Evie, the Baby and the Wife

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Evie Troy, an impulsive and funny young Jewish woman, has a tendency to overcomplicate things. And that can get her into trouble. When her dying friend Jean-Gabriel, a successful and controversial francophone writer, cons her into carrying out his last wish, delivering a monetary mea-culpa to his ex-wife Amélie, Evie decides she knows better. Jean-Gabriel is tainted by a successful play that bears the name of his former and much younger wife whom the public imagines is the inspiration for this play about marital strife. Evie's mother, Marilyn, hates what she thinks Jean-Gabriel stands for (i.e, older man who marries and emotionally betrays in a very public way an extremely young wife) and can't fathom her daughter's daft determination to saddle up her womb on spec. A whacky plot unfolds in which Jean-Gabriel dies and Evie inherits the job of giving his former wife, Amelie, his fortune without her knowing the source of the money. Evie decides what Amelie really needs is a baby,...