The Business of Being Born

Though "The Business of Being Born" sometimes feels more like a reality TV pilot ("Manhattan Midwives"? "Celebrity Bathtub Births"?) than a full-fledged documentary, as an advocacy piece for natural childbirth, the film delivers. Director Abby Epstein, along with executive producer Ricki Lake, takes a startlingly intimate look at the birthing process and the lesser-known options available to expectant [...] Vai alla recensione »

“The Business of Being Born” is a passionate ground-level examination of home childbirth, anchored in a scene in which its executive producer, Ricki Lake, the actress and former talk-show host, gives birth to her second child in a bathtub. That graphic scene, and several other unblinking sequences of home birth attended by a midwife, are intended to erase any stigma from the situation.