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Starbuck (15)

Comedy

As his lover announces her pregnancy, a fortysomething slacker receives other life-changing news: 142 people, all of them the result of artificial insemination, have filed a class action lawsuit against him, their biological father.

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The critical consensus

Ken Scott and co-writer Martin Petit keep the comic suspense ticking along, and in Huard they have a likeable and disarming lead.

***(*)(*)Anthony Quinn, The Independent, 22/11/2012

Good fun and well performed with plenty of charm.

***(*)(*)Henry Fitzherbert, Daily Express, 22/11/2012

A French comedy that pitches for wit over broad comedy, it's successful in salting what could be a over-sugary confection with healthy dose of wryness. The result is always entertaining and rarely mawkish.

****(*)Philip Wilding, Empire Online, 22/11/2012

Almost all the charm of the real story is lost through the contrivances and overacting.

**(*)(*)(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 22/11/2012

Gets increasingly sentimental as it drags on.

Philip French, The Observer, 25/11/2012

Its heart is in the right place, but its cock is firing blanks.

Ashley Clark, Little White Lies, 22/11/2012

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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