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First-time director Kevin Walls delivers a film with a gentle sweetness that offsets some comedic missteps, as roommates Eilidh and Cameron navigate impending parenthood.

The famous saying goes that a baby stroller in the hallway is the enemy of great art. This low-budget, sunlit Scottish comedy focuses on the period before the stroller arrives, when an art school dropout in her twenties unexpectedly finds herself pregnant. Directed by debut filmmaker Kevin Walls, the movie has a zany, off-kilter energy where things are amusingly upside down: a couple embarks on their first date when the woman is three months pregnant, having a child at an age when most people are delaying it to build their careers. It's good-natured, with just enough charm to make up for a few painfully bad comedic moments.

Elle Watson plays Eilidh, an artist working as a barista in a museum café. She has a friends-with-benefits arrangement with her flatmate Cameron (James Rottger), who works in finance. After earning two degrees, accumulating a huge student debt, and spending years in a tedious entry-level role, he has finally secured an interview for his dream job. It would be irrational to keep the baby, but Eilidh doesn't take the abortion pills. She can't give Cameron a clear reason why—fair enough, it's her choice, a gut instinct. Walls wisely avoids venturing anywhere near the pro-choice/anti-abortion debate.