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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

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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.

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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.

Michael Wilmington, Los Angeles Times
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[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.

Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
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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.

Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel
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She's Having a Baby wants to be everyone's story, but its hollowness makes it no one's.

Dave Kehr, Chicago Tribune
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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.

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

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