Baby Done‘s first ten minutes make for great storytelling. Other films take too long to spit their premise out, but this one bluntly says it early. Zoe (Rose Matafeo) finds out about her pregnancy, upending her regular life. She can’t even act normally in a fruit store despite her saintly boyfriend Tim (Matthew Lewis) doing his best to give her some reassurance. Since opposites attract, Zoe and Tim, for the most part, make a cute hipster-y couple.

Along with a young part timer, Sonny (Matenga Ashby), Zoe and Tim work as arborists. The specificity of this job adds to the film’s realism. It makes it different from romantic comedies where female protagonists are in boring office jobs. The physical demands on it also factors in the longer Zoe’s pregnancy goes. The film puts them in a lot of atypical scene settings like the fruit store I previously mentioned and a hostel party where at least he can drink.

Baby Done, then, puts weird on top of weird with that pregnancy, as he can’t perform sexually because of the baby inside her. It thankfully doesn’t make Zoe think too much about her looks during her pregnancy. There are bigger issues for her, like motherhood making her miss wild nights out with her best friend Molly (Emily Barclay). She’s also starting to notice that her pregnancy is making Tim want to commit to her on a more formal basis which she finds kind of stifling.

Pregnancy often involves two people, and this film about it writes the central couple with interesting, left field observations. I wish I can say the same for its supporting characters, which, thankfully, hasn’t been my critique in recent films I’ve seen. As I write this, the script does shaft Molly’s character, who objects to pregnancies because of their effect on the environment.

The script gives Matafeo and Lewis enough material but it also boxes their characters in. They’re a couple drifting apart, as Tim wants a family with Zoe while she thinks family life will kill her ambitions. Both actors perform that conflict competently. But it still feels like the middle act in every romantic comedy where a couple finds something to fight about. These fights get too much as Zoe finds solace with Brian (Nic Sampson), a pregnancy fetishist.

One of the better clichés here is the one where Zoe’s not like other girls or, more specifically, pregnant girls. Films about pregnancies will put characters like Zoe in situations like training groups for pregnant women and their partners. Viewers don’t need personal experience to show how gossipy some groups can be. And the film justifies Zoe’s reactions to the micro-aggressions against her.

And as Zoe and Tim, Matafeo and Lewis have a lovely chemistry. Even watching them apart makes viewers want to root for them to get back together. Lewis as Tim has the qualities of a good dad. Matafeo imbues Zoe with a rebellious spirit. Her skills with physical comedy are on bright display here, showing everyone around her strengths as a leading lady.