A little pregnant

Ben Stone is a 23-year-old loafer who lives with friends and only deals with smoking marijuana and trying to create a website containing information about films in which famous artists were without clothes. Allison Scott is a young woman working on television and obsessed with her career. One day, she was promoted to a reporter interviewing celebrities. Deciding to celebrate this joyful event, she and her sister Debi went to a nightclub , where she met Ben. Allison spent the night with him, but quickly realized that there was little in common between them.

After 8 weeks, Alison discovered that she was pregnant , and contacted Ben. He said that he would support Allison in everything, and they decided that they should try to establish a relationship. Although at first everything went fine, and Ben even made her an offer, the tension in their relationship gradually increased. Alison is increasingly beginning to “ saw ” Ben for his irresponsibility and his lifestyle.

It comes to the fact that Allison kicks the father of the child out of the house. Ben, along with Pete, husband of Deby (Allison's sister), goes to Las Vegas , where he spends time with him in a strip bar and in a circus. During the trip, Ben realizes that he needs to change. Arriving home with friends, he finds work and an apartment, one room in which Ben has converted into a nursery.

When Allison comes to give birth, she discovers that her doctor has left town. Then she calls Ben and asks him to come to her. He takes her to the hospital. After the birth of a daughter, Allison and Ben reconciled and began to live together.

• Michael Georgiou - Ben Stone
• Lyudmila Shuvalova - Alison Scott
• Ilya Khvostikov - Pete
• Olga Sirina - Debi
• Yuri Brezhnev - Jason
• Prokhor Chekhovskaya - Jay
• Alexander Gavrilin - Martin
• Olga Zubkova - Mom Alison
• Alexander Novikov - Papa Ben

• In the United States, the film was released on HD DVD and DVD on September 25, 2007 in an expanded, uncensored publication.
• In Russia, a DVD movie was released on August 14, 2007, and was released by Universal Pictures Rus .

Reviews

• The site Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a rating of 91%: 161 critics out of 176 wrote a laudatory review. The film took fourth place in the overall ranking of Rotten Tomatoes for the first half of 2007 ^[4] .
• On the IMDb website, the film received a rating of 8.1 (a total of 27,585 people voted) ^[5] .

Box office fees

• In the USA, the film raised $ 145,780,445 at the box office, and the budget paid off in the first week of the rental, when the film raised $ 30,690,990 ^[1] .
• In Russia, the film in the first week of rental collected $ 1,755,763 ^[6] .

• It was originally planned that the role of Alison Scott would be played by Anne Hathaway , but she left the project due to creative differences ^[7] . In an interview, Apatow wrote about the reasons for her refusal to shoot:

Hathaway refused to act due to the fact that she could not allow us to use the real shots of women giving birth to create the illusion of her birth ^[8] .

Original text

Hathaway dropped out of the film because she didn't want to allow us to use real footage of a woman giving birth to create the illusion that she is giving birth.

• Ben's four friends ( Seth Rogen ) have their real names in the film: Martin is played by Martin Starr , John by John Hill , Jason by Jason Siegel , Jay by Jay Barushel .
• Most of the actors involved in the film used to take part in other projects of Judd Apatow:
  • Seth Rogen , Martin Starr , Jason Siegel and James Franco in 1999 starred in the television series " Freaks and nuts ."
  • Seth Rogen , Jason Siegel and Jay Barushel in 2001 played together in the series Undecided .
  • Jonah Hill , Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd starred in the comedy "The 40-Year-Old Virgin ."
• According to the original plan, this project was to be a direct continuation of the film “ 40-year-old virgin ”.

• Official movie website
• “Slightly Pregnant” on the Internet Movie Database
• “A little pregnant” on the Rotten Tomatoes website
• Knocked Up at the Movie Wiki (Russian)