have dinner together where Donna is prepared to tell Max about her pregnancy and impending abortion, but cannot bring herself to tell him after he makes a comment about how he wants to be a grandfather someday. He comes to Donna's comedy show, but her set is canceled and she leaves with another man, Sam. She has an awkward evening with Sam and quickly leaves. After her terrible night, Donna visits her mother to talk about her upcoming abortion. Her mother comforts her by telling her that she too had an abortion before Donna was conceived. Donna regrets pushing Max away and leaves him several unreturned voicemails apologizing and saying she really does need to talk to him. As a final effort, she invites him to the club to see her perform. Max arrives just as she goes on stage to perform a set about how she is pregnant and will have an abortion the next day. Max leaves, but on the day of Donna's abortion, he arrives at her home with flowers and asks if he can accompany her to her procedure. While at the clinic he tells her he supports her, and that when he said that he wanted to be a grandfather, he didn’t mean tomorrow but sometime far in the future. After the abortion, Max takes Donna to his home where he makes her tea, and then they watch Gone with the Wind together. Cast Jenny Slate as Donna Stern, a comedian who works at a bookstore Jake Lacy as Max, Donna's love interest Gaby Hoffmann as Nellie, Donna's roommate and best friend David Cross as Sam, a comedian and friend of Donna's Gabe Liedman as Joey, Donna and Nellie's friend, who is also a comedian Richard Kind as Jacob Stern, Donna's father Polly Draper as Nancy Stern, Donna's mother Paul Briganti as Ryan, Donna's ex-boyfriend Cindy Cheung as Dr. Bernard, a physician at the Planned Parenthood clinic Stephen Singer as Gene, owner of the bookstore at which Donna works Production Obvious Child originated as a short film of the same name about an unemployed woman who decides to terminate her pregnancy resulting from a one-night stand, which was written by Gillian Robespierre, Anna Bean and Karen Maine. Robespierre said that the story was spawned from her frustration with what she perceived as a "misrepresentation of women on screen when it came to unplanned pregnancy", in