She's Having a Baby

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Having delved repeatedly into the world of teenage joys and sorrows, from Sixteen Candles to Ferris Bueller's Day Off, writer-director John Hughes took a step into adulthood (or some facsimile of it) with She's Having a Baby. Peppered with whimsical asides and busy voice-over observations, the movie is shamelessly fun to watch, even if it doesn't add up to anything especially profound. Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth McGovern are newlyweds struggling through the tribulations of a youthful marriage. Along with the usual uncertainties, Bacon is sacrificing his dreams of becoming a writer to work in an ad agency, and his best supposed pal (Alec Baldwin, just before stardom) tries to seduce his wife. Hughes may have been reflecting on his own past job in advertising, and maybe that explains why the movie plays like a superficial, if entertaining, TV commercial. --Robert Horton

Customer Reviews:

An overlooked 80's classic.......2007-07-21

This movie holds a special place in my heart. When we were living together, my then fiancee-now wife, and I found it on cable, and we saw so many parallels between the characters and ourselves that we just kept watching it. The movie helped me to understand that what we were feeling about life, and marriage, and eventually kids was normal and on some level, foolish. The movie is whimsical and at the same time deals with the anxieties in a normal, non-glamorous way-as if we are watching real people-but I do love the lawnmower "ballet".
The soundtrack is killer, especially Kate Bush & Gene Love Jezebel.
When our first was born via C-section, "This Woman's Work" just kept playing over and over in my head-just a beautiful and poignant song that just captures that moment perfectly.

One of my All Time Favorite Movies.......2007-07-09

This was a movie I watched over 10 years ago, but it has stayed with me and remains as one of my best-loved movies.

For all of us who have made the transition from adulthood to marriage to fatherhood and looking for that elusive Dummies' guidebook to help us along the way, this movie will have great resonance for you.

The inspired pairing of Kevin Bacon with Elizabeth McGovern as the happy couple and the incredibly suave Alec Baldwin as the covetous "best friend" sets the show up for an often hilarious but perceptive view of life and the choices we make. Look out for a great song by Kate Bush, written specially for the movie, played out against the backdrop of an anguish-ridden Kevin Bacon waiting outside the operating theater as Elizabeth McGovern undergoes emergency surgery. Don't miss this move!

She's Having a Baby.......2007-07-06

It was just like it was advertised, some parts very funny all other parts very dramatic. It was a well thought of movie. The best part of it all was when they were getting married. From then on it was one halarious and dramitic piece after another. A very well planned movie and well thought of.

She's Having a Baby.......2007-05-07

A movie we have always loved. It is hilarious and poignant. Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth McGovern are awesome!

Zany Fun.......2007-01-24

This story follows two young people who get married and whose lives do not go as they planned. They had great plans but find themselves in the "real" grind of life trying to make a living. He wants to be a great writer but has had to settle for a job writing ad copy. They also have to deal with in laws who prove to be a sore trial. He is worried about making ends meet and she is worried about having a baby.

Many of the situations depicted in this film are only mildly laughable in and of themselves. What makes this film fun is the way they are depicted from the point of view of the man with a lot of imagination thrown in for good measure. What is shown on the screen is not what happens but what he daydreams/has nightmares about. Sometimes this is as subtle as rearranged marriage vows and sometimes it is an over the top musical song and dance number with the neighborhood lawn mowers.

This is not art, it is just fun.

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She's having a baby

Manufacturer: Paramount
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

Widescreen
Comedy
DVD

ASIN: B000NE6174

Product Description

Last year at this time, Jake and Kristi were two crazy single kids in love. Now they're two crazy married adults in transition.

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An overlooked 80's classic
One of my All Time Favorite Movies
She's Having a Baby
She's Having a Baby
Zany Fun

She's Having a Baby [Region 2]
Starring: Kevin Bacon , Elizabeth McGovern , Alec Baldwin , William Windom , and Holland Taylor
Director: John Hughes
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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