‘Babes’ trailer: Ilana Glazer is having a baby in Pamela Adlon-directed comedy [Watch]
What if Ilana from “Broad City” was pregnant?
If you want to find out, watch the trailer for “Babes,” which Neon released on Thursday.
In the comedy film, which Ilana Glazer wrote with Josh Rabinowitz, the “Broad City” alum plays Eden, a proudly single, thirtysomething New Yorker who gets pregnant from a one-night stand and decides to keep the baby. She relies on her best friend Dawn (Michelle Buteau), a married mother of two, for help. It’s going to be a very challenging process, and not even Dawn is sure Eden will be able to pull it off. The humor seems like a more grown-up version of the chaotic whimsy Glazer brought to “Broad City,” her beloved Comedy Central sitcom.
“Babes” is directed by “Better Things” creator Pamela Adlon in her feature directorial debut. The cast also includes Hasan Minhaj, John Carroll Lynch, Stephan James, Oliver Platt, the Lucas brothers, and Sandra Bernhard.
The film premiered in March at South by Southwest, where it earned positive reviews from critics. It currently has a 100% score on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. “Even more than the gloriously gross-out stuff, designed for big laughs and OMG body-horror reactions, it’s the blunt, unfiltered way they treat the ties that bind these two women that sticks with you,” Rolling Stone’s David Fear wrote in his review of the film from SXSW.
It’s Glazer’s second film about pregnancy, following the 2021 horror movie “False Positive.”
“Babes” opens in theaters on May 17.
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