Synopsis
Kassie is a smart, fun-loving single woman who, despite her neurotic best friend Wally’s objections, decides it’s time to have a baby – even if it means doing it herself… with a little help from a charming sperm donor. But, unbeknownst to her, Kassie’s plans go awry because of a last-minute switch that isn’t discovered until seven years later… when Wally gets acquainted with Kassie’s cute, though slightly neurotic, son.
Your Movie Library
Cast
- Jennifer AnistonKassie Larson
- Jason BatemanWally Mars
- Patrick WilsonRoland
- Thomas RobinsonSebastian
- Jeff GoldblumLeonard
- Juliette LewisDebbie
- Victor PaganKnit Hat Guy
- Todd LouisoArtie
- Scott ElrodDeclan
- Kelli BarrettRoland's Wife Jessica
Recommendations
- 75
Orlando Sentinel
Aniston's work opposite the screen's premiere mild-mannered funnyman shows her at her most engaged and pitch perfect. - 70
Boxoffice Magazine
It's funny, clever, touching and real. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Despite a virtually unplayable premise, The Switch overcomes this handicap to turn itself into a friendly, offbeat romantic comedy. - 63
ReelViews
It would be nice to argue that the good outweighs the bad in The Switch, but it's a wash. - 63
Chicago Tribune
Around the halfway point it starts getting interesting and the people who put it together are at least working in a realm of reasonable intelligence and wit and respect for the audience. - 60
Village Voice
Saddled with the responsibility of carrying the film, Bateman acquits himself admirably by playing it straight, developing a genuinely convincing and affecting chemistry with Robinson and taking his character's repression seriously. - 50
Rolling Stone
It's subpar sitcom. - 40
Variety
An unfunny, manipulative romance about two unlikable people and their prop of a son, the pic mangles the premise of its source material ("Baster," a 1996 short story by Pulitzer-winning novelist Jeffrey Eugenides) in ways that ought to baffle viewers of all sociopolitical stripes.
