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The Surrogate

"Our choices are never ours alone."

Jess is thrilled to be the surrogate for her best friend and his husband, but when a prenatal test comes back, it creates a moral dilemma that threatens their friendship.

Top Cast

  • Jasmine Batchelor

    Jasmine Batchelor

    Jess

  • Chris Perfetti

    Chris Perfetti

    Josh

  • Sullivan Jones

    Sullivan Jones

    Aaron

  • Brooke Bloom

    Brooke Bloom

    Bridget

  • Tonya Pinkins

    Tonya Pinkins

    Karen Weatherston-Harris

  • Brandon Micheal Hall

    Brandon Micheal Hall

    Nate

  • Eboni Booth

    Eboni Booth

    Samantha Harris

  • Leon Lewis

    Leon Lewis

    Leon

  • Leon Addison Brown

    Leon Addison Brown

    Stephen Harris

Overview

Jess is thrilled to be the surrogate for her best friend and his husband, but when a prenatal test comes back, it creates a moral dilemma that threatens their friendship.

Rating

4.1 / 10
14 Reviews
1 Popular

2 Reviews

  • SWITCH.
    SWITCH.
    7 Oct 25, 2020

    While the film has a few hiccups, the package as a whole comes across as a truly moving experience that challenges the audience's morals with really thought-provoking dialogue. Along with Jasmine Batchelor's phenomenal performance, 'The Surrogate' is an important film that everyone should check out. - Chris dos Santos Read Chris' full article... https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/article/review-the-surrogate-raising-heavy-yet-important-questions

  • tmdb28039023
    tmdb28039023
    1 Aug 28, 2022

    This movie put me in mind of a popular saying coined by Evelyn Beatrice Hall but widely misattributed to Voltaire: “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” The problem, however, is not whether I agreed or disagreed with what the protagonist, Jess, has to say; the problem is that, if I were to defend what she says to the death, I’d be liable to find out, right as I’m about to shuffle off my mortal coil, that she just flip-flopped on me. Jess talks the talk – and she certainly talks a good game –, but when push comes to shove, she doesn’t walk the walk. That is, she talks business but doesn’t mean business, and when it’s time to put her money where her mouth is, she totally flakes out. So not only did I disagree with Jess, but found her, as a character, disagreeable because she doesn’t have convictions so much as she has opinions – or, to be more exact, she always has one and the same opinion, and that opinion is whatever stands in opposition to what everybody else thinks. In one word, Jess is a contrarian, and her agenda doesn’t revolve about doing what’s right but about proving the others wrong. That’s too bad because the movie touches on some very polarizing issues but ultimately lacks the courage to take a definite stance, and the cop-out ending takes what could have been a thought-provoking film and turns it into self-indulging, self-righteous fence riding.

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