Anchor Baby

A married Nigerian couple, Joyce and Paul Unanga, living illegally in the United States, has been ordered to leave the country by the U. S. immigration. They decide that they will leave, but only after Joyce, who is five months pregnant, delivers her baby in the United States to guarantee automatic U. S. citizenship for their child. Thus, ignoring the deportation order, the couple goes into hiding. When Paul is caught and deported, leaving Joyce to fend for herself, she struggles on her own to survive. Bureaucracy keeps getting in the way of Joyce achieving her goal and just as she is about to give up hope, she meets Susan, a married freelance writer who offers to help in the form of safe, free accommodation until the baby is born. With the help of her newfound friend, Joyce sets out to make the 'American Dream' come true for her unborn child.

The movie got me confused at first because i thought there was no plot and was leading nowhere but then towards the end the plot got revealed and got really interesting.

The story involves a couple (Paul & Joyce) who are illegal immigrants in the United states hoping for a better life. They got caught by the US immigration service and were ordered to be deported. Joyce realizes she's pregnant and the couple decided to stay at least until the baby is born to secure a US citizenship for the child. Paul got caught and was immediately deported leaving his pregnant wife behind. Joyce avoiding the immigration officers struggles on her own and looks for a place to stay, she meets Susan who offers to help and take her in, Joyce accepts the offer not realizing Susan's hidden motives while facing numerous challenges.

Its one of those movies with a last minute twist, great movie.

It's a shame that we dodged Anchor Baby for many months as the trailer didn't seem engaging🙈

Speechless...It was honestly traumatizing to think that such an incident did happen in real life...

DELICIOUS

---Right from the beginning, we were presented with the definition of the term 'Anchor Baby', this was a welcoming element to introduce us to the story.

Anchor Baby was a story like no other that went beyond immigration problems to tap an extremely cruel phenomenon

-As diasporans, we sympathized with the couple struggling for a better life. We greatly appreciated the quotes at the end that showed the inadequacies of the US immigration system

-This film needed to be told to illustrate the insecurities and restrictions people without 'papers' live with in foreign lands

BLAND

-Anchor Baby would have had a much stronger impact if and only if the acting were refined.

We were waiting for Omoni Oboli to shed abundant tears and pour out her agony, yet, we didn't get much.

John the lawyer and Sam Sarpong appeared like they were still rehearsing the lines in their mind

-Dialogues could have been deeply crafted to send a strong message and address the immigration system in a thought-provoking way

-Anchor Baby concentrated the majority of its scenes on Omoni which became a bit monotonous without a solid parallel narrative

-Was that a baby doll we saw in the car seat after Omoni delivered???😖😖😖😖

-Not seeing shots of Paul for the rest of the movie tremendously limited the realism of the storyline...

I didn't quite expect where the story was going, it was a nice surprise, but some of the acting just wasn't very good. Something to pass the time during lockdown.

This movie annoyed me so much. The premise was great and interesting, but the plot just crawled on and on, to no end, and the acting was annoying especially from certain characters/scenes. Susan and John (Susan's lawyer friend) were particularly odd in their acting, like they don't know how "real" people behave.

Except Joyce Unanga, the main character. She did pretty good.

It's disappointing because I would have loved to get a movie on this topic (undocumented immigrants shown in a sympathetic light) where I could be really invested in the characters.

The ending was unexpected for me, so that was good, but it didn't feel necessary, like the twist didn't really do anything for the movie overall. If it had, I would have bumped it up to a 5/10 but no.

Also the whole movie felt like it was made in the early 2000s, from the camera quality, to the awkward cuts between some scenes, to the weird dialogue.