Before all that obsession overtakes Kinda Pregnant, a young Lainy is seen playing with her best friend, Kate. Lainy has assumed the role of a mom trying to give birth to one imaginary child.

“Who’s the father?” she asks. “Doordash,” responds Lainy before adding, “driver.” Much of the fun in “Kinda Pregnant” is watching Lainy come up with increasingly ridiculous lies ...

In this case, rather than pretending to be sick, Lainy is pretending to be pregnant. We know a little ... a better environment for a child, the kind she didn’t have growing up.

Amy Schumer joked about her “moon face” diagnosis in her new Netflix comedy, “Kinda Pregnant.” In the movie, the 43-year-old actor and standup comedian plays Lainy, an English teacher who ...

Kinda Pregnant stars Schumer as Lainy, a youngish woman who gets profoundly jealous of the special treatment lavished on her best friend as soon as she becomes pregnant. She tries on a fake baby ...

“Kinda Pregnant” stars Amy Schumer, who co-wrote the screenplay, as Lainy Newton. She’s a middle-aged schoolteacher who always dreamed of settling down and being a mother. She also sleeps on a futon ...

When Lainy's plan to settle down and start a family falls apart, she puts on a fake baby bump, tells a lie, and accidentally falls for her dream guy.

But “Kinda Pregnant,” which Schumer wrote with Julie Paiva, almost as adeptly channels Schumer’s comic voice — the one that made the sketch series “Inside Amy Schumer” so great. The movie’s opening ...