Amongst the arrival of the fresh, break-out voices at Sundance Film Festival this year, near the top of the pack was writer-director Gillian Robespierre and her feature debut Obvious Child. Led by Jenny Slate (Parks and Recreation), she plays an aspiring stand-up comedian barely making ends meet and soon finds out she’s pregnant.
We were major fans of the film, saying in our review, “If Paul Feig‘s Bridesmaids can be credited for commercializing the female gross-out comedy of this day and age, Obvious Child does well in bringing it back down to earth within a more contained, personal environment.” A24 picked up the dark comedy for distribution at Park City and now they’ve delivered the first impressive trailer ahead of a June release. Check it out below for the film also starring Jake Lacy, Gaby Hoffmann, David Cross, Gabe Liedman, and Richard Kind.
Donna Stern is a 27-year-old Brooklyn comedian whose unapologetically lewd, warmhearted wit is pretty irresistible with audiences. When she gets heartlessly “dumped up with” by her two-timing boyfriend, Donna plunges into some light stalking and heavy moping. Hitting a serious low point, she performs a dreary set of break-up vengeance and Holocaust jokes and drunkenly falls into bed with a nice young professional named Max—not remotely her type. A few weeks later, condoms be damned, she’s pregnant. Now Donna, incapable of telling anything but the naked truth when she’s on stage, will resort to any means to avoid telling Max the score. As her date with Planned Parenthood draws near, she must confront her doubts and fears like never before.
Obvious Child lands on June 6th.