Friends With Kids, review - Telegraph Friends with Kids takes a real subject - wanting children before it's too late, not being in a suitable relationship - and has half an adult stab at it, until it takes the one turn you're hoping it won't. Jennifer Westfeldt wrote, directed, and stars as Julie, who makes a bold arrangement with her commitment-phobe best friend (Adam Scott) to conceive and timeshare a sprog. Their friends, played by basically the entire cast of Bridesmaids, are doubtful and unsupportive, partly because they read it as an implicit judgment on their own frazzled lives (which it is). Westfeldt, a sympathetic enough presence who can also be a frustratingly monotonous actress, should have swapped parts with Kristen Wiig (who's oddly muted), and fixed that ending. It's left to the wonderful Scott, with his satyr's face and killer timing, to carry the movie through thick and thin.