Cert 15
99 mins
BBFC advice: Contains strong language, violence, sex, sex references, nudity
If you are going to watch Nasty Baby please don't make the same mistake as me and read the summary on internet movie data base.
Usually, imdb is nicely circumspect but in this case it gives the whole game away in one sentence.
This meant that I spent most of Sebastian Silva's movie waiting for the key moment.
And I waited and waited and waited. It was if everything else was padding until the final ten minutes.
Almost certainly, I would have had much more emotional involvement in the movie if I had not have read imdb and it is possible I would have rated it a couple of marks higher.
However, there are elements to the film which I found irksome, notably its strange persecution of a man with obvious mental illness (Reg. E Cathey).
Cathey plays a character called The Bishop who is loudly condemnatory of a gay couple (De Silva and Tunde Adebimpe) who are trying for a child with their friend (Kristen Wiig).
However, the road to pregnancy is not straightforward, prompting tensions among three usually easygoing folk.
Nasty Baby is one of those movies which lacks focus. If it has a moral message I was struggling to see it and I couldn't work out whether it was trying to be funny at times or was just a clearcut drama.
Wiig is a fine straight actress as well as comedienne and her interjections brought a meandering movie into line until THAT moment which would have probably had a shock effect had I not known it was coming.
Reasons to watch: unusual but engaging storyline
Reasons to avoid: takes far too long to reach a crescendo
Laughs: none
Jumps: none
Vomit: none
Nudity: very briefly on a TV screen
Overall rating: 5/10
Star tweet
Watched Nasty Baby. It was infuriating. Everyone is godawful and only gets more horrible as the movie progresses. I recommend it.
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