For hundreds of years, Africa has existed in a state of despair. Famine, civil wars and rampant disease have left the continent without hope, but for the efforts of Western do-gooders. At first, they arrived with food, bibles and the magic of penicillin; more recently they have hosted rock concerts and sent plane loads of grain. And in the last decade of the 20th century they arrived and took babies home with them. First there was Angelina, then Madonna, and now...Pauly Shore! The film builds its comedy foundation on the international interest in Celebrity Adoptions, and the debate that surrounds these transactions on both sides of the Atlantic. Sometimes politically incorrect and never scared to tread on manicured toes.
Writing
Satire sharper than expected from Pauly Shore
Direction
Shore's self-aware mockumentary instincts
Director
Pauly Shore
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released at peak celebrity adoption frenzy, when Madonna and Jolie made African-born children red carpet accessories.
Shore essentially made a Tim & Eric movie before that was a recognized genre—complete with uncomfortable sincerity buried under irony.
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