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The Home Delivery movie is a heartfelt ensemble comedy centered on Ellye, a successful plus-size supermodel who is determined to have a natural home birth for her first child. Believing the moment should be shared with those she loves most, Ellye invites her entire extended family to gather under one roof for the big event. What begins as an intimate and joyful celebration soon spirals into an unpredictable and hilarious ordeal. As the hours pass and labor stalls, the house fills with clashing personalities, unresolved family conflicts, and uncomfortable secrets that refuse to stay buried. Parents, siblings, spouses, and friends all struggle to keep their emotions in check while trapped together waiting for the baby to arrive. Amid the tension and absurdity, unexpected alliances form, long-standing grudges surface, and each family member is forced to confront their own fears, insecurities, and relationships. Guided by an unconventional midwife and fueled by equal parts love and frustration, the gathering becomes a whirlwind of awkward encounters, heartfelt confessions, and laugh-out-loud moments. As the night unfolds, the family begins to realize that welcoming a new life into the world might also be an opportunity to heal old wounds and rediscover what truly holds them together. The Home Delivery movie is a warm, chaotic comedy about family, forgiveness, and the messy beauty of life's most important moments.

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Aaron Neuwirth We Live Entertainment 1d
6/10
Some of this certainly falls into old tropes. Still, when there’s fun to be had with all the different interactions and the ticking clock that is the eventual birth, it’s easy just to roll along with the intended fun being generated by all involved. Go to Full Review Tara McNamara Common Sense Media 2d
2/5
Home Delivery is just another ughhh example from a filmmaker whose previous projects are all curiously horny stories about female characters in various states of reproduction. Go to Full Review Avi Offer NYC Movie Guru 2d
A hilarious, witty and surprisingly heartfelt comedy. Go to Full Review Kristy Strouse Film Inquiry 6d
Home Delivery is a comedy brave enough to sit with emotional messiness and find real heart. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Jennifer B 1d Deeply disappointed in this movie. While the performances themselves were great by a talented cast, the story perpetuates Hollywoods portrayal of pregnancy and birth as a high anxiety, traumatic, life threatening event. It frames the pregnant person as dramatic, unreasonable and incapable. It portrays midwives as irresponsible and incompetent and further frames the hospital as the only reasonable place people to deliver. Films like this do a tremendous disservice to birthing families by continuing the same cheap laughs and cliche jokes around birth at the expense of pregnant people, while reinforcing feelings of fear, anxiety and trauma around birth. This has real- life consequences because most people dont attend a birth until it is the birth of their own child, so when people see films like this they become fearful before the birth had ever happened or before they even become pregnant. People start their pregnancy journey from a place of fear because of films like this and that needs to stop. There are plenty of humorous things that happen during pregnancy and birth, humor around all of it is totally understandable, but the fear, trauma that Hollywood continues to portray is harmful and has been done over and over again. Its heartbreaking. Lastly, midwives are highly skilled and trained medical providers and the medical system already does a lot to prohibit or regulate midwifery care in the US. Portraying midwives in this way is a huge disservice to the valuable services they provide to the community. See more Nick G @NickGivas 23h I wrote a review of the film for The Western Journal and interviewed the director, Thom Harp. The cast did a great job, but Rainn Wilson stole the show. Much deeper and funnier than I expected. Not for everyone, but once you commit and stick around for the big finale, you'll be happy you did. See more Stephen C @bob25009 Mar 27 Funny in 1.75 hours. Rated R for Brief Drug Use, Sexual Content and Language. See more Ava W. @abovewill Mar 27 Loved it. The cast has such delicious chemistry. The comedy's pacing/editing is marvelous. It's a beautiful balance between loud laughs and quiet, sincere character moments. Ridiculous and genuine at the same time. See more Read all reviews
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Thom Harp

Director

Donald Faison

Jimmy Ferguson

Melanie Field

Ellye Ferguson

Peter MacNicol

Howard Evans

Joe Pantoliano

Gary Templeton

Jimmi Simpson

Kevin Messina
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Synopsis The Home Delivery movie is a heartfelt ensemble comedy centered on Ellye, a successful plus-size supermodel who is determined to have a natural home birth for her first child. Believing the moment should be shared with those she loves most, Ellye invites her entire extended family to gather under one roof for the big event. What begins as an intimate and joyful celebration soon spirals into an unpredictable and hilarious ordeal. As the hours pass and labor stalls, the house fills with clashing personalities, unresolved family conflicts, and uncomfortable secrets that refuse to stay buried. Parents, siblings, spouses, and friends all struggle to keep their emotions in check while trapped together waiting for the baby to arrive. Amid the tension and absurdity, unexpected alliances form, long-standing grudges surface, and each family member is forced to confront their own fears, insecurities, and relationships. Guided by an unconventional midwife and fueled by equal parts love and frustration, the gathering becomes a whirlwind of awkward encounters, heartfelt confessions, and laugh-out-loud moments. As the night unfolds, the family begins to realize that welcoming a new life into the world might also be an opportunity to heal old wounds and rediscover what truly holds them together. The Home Delivery movie is a warm, chaotic comedy about family, forgiveness, and the messy beauty of life's most important moments.
Director
Thom Harp
Screenwriter
Thom Harp
Distributor
TriCoast Entertainment
Production Co
Dopamine
Rating
R (Brief Drug Use|Sexual Content|Language)
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 27, 2026, Limited
Runtime
1h 45m