Successful New York journalist and single mom Julie Davidson's (Vanessa Williams) six-year old son Jake (Jeremy Gumbs) is acting up, so she finds his sperm-donor father Paul Cooper (Kevin Daniels), who's a struggling actor and law-school drop-out.
Eartha Kitt stands out in this otherwise uneventful romantic comedy.
– Stephen Holden,
New York Times,
15 Jun 2007
rotten:
[A] flat, post-feminist cocktail of remixed cliches.
– Ronnie Scheib,
Variety,
23 Jun 2007
rotten:
An earnest cast of talented actors can't save this well-meaning but torturously banal message movie about parental responsibility from poor writing, elementary plotting and pedestrian direction.