If She's Having a Baby were a funnier movie, if the fights were more cleverly written and Bacon and McGovern played them more deftly and lightly, it wouldn't have that unpleasant edge -- seesawing between romance and paranoia.
She's Having a Baby
Man. Woman. Life. Death. Infinity. Tuna casserole. One movie dares to tell it all.
1988 · 1h 46m · PG-13
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by
John Hughes
Overview
Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their parents) expect from them. Do they want babies? Their parents certainly want them to. Is married life all that there is? Things certainly aren't helped by Jake's friend Davis, who always seems to turn up just in time to put a spanner in the works.
Director and cast
- John Hughes Director
- Kevin Bacon as Jefferson 'Jake' Edward Briggs
- Elizabeth McGovern as Kristen 'Kristy' Briggs
- Alec Baldwin as Davis McDonald
- William Windom as Russ Bainbridge
- Holland Taylor as Sarah Briggs
- Cathryn Damon as Gayle Bainbridge
- John Ashton as Ken
- Dan Aykroyd Cast
- Larry Hankin Cast
- Paul Gleason Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
[The film] assumes that boys will be boys but that the mystical act of fatherhood will make a man of you. Trouble with She's Having a Baby is, Hughes believes this without feeling obliged to develop it dramatically.
It's a measure of how little maneuvering room the movie leaves its performers that a lovely, sensitive actress like Elizabeth McGovern makes virtually no impression.
She's Having a Baby wants to be everyone's story, but its hollowness makes it no one's.
McGovern manages to fare better with the cliches thrown at her than Bacon does; but neither has a prayer of scoring at a game whose rules and players might have been dreamed up by a computer.
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