Philip French 

The Switch

This comedy starring Jennifer Aniston as a woman who is unwittingly impregnated by her best friend is not as bad as it sounds, writes Philip French
  
  

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Jason Bateman and Jennifer Aniston in the comedy The Switch. Photograph: Public Domain

This sentimental comedy has an attractive performance from Jason Bateman as a New York equity analyst (one of two leading men this week with such a job), the kindly, long-time best friend of TV producer Jennifer Aniston, who announces to his disappointment that she's about to inseminate herself. At what the invitations call her "pregnancy party" he gets very drunk, replaces her donor's sperm with his own and becomes the top seed before blacking out. Seven years later he meets her cute son, his physical and psychological double, repressed memories slowly return and life becomes complicated. The film isn't as bad as it sounds, and Aniston is her sweet vague self.

 

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