When rejected by hospital staff, she takes the subway home where she meets a man named Claude, with whom she bonds with deeply, over loss of parents and relationship issues.

After returning home, Eden and Claudette meet up with Dawn and her family to see the movie for which Claude had filmed a minor role on the night they met.

[4] The next month, it was announced that Lynch, Minhaj, James, Platt, the Lucas Brothers and Bernhard were cast in the film, which was then in production in New York City.

The website's consensus reads: "Offering an uproariously unvarnished look at motherhood and female friendships, Babes finds Pamela Adlon making an assured feature-length directorial debut with a big assist from stars Ilana Glazer and Michelle Buteau.

[10] Lovia Gyarkye of The Hollywood Reporter reviewed the film positively, writing that "Adlon’s feature directorial debut bursts with a boisterous energy from its opening moments.

[11] Ferdosa Abdi of Screen Rant wrote that "the filmmaking team captures an authentic, and often underrepresented, facet of sisterhood and motherhood".

[13] Zachary Barnes of The Wall Street Journal said that "it is never very affecting -- or, more lethally, very funny...the kind of comedy that makes you wonder what jokes are, exactly, and if what you just saw contained any".

[14] Valerie Complex of Deadline Hollywood said "it presents a series of vignettes on motherhood and female friendship that are at times touching and hilarious but often feel disjointed and unrealistic".