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I do not like the term "chick flick" because it seems like a lazy generalization but I am sorely tempted to use it in this case. If you can call a testosterone filled action movie a guy flick without blinking where do we have left to put a movie about a woman who is trying to conceive before her fertility wanes? So I'll just go ahead and write it. Miss Conception is the biggest chick flick I have ever seen.

I know I am not the target audience here. As a male I am well aware that for women the issue of fertility is a more compelling one, given that most of them have trouble conceiving in their thirties and in their forties find it all but impossible. You will never hear about a man's biological clock ticking, for instance. However, I have also never been in a war, lost a child, been cheated on by my wife with my best friend, lost millions in the blink of an eye or any of the other scenarios I have seen in movies that I felt comfortable reviewing regardless of my lack of common experiences. In fact our main character's plight being so common made me want to enjoy this movie despite the fact that I was not sure I even wanted to see it in the first place.

This plot actually had the potential to be a classic. The story revolves around a young lady living in London who is told she only has one month to conceive. Up until this point she is an ambitious working woman who had never given much thought to the issue of raising children, thinking she would have much more time than she actually has. She is thunderstruck. To me this set the story up as a classic case of nature versus individualism, a searing instance of the urge to procreate and generate offspring raising its head to overpower all else in one sudden moment.

This film stars Heather Graham and Mia Kirschner and even though they are not British their accents were not bad at all. I thought the acting was quite charming and the strongest point of the movie. The plot is what left me underwhelmed.

Heather Graham plays Georgina, a woman with one ovary who has less than a month left before prematurely hitting menopause. She has a filmmaker boyfriend who seems not to want to have children. His faithfullness is questioned as he is off in Ireland filming with his attractive "assistant" at the time she gets the news. They have the inevitable fight. She knows he cannot give her the baby she needs for a number of reasons and then starts to look around.

Then comes the most unrealistic part of the movie, the montage of scenes

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