| 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.
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.
Married couple Henderson and Vowell made the semi-autobiographical film out of their own fear of growing old and settling down.
The film premiered in Australia and New Zealand on 22 October 2020. It was later released in the UK and Ireland on 22 January 2021.
The Guardian praised "Matafeo’s wonderful, compulsively affable performance is core to the film’s irresistible good naturedness: its spirit, pluck, bounce." 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."