Review of Girl Clock! (2010) by Roberta K — 28 Apr 2012

My mother picked this one out from every DVD available for rental - funny since she's been on my case about babies forever.

Funnily enough, the storyline is about a woman in her 40's who has left it late to have children and now finds herself desperate for a baby. I agreed to watch it with much cringing and eye rolling.

This is an Australian film with a pretty much no name cast. I had never heard of it, or any one starring in it. It appears to be low budget and pretty cheaply made.

However, I gave it three stars as the three leading women are good and it does move fairly quickly and is entertaining if you can forgive the icky storyline.

There are some stereotypes in here that do no favors to any women. The lonely old dog lady particularly annoyed the crap out of me. The desperate 40 year old is also pretty grating - prepared to get knocked up by anyone at all with not even a thought for STD's etc. hmm. Responsible.

There's some really gross and morally questionable things here, but it is a comedy, and it is fairly amusing in places.

I am surprised I could be as forgiving of the subject matter as I was, but I couldn't take it too seriously.