Zoe is a woman who has a hard time letting anyone into her life. She has a habit of pushing people away whenever they get close. She wants to have a baby but because she has no man in her life she decides to be artificially inseminated. Shortly after having the procedure she meets a guy named Stan and she feels a spark. When she tells him about her pregnancy she thinks hell bail but he sticks with her.
Review
In New York the former executive and presently owner of a pet shop Zoe (Jennifer Lopez) has no boyfriend and only a couple of friends since she has difficulties to let people into her life. She lost her parents when she was a child and her only relative alive is her grandmother that lives in a nursing home and Zoe feeling lonely. She decides on artificial insemination to have a baby and to join a supporting group of single mothers. When she leaves the clinic very happy with the successful procedure she meets the cheese manufacturer and college student Stan (Alex O'Loughlin) and they immediately feel attracted for each other. They date and Zoe believes she has found the prince charming and changes her expectation with the insemination. However the doctor finds that she is pregnant and now she has the dilemmatic situation how to tell Stan that she is pregnant.
"The Backup Plan" was supposed to be a romantic comedy unfortunately it is a cheesy unfunny and nonromantic comedy. The idea of ⋺lling in love" "getting married" and "having a baby" not necessarily in this order" could have worked with a better screenplay. However the situations and characters are too stupid to work. Zoe is described as a former successful executive but her character seems to be a housewife fan of melodramatic soapoperas. Stan is a guy trying to reach an objective in life through the study at night and Zoë's character has nothing positive to keep a steady relationship out of time. His decision of staying with an unstable woman pregnant of twins is absolutely unreasonable and never funny. The writer seems to be alienated from the concept and reality of raising a family. My vote is three.
Title (Brazil) "Plano B" ("Plan B")