Writer-director Gillian Robespierre has heard a lot of interpretations of the title of her romantic-comedy-featuring-an-abortion, Obvious Child. "You can sort of look it any way you want to and a lot ...

Donna Stern is a standup comic in the confessional mode, which is rough on boyfriends who don’t want their intimacies turned into public shtick. When a one-night stand with nice-guy Max (Jake Lacy) ...

The camaraderie between Jenny Slate and director Gillian Robespierre was evident on Sunday when the pair debuted A24’s “Obvious Child” at New York’s Sunshine Landmark. The film, based on a 2009 short, ...

Fresh material is the key to ennobled comedy. And Gillian Robespierre’s Obvious Child is so fresh that the laughter was, indeed, good medicine. Kristen Wiig, Anna Faris, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and ...

EXCLUSIVE: Gillian Robespierre (Obvious Child, Landline) and Mathilde Dratwa (Milk and Gall) have been tapped to executive produce and pen the adaptation for Separation Anxiety, a limited series based ...

During the making of "Obvious Child," director/screenwriter Gillian Robespierre had a few balls in the air. Would Jenny Slate's Donna, a fledgling stand-up comedian with a penchant for potty humor, ...

Jenny Slate loves a tangent. In “Seasoned Professional,” her comedy special directed by Gillian Robespierre that debuted on Prime Video earlier this year, she diverges from a story about preparing to ...

Hi! My name is Gillian Robespierre. I’m a writer-director and so thrilled to be attending the 2011 IFP Emerging Narrative project forum with my script Obvious Child. It’s a romantic comedy about a ...

The comedy "Landline" tells of how a family copes with betrayal, secrets and lies and how it all eventually draws them even closer together. The movie's star, Jenny Slate, stopped by to tell us more ...

The trailer for one of Sundance's success stories, Gillian Robespierre's Obvious Child, has hit, and it's both charming and wonderfully frank. Yes, the word "abortion" is said out loud. More than once ...