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Pop Culture Happy Hour

Babes gives us a funny (and gross) portrait of parenthood

Pop Culture Happy Hour

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4.510.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

The new movie Babes stars Ilana Glazer and Michelle Buteau as longtime best friends who've made very different life choices. It's also about the inherent joys, stressors, and grossness of parenthood, and what it means to embrace your chosen family. It's the feature directorial debut of Pamela Adlon (Better Things).

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Maintaining friendships as an adult is hard. We all know this and plenty of silly buddy comedies have reiterated it.

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And so we have the fun new movie, Babes. It stars Alana Glaser and Michelle Bueoe as longtime besties who've made very different life choices.

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When one of them gets pregnant after a one night stand, their bond is put to the test.

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But this is more than just a story of friends growing apart. It's also about the inherent

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joys, stressors, and grossness of parenthood and what it means to embrace your chosen family.

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I'm Asha Harris, and today we're talking about Babes on Pop culture happy hour from NPR.

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