travis JohnsonPainfully earnest, Unexpected dances around some interesting issues - race, class, poverty, bodily autonomy - without ever grappling with them in any meaningful or dramatic way. |
| OregonianMarc MohanThis tale of maternal bonding benefits from believable performances and a recognizably human setting. |