Love for Rent (2005)

Director:

Shane Edelman

Writers:

Andrew Miles (written by)
Brian D. Young (story)

Release Date:

1 February 2008 (Panama)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Tagline:

Would you rent your body and soul for $50,000?

Plot:

Tells the story of Sofia (Angie Cepeda), a Colombian college student struggling with immigration issues in LA, who accepts a $50,000 offer to rent her body and soul and become a surrogate mother to a wealthy couple. |

Plot Keywords:

Surrogate Mother | College Student | Eggs | Best Friend | Hospital

Awards:

1 win

Cast

  (Credited cast)

Angie Cepeda	...	Sofia
Ken Marino	...	Dr. Neil Gardner
Martita Roca	...	Monica
Nora Dunn	...	Helen Bauman
Jim Piddock	...	Frank Bauman
Max Burkholder	...	Max
Brad Rowe	...	Jesse
Richard Speight Jr.	...	George
Hunter Johnson	...	Zoe
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Lillian Adams	...	Mrs. Goldfarb
Rae Allen	...	Gwen
Ryan Armstrong	...	Ken
Lilli Birdsell	...	Chaney
Scott Burkholder	...	Principal Jones
Diana Castle	...	Dr. Langdon
Precious Chong	...	Binnie
Shane Edelman	...	Dennis (Restaurant Employer)
Matthew Fairchild	...	Brad
Robert Harvey	...	INS Agent (as Bob Harvey)
Jeanine Jackson	...	Wendy
Chane't Johnson	...	Cashier
Andy Milder	...	Paramedic
Meredith Morton	...	Shelly
Mitch Ryan	...	Doctor
Tony Sagastizado I	...	Paramedic
David Shackelford	...	Tony
Josh Stamberg	...	Paul
Jeanne Trepanier	...	Nurse Reynolds
Jack Wallace	...	Uncle Todd

Also Known As:

Amor en alquiler (USA: Spanish title)
Le choix de Sofia (France) (TV title) [fr]

MPAA:

Rated R for language including some sexual references.

Runtime:

96 min

Country:

USA | Colombia

Language:

Spanish | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

USA:R

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

MiamiLA Entertainment

Trivia:

Both Leonardo DiCaprio and Ashton Kutcher were considered for the role of Dr. Niel Gardner's, but the producers later decided they were too young for the role. Finally, the choices were narrowed down to Ken Marino, Zach Braff, and Mark Feuerstein. The producers loved Ken Marino's sense of humor and chose him.

Quotes:

[from trailer]
[Monica places a condom in his shirt]
Monica Garcia: This is just in case you miraculously manage to utter something remotely intelligent.

Movie Connections:

References The Exorcist (1973)

Soundtrack:

Nothing, Nothing

This is a very sweet little movie.

After reading such a harsh review of Love For Rent in the Miami Herald, I just had to see what stirred up such emotion in their critic, especially since I read a terrific review in the LA Times.

Angie Cepeda, plays Sofia, a Colombian native struggling to keep alive her dream of becoming a lawyer in America (finally a Latina in a film not depicted as a cleaning lady). She is so driven in her goals that when she gets an A- minus in law class, she is disappointed. After getting robbed of everything and it looks as though there's no choice but to give up and go back to Columbia, she is offered money to carry a childless couple's baby. She becomes a surrogate mother. But this movie is about much more than that. It's about the powerful mother-child connection whether genetically bonded or not. This theme runs throughout the movie involving most of the characters and their own maternal connections.

The entire audience cheered at the end. Perhaps, they too, were curious at what brought so much fury to the Herald's critic.