Fancying themselves sophisticated, career-driven individuals who want kids but don’t feel the need to be burdened by the everyday stresses of love and marriage, best buds Jason (Adam Scott) and Julie (Jennifer Westfeldt) conceive a scheme to procreate together and co-parent their child as separate but platonically loving friends rather than live-in partners. To them, this sounds progressive and easy.
Yet neither predict that their relationship will evolve under such curious conditions, and when they begin to date other people — Megan Fox and Edward Burns play their respective love interests — things don’t go as smoothly as planned. There’s also trouble in paradise for their two sets of married-with-children pals. Straight-talkers Leslie (Maya Rudolph) and Alex (Chris O’Dowd) are spread too thin between their rambunctious toddlers and their faltering conjugal time, while the passionate foundation under Ben (Jon Hamm) and Missy (Kristen Wiig), formerly the most wildly in-love couple on the Upper West Side, promptly turns to clay.
