Last week we took a look back at Andie MacDowell�s apartment in Green Card, and a lot of you suggested other great movie apartments you�d like to see. I was surprised by how many requests I got for the Tina Fey-Amy Poehler comedy Baby Mama. I didn�t remember much about it, so I took another look.
Fey plays Kate, a single woman in her late �30s who wants a baby and hires Angie (Poehler) as her surrogate. Her apartment is nice, neat, and perfectly decorated, like pages ripped out of a Pottery Barn catalog�at least until Angie moves in and starts sticking her gum under Kate�s reclaimed barn-wood coffee table�
The movie is set in Philadelphia but most of it was filmed in New York (with some location shots from PA). The apartment interiors were built on a soundstage in Brooklyn.
Kate lives near Rittenhouse Square, but Angie comes from South Philly.
The front lobby of Kate�s fancy, schmancy apartment:
Greg Kinnear plays Kate�s love interest, Rob. Here he is in the entrance to her apartment:
In this behind-the-scenes shot of them filming in the entry hall, you can see their marks on the floor:
The living room:
Kate discovers the wads of chewing gum stuck underneath her coffee table and isn�t pleased:
In this shot from behind the scenes you can see into the dining area off the living room:
The balcony outside the apartment, off the living room:
It was hard to get a good photo of Kate�s fabulous kitchen. Here�s one from the �making of� featurette on the DVD:
Kate has a Viking kitchen. Viking reportedly provided �a range, refrigerator, beverage center, trash compactor and dishwasher for the set.� Lucky girl!
One of my favorite features in the kitchen is this swinging door with the little porthole window:
The kitchen seems huge, especially for a one-bedroom apartment in the city. What would she do with all that storage?
Kate�s Bedroom:
After Angie moves in, she takes over the bedroom and makes Kate sleep on the sofa in the living room.
Susan Bode-Tyson was the Set Decorator. She told the SDSA: �Kate is a very buttoned-up, organized person. The set was originally mildly interesting, but when the Angie character moves in with her, you get a sense of their very different worlds. And their worlds somewhat collide.�You can see a couple of set photos of the bedroom on the SDSA website.
Angie tries to get the baby lock off the toilet (I hate those things!):
I loved Rob�s (Greg Kinnear�s) townhouse, too, and wished we could have seen a little more of it than just the exterior and the kitchen:
The backsplash tile looks almost silver:
You guys gave me so many ideas for great movie apartments that maybe I�ll feature another one next week. Maybe When Harry Met Sally? Or Just Like Heaven?P.S. Every day my inbox fills up with emails asking me whether I�ve featured this, that, or the other movie house. I keep a handy list with links to all of them on my TV/Movie Houses page, in alphabetical order, so if you�re looking for something, check there! 
