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Continuing our series of writers highlighting underappreciated films: a bittersweet comedy drama about infertilityHollywood’s depiction of infertility over the years has been, well, let’s say sporadic.

When it does make it on to the screen, it’s usually played for laughs.

Whether it’s adoption in Juno, surrogacy in Baby Mama or infertility in Raising Arizona, when it comes to women’s wombs, film execs have decided they need to throw in a good chuckle to make the subject more palatable.

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