(Comedy/Drama) Canada - 109 minutes Director: Jacob Tierney Writer: Sonja Bennett Producer: Kevin Eastwood, Dylan Collingwood Cast: Sonja Bennett, Paul Campbell, Laura Harris, James Caan, Danny Trejo, Danny Trejo, Laura Harris, Jared Keeso, Lisa Durupt, Carrie Ruscheinsky, Denise Jones
At 35, Ruth is single, friendless, and much to her family's chagrin, still scanning groceries at the dingy supermarket she's worked at since high school. When Ruth is mistakenly thought to be pregnant, she suddenly feels the warm glow of the world on her for the first time in her life. She is finally special. Ruth plans on coming clean, but when her dad (James Caan) has a heart attack and he tells her that the promise of being a grandfather is the only thing keeping him alive, Ruth decides to continue to fake the pregnancy. Her mean spirited sister (Lisa Durupt) becomes jealous and makes it her life's mission to prove that Ruth's still the loser she's always been. Things get even more complicated when Ruth falls in love with a man (Paul Campbell) who seems to wants nothing more than to raise her unborn children as his own. With the help of her friend, Pedro (Danny Trejo), the hapless janitor at her store, Ruth must tackle ultrasounds, Lamaze classes, and finding a baby to birth. Oh yeah, and dating with a secret the size of a basketball stuffed under her shirt. Can she get out of this without losing her job, friends, respect of her family, and the love of her life? Written by Sonja Bennett who also stars, and directed by Jacob Tierney (The Trotsky, Good Neighbors), Preggoland is a comedy that looks at the lengths we will go, just to be part of the club.
