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At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

This was an extremely uncomfortable movie. First of all, it's a movie about a girl who wants to have a baby so badly. She looks to be in her late 20's early 30's, and she wants to have a baby with her current boyfriend. When he clearly isn't ready…she storms off, and leaves him. She goes to the doctor, because she is afraid that she is too old to have kids. When the doctor says she's got one last shot at having a child...she tries to get ahold of her boyfriend...but she can't get ahold of him because his new assistant wants her boyfriend and sabatages her calls. So, thinking that her boyfriend left her for good...she tries to find three different handsome strangers...and...well, just use your imagination. It was uncomfortable...but in the end, her boyfriend realizes that his co-worker is rejecting his girlfriends calls, and runs back to her...but not in time. Still, it has a happy ending. It was OK...just uncomfortable to watch...not a date night movie.For daily movie reviews visit: kimsmoak.com now!

Any movie released nowadays with the word "Miss" in the title referring to an unmarried woman, even when done as a play on word meaning, is either an angry gender political satire, or a sappy happy chick flick aimed squarely at frustrated single yuppie heterosexual women in the full heat of midlife baby panics. This movie is not a satire."Miss Conception" makes an interesting comparative double feature with "Teeth." The latter is a male homosexual nightmare fantasy, dressed up as pseudo feminist hokum, about the ultimate theoretical result of penile-vagina contact. .I have no idea how popular "Miss Conception" was in theaters. I had never heard of it until I saw it in a video store. I think, though, that unmarried, boyfriend-less mid thirty-something professional straight women too busy for "relationships," yet yearning for spawn, and a penis to provide it (or a turkey baster and a mail order cup of the goods), is a bigger audience than gay men and bitter lesbians watching a vagina bite off penises to validate their fears about returning to the yeasty maw that generated them, or satisfy unrequitable penis envy, respectively. For whatever reasons, nerdy gore loving teenage boys never really bit down on 'Teeth," probably because that movie's gay male director and writer infested the flick with too much yeasty pretension, and not enough potent gore."Miss Conception," to its credit for a movie of its type written by two women (presumably heterosexual), has no pretensions at all. It's a thoroughbred chick flick and makes no apologies for itself. There is nothing tentative about it, and the only guilt it seeks to induce is the guilty pleasure of its post feminist schlocky plot. That concerns a 34 year old successful business woman (who owns a construction company believe it or not) about to undergo a precocious menopause, and her frantic quest to mate when the last egg drops.After she visits a quack gynecologist who tells her that her next period will be her last one, she carefully plans how she will manage to impregnate herself, with typically improbable screwball results. A beautiful woman has four whole days to get bred, and all she can manage to land as prospective bedmates are gay men and her hunky foreman whose been rendered sterile by the mumps. Even her vial of mail order sperm winds up misfired by a turkey baster onto her 34th birthday cake in a really silly scene. Her last hope is her former boyfriend whom she really loves and wants to father her child. She dumped him earlier because he doesn't want kids, only now she makes one last attempt at getting his pee pee inside her unsheathed before time runs out. That turns out to be really hard because he goes to Ireland to shoot a movie, and will be gone the whole four days unless she can get him on the phone, and stop the bimbo female producer with him, and after him, from pulling out all her stops to make sure he never gets back in time to put in.This movie views as silly as a synopsis of the plot reads. Men should only see it if forced to by a woman they wish to enter, sheathed or not.

I give this movie a 5/10. For most people who intend to watch this movie there maybe somethings you'd like to know in order to decide whether to go ahead and rent it. So I'll provide the ups and downs.Downs : Heather Graham doesn't do a very bad job at portraying the character she plays, the movie's characters are just a little weak. For a character (girl) who is trying/wanting to get pregnant in the movie, almost every scene has alcohol in it. And in this age or say generation where communication is much more prevalent than the middle ages, its not so hard to get in touch with your half broken up boyfriend for 4-5 days. The movie is supposed to have some jokes I heard. I didn't really succumb to any of them.After having said all that some Ups : Despite have weak characters play the movie, the storyline wasn't so bad. Every move was intended to be a little suspenseful and Heather of course looks terrific in the movie.

Recently I have seen a slew of low budget independent films with Heather Graham staring. I'm not sure if she can just not find work in the Hollywood main stream or if maybe she is trying to hone her craft in the independent scene. Well, I'm going to have to go with Hollywood rejecting her, because her choices in films have not been great. In my opinion she is a beautiful woman who has done some pretty good work before but to me it's beginning to feel like just another Heather Graham movie, like this film here. OK, to be fair she does have an accent (no matter how bad it is) in this film so that is something to separate it. My point being she always delivers the same performance, exactly what the her character is and adding nothing new or unique, just a simple cookie cutter character for each film. Here is no exception, the premise could have been unique but is not, it could have brought about some very genuinely funny moments but does not in fact like Heather Graham this film does nothing more then it's simple story requires. In fact what is scary is that in most romantic comedies I feel it's the pointless supporting cast the can kill a film a take screen times away from your leads. Well in this case believe it or not the supporting cast is actually better an d more of them would have made for a better film instead we have same old Heather Graham and her on again off again boyfriend who is a jerk every time they are on screen together but then some how is the nice relatable guy when they are separate hmmm. Well, I have already drug this review on more then the film deserves, it's a waste of a good idea and just all to typical.