Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

it is the rare 'crazy' movie that actually has something to say.

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

While the romance genre is something I'm new to, I'd have to say this was one of the best ones I've seen (please remember, I've only watched about 5 romance movies in my 32 years of life).A love that develops between people of two different races and cultures is something that I find very fascinating. It proves that we all want the same thing, no matter what creed, culture, race, nation, religion, whatever we come from.That being said, Vera Farmiga puts on her best "desperate woman" role (I believe she won the Emmy for Bates Motel for playing a character I'd describe as such). Desperate to please her Korean-American husband and his family, she goes to a sperm clinic alone and witnesses a Korean man with an expired visa getting rejected as a donor.Intrigued by the possibility of covertly and unmaliciously fooling her husband by having sex with a Korean man simply for the sake of having a baby she can at least pretend belongs to her and her husband, she follows the rejected sperm donor and eventually gives him a business proposal.What follows is story of inner conflict, the desire (and simultaneous torment) to live up to societal and cultural expectations (and how they can get in the way of true love), as well as how other things out of our control can get in the way of being with the one we want.While the epilogue left me a little confused, I was for the most part enraptured by the film. I think it'd be appealing to anyone having trouble finding true happiness and love.Also, did Vera break the 4th wall at the end?

Long story short: Sophie and her husband Andrew can't have children so Sophie, on her own and without saying anything to her husband, decides to start banging Jihah, a Korean man who looks somewhat similar to her husband. It's an interesting concept, and the film was rolling along -- right up to the point that Sophie announces she's pregnant. That's when things began to head south. And I REALLY started hating this film the minute pregnant Sophie goes back to have sex with her surrogate turkey baster. I was actually yelling at the screen: "Don't do it, Sophie. Don't do it". (Needless to say, she didn't listen, and went ahead and did it.) That in and of itself might not have been so bad, if she at least had had the integrity to be honest with her husband. (You know...the person she was SUPPOSEDLY doing all this for in the first place.) But no...she lied. And cheated. And continued to lie and cheat throughout the rest of the film -- all the while telling her surrogate turkey baster how much she loved her husband. She even goes so far as to demand from her surrogate turkey baster that he tell her that: "This baby is his (her husband's). Please tell me this baby is his."It's an interesting film. The acting was excellent, especially Vera Farmiga as Sophie. But the message is all wrong. Sophie is not any sort of a victim or a hero; she's just a plain old fashioned run of the mill ho. So when it comes to the end, which focuses exclusively on whether or not Sophie is now happy, the only emotional response I felt at that point was disdain.

I really, really admire Vera Farmiga for taking on this project. How can you not? Allow me to explain.If you can suspend logical disbelief while watching this film, you will be swept away. The movie had a quiet and patient, but very powerful undercurrent.It deals so nonchalantly with something that is so uncommon in movies nowadays, that I have to make mention of it. An Asian male in honest and open sex scenes with a white female. The real achievement here is that this movie avoids the race issue altogether. The director does not turn it into some kind of elephant in the room. No, it is an elephant of our own Western making, is it not? Was anyone else shocked to see love portrayed this way, where it is truly is shown as universal, not just possible between chosen ethnic pairings? The movie did not treat it like a big deal at all. The white girl - Asian guy couples I've met in real life don't treat it like a big deal either. I believe this ethnic pairing - currently, perhaps the only interracial pairing that actually occurs less frequently in Western movies than it does in real life - will become more commonplace as the Asian cinema industry matures, as the West becomes ever-increasingly comfortable with the East, as both sides evolve towards the human average, and there are more Asian actors from which to choose.Now that aside, let's get back to the film itself, because it is more than capable of standing proudly on its own feet without its groundbreaking nonchalant attitude towards race.Tremendous acting, especially from Ms. Farmiga and Jung-woo Ha, the "homewrecker." The amount of emotion that these two are able to convey in nonverbal moments is truly stunning. You will be moved.The set designs and cinematography, in addition to the beautiful actors themselves, are a visual feast - a real aesthetic treat.The sex scenes were very tasteful and well-done. As the relationship develops, so clearly does the depth and honesty of their physical relations, to the point where Farmiga's character is able to climax by simply daydreaming about her lover.You may know the entire plot line to this movie already, and you will still have an A+ experience watching how it was executed.I loved this film. It defied almost all my expectations, and will probably watch it several times over the course of my life. I would recommend that anyone who decides to watch this film, too, find within themselves a fraction of Vera Farmiga's open-mindedness, boldness, and vision when she took on this project.A standing ovation for her.

A woman, Sophie, makes a $$pact with an illegal alien man to try and get herself pregnant, she's married to an upper-middle class church-going professional who can't seem to get it done. Perfunctory sex for hire turns to something quite a bit more, not right away though (we're in on the action) and the three points of the human triangle come closer together. A slight jab is thrown at the Christianity as practiced by American Koreans, maybe that perfect house in the suburbs isn't all it seems. A good tale with a fine suspense on how it's all going to play out, and the ending leaves something for the viewer to ponder, about Sophie's choice.