Labor of Love

Labor of Love

8.0IMDb Score
Released:1998-05-04
Duration:96 min
Director:Karen Arthur
Actors:Marcia Gay Harden, David Marshall Grant, Rod Wilson, Heidi von Palleske, Alison Sealy-Smith
Production:Ken Raskoff Productions, ABC Pictures

Overview:

Annie, a 36-year-old, single woman, desperately wants to have a child. Her best friend, Mickey, a gay man who had tried unsuccessfully to adopt a child, also feels the pangs of parental yearning. The couple decides to have a naturally conceived child together. Mickey moves in with Annie, but she then meets Gordon, the man of her dreams with whom she has a passionate fling. Annie finds herself pregnant and not exactly sure which of the two men in her life is the father. But commitment-shy Gordon wants nothing to do with the child. Mickey eventually assures Annie that no matter what, he will help raise the child as his, together as a family with Annie.

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