“The Drop” announces itself with promise and a fine note of unease, thanks to a surprisingly contrapuntal score that signals the darker intentions of director Sarah Adina Smith’s comedy, which is s…
’s comedy, which is set in motion by an accident that reveals young marrieds Lex and Mani’s anxieties about parenthood — and, perhaps, each other.
With their friskiness and easy repartee, the seemingly in-sync pair of Mani and Lex are humorous about her ovulation cycles. They own a Los Angeles bakery. They dig each other. And, while Mani would like to go to his mother’s birthday in Brooklyn, he’s willing to forego it to support Lex at the nuptials of friends Mia , a lawyer, and Peggy , a gynecologist.
Baby Ani’s accident turns into a muted referendum on what kind of a parent — but more vitally, mother — Lex would make. Smith says she came upon the idea thinking about “Force Majeure,” the tart Swedish film from 2014 in which a father bolts as an avalanche bears down on him and his family during a ski vacation. What courage is to fatherhood in that film, the will to nurture is to motherhood here.
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