“I thought it could be just a very moving story about women, about the decision to have children,” Cobie Smulders said earlier this year about her upcoming indie “Unexpected.” “And from my side of the story, the decision of career versus motherhood, and trying to juggle those. At the same time, these two women are having the same experience, but under very different circumstances. The juxtaposition of that is very interesting to watch play out.”
You may know Smulders as Maria Hill in the Marvel films, or in from the CBS sitcom “How I Met Your Mother,” but she’s beginning to carve out an interesting indie career for herself too. At Sundance, she had two films in the line-up: Andrew Bujalski’s “Results” and Kris Swanberg’s “Unexpected.” The latter is seemingly a simple, stripped-down story of an an inner-city high school teacher who bonds with one of her students when she discover they are both pregnant (here’s our Sundance review). Here’s the synopsis:
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