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The universal act of having a baby plays out in interesting and humorous ways in "Unexpected," a powerful new comedy-drama about class differences and similarities. Samantha Abbott (Cobie Smulders), a science teacher in a soon-to-be-closed inner-city Chicago high school, finds out she's pregnant. She also learns that her best student, college-bound Jasmine (Gail Bean), is also pregnant, and they're both due around the same time. What follows points out the different surroundings in which the 29-year-old white teacher and the 17-year-old black student are about to bring their children into the world. Both Bean and Smulders give beautiful performances as women anticipating major changes in their lives.

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What is LIFF: Unexpected about?: The universal act of having a baby plays out in interesting and humorous ways in "Unexpected," a powerful new comedy-drama about class differences and similarities. Samantha Abbott (Cobie Smulders), a science teacher in a soon-to-be-closed inner-city Chicago high school, finds out she's pregnant. She also learns that her best student, college-bound Jasmine (Gail Bean), is also pregnant, and they're both due around the same time. What follows points out the different surroundings in which the 29-year-old white teacher and the 17-year-old black student are about to bring their children into the world. Both Bean and Smulders give beautiful performances as women anticipating major changes in their lives.