You won't be disappointed!

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

I liked the fact that Nina manages to picture very well the concerns of a woman in her 41s being realistic enough to realize that if she really wants to experience the role of a natural mother, then she has to take a decision and it has to be a fast one. I read a comment above debating on why a woman in her 40s is still single. From my point of view the comment proves judgment and criticism building on the hypothesis that is has to be the woman fault for still being single. I choose to stay away from these perspectives because I feel it's the right of every person to take her/his romantic decision, no matter the age. I scored the Documentary with a high score because I felt I was watching a grounded and realistic movie. Yes it might happen to be single in your 40s and still want to be a mother, as it can happen to feel more close to your mother than you felt towards the Dad. This doesn't mean that the relationships cannot change or evolve. And I am stating this because I am sure that how Nina decided to share her perspectives and feelings towards her father, changed something inside him, opened him up and allowed him to see life from different angles. Great Job Nina! I really liked your openness and creativity!

Rather than reviewing this "amateurish home movie" of a desperate non housewife, I would like to suggest that if you are past 40 and still not married and childless, and want a child so badly, for krissakes: adopt. There are so many children who are abandoned: give them a chance rather than complain after choosing to give birth as a single mother, that it was the worst pain you ever experienced. Really, with all your research you were not expecting that?(By the way, here's a piece of advice: if you are having your first child: as soon as the contractions start: walk!! Walk in the neighborhood, or around your dining room table, or at the hospital, at a steady clip. I felt the first contractions at 2PM: I walked around the house for the next 3.5 hours: arrived at the hospital at 6PM and delivered my first child without all that suffering and screaming at 9:30PM).To "create" a baby with a guy who basically does not even want to be a parent at all, and who made this clear from the start, sounds like a lack of ethics on the part of the rather pushy "wannabe mother". And when the kid is about two, she lies in bed with him and accuses him of being "difficult". Why am I not surprised?Children need two parents, and sometimes that does not happen because of a variety of problems. But the egotism which purposely creates a one parent family, is, in my view, sick and sickening.Avoid this pathetic "oy my uterus is shutting down" piece of dreck. It is NOT a feminist manifesto; it is a major piece of egotistical whining.

If the love to which Nina Davenport refers in First Comes Love is the narcissistic love of oneself, then she has picked the perfect title for her documentary, which follows her over the two years following her decision to be a single mom Don't get me wrong. Nina packs a mean camera. Since she does her filming herself, I have to give her kudos for her control of the camera as she films family conversations, the public humiliation of her father, and her own manipulation of her friends and family into doing the work while she sits back and experiences the day. Not everyone can pull it off. She does. The problem is that she pulls it off at the expense of so many around her.There is a need for these documentaries. Many women who are not in love relationships are desperate to have children, and time is not on their side, so the odds are never in their favor. Their experiences charting that difficult course are worth noticing. But I have to agree with Nina's dad. It's not fair for her to bring a child into the world. She is not self-sufficient, so how can she possibly take on the added burden (and joy) of a child. He was right. Six months after her fabulous son was born, she was at her father's house asking why, oh why, wouldn't he support her? Her, a Harvard grad who just wants to be a filmmaker and take years, years, and more years to make films that will not pay her bills. It's that sense of entitlement that comes from having grown up entitled.Her journey is one worth recording. Her version of her journey is so reminiscent a woman looking into a pond and admiring her own image that it's hard to stomach. She should try watching her own documentary as if she were any of the other people in it – from their perspective and she might see, just for a moment or two, why those around her don't find her all that easy to be around. That said, I wish her and her son all the best. And, a piece of advise from the mother of a twenty-seven year old. Give him a bedtime. We all need one.

There is almost nothing redeemable about this documentary. It's about a 41-yr old woman who wants a baby out-of-wedlock, her struggles, her attitudes, her family, her path. I don't mean to demean the personal experience of Nina Davenport, but why the @*&! does she think that anyone would be interested in her? In a word, it adds nothing to the viewer's understanding of the issues. What issues? Love and commitment eluded Nina, so she sought a sperm donor, got pregnant, and along the way, we hear every thought, concern, idea, and notion that enters (and exits) her mind. Ideas like "family is difficult". Ideas like "I love my mother and my father is insensitive." Ideas like "labor is painful". Ideas like "I love my child". Ideas like "dating is difficult". I'm mesmerized. How HBO could have funded this two-hour exercise in time-wasting is beyond me. Why not have a documentary about me at the Farmers' Market or going to the dentist, while I'm worried about getting a cavity filled. Again, I appreciate that having a child is a bigger issue, but Ms. Davenport tackles this subject in the most clichéd manner one could imagine.Save yourself two hours. Skip the crap out of this.