This Is (Not) Your Ocean

Five years after Knocked Up, Debbie owns a boutique, and among her employees are Jodi and an attractive woman named Desi about whom Debbie and Jodi gossip. Pete owns his own record label, but it struggles financially as he promotes the reunion of Graham Parker & The Rumour.

Debbie and Pete also deal with conflict between their daughters, 13-year-old Sadie and eight-year-old Charlotte. For Debbie’s 40th birthday, the couple goes on a romantic weekend to a resort. There they get high on marijuana cookies and fantasize out loud about ways they would kill each other.

After speaking with her friends Jason and Barb, Debbie decides to improve her marriage and family through exercise and strengthening her relationship with her father. She tells Pete he needs to stop lending his father Larry money because it is hurting them financially, but he fails to follow through with this.

Meanwhile, Debbie learns she is pregnant but decides not to tell Pete. Later, she yells at a student, Joseph, who had an online argument with Sadie on Facebook leading to a confrontation between Pete and Joseph’s mother, Catherine.

Debbie takes Desi out dancing at a club, planning to confront her with her suspicions that she has been stealing money from the store. They meet several players from the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team there. Debbie awkwardly finds out that one of the players wants to hang out with her and possibly sleep with her. Though flattered, she reveals that she is married, has two children, and is pregnant.

When Debbie later confronts Desi about the missing money, Desi reveals she can afford nice things because she is also an escort. Subsequently, Jodi confesses she stole the money to buy Oxycontin, and is fired.

Pete and Debbie deal with Sadie and Charlotte’s constant fighting, which puts an additional strain upon the family. They meet with the school principal, but the couple denies Catherine’s accusations, and when she starts using the same foul language they had used previously, the principal dismisses them.

At Pete’s 40th birthday party, the couple again argues about the money his father wants from them. Debbie argues with her father about not spending enough time in her life, and how he is perfect. Oliver then explains that his life is not perfect, and how he has always cared about her and loved her.

Later, Pete overhears Debbie talking about her pregnancy, and angrily leaves the house on his bicycle. Debbie and Larry pursue him, and after Pete cycles into a car door, he gets into an argument with the driver, who then punches him in the stomach.

Debbie and Larry take Pete to the hospital, where they reconcile, with Larry recognizing that she is the fighter who keeps the family together. Pete further realizes he is actually thrilled about having another child, and reconciles with Debbie.

Sometime later, Pete and Debbie are watching a small concert with Ryan Adams performing. She suggests he sign him to his label and they plan to talk to him as they finish watching the show.

After the main credits roll, there is an extended alternate take of Catherine’s ad-libbing insults during the meeting with Debbie, Pete, and the school principal.

Last Updated: August 20, 2025 at 13:06