She's Having a Baby
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.
Critics Sentiment
Kristy experiences dangerous breech birth with complications
Davis arrives unexpectedly with disapproved girlfriend causing tension
The film's biggest swing occurs between the creative lawnmower fantasy sequence and the subsequent baby pressure storyline, dropping 2.5 points as Hughes shifts from imaginative comedy to predictable domestic drama.
The film starts promisingly with wedding charm and peaks creatively with Hughes' signature fantasy sequences like the lawnmower scene. It struggles through a predictable middle section weighed down by cliched plot points and an insufferable best friend character. However, it recovers significantly in the final act with a genuinely moving and well-executed birth sequence that brings emotional weight to Jake's character arc.
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Kevin Bacon
Jake Briggs
Elizabeth McGovern
Kristy Briggs
Alec Baldwin
Davis McDonald
William Windom
Russell Bainbridge
Holland Taylor
Sarah Briggs
Cathryn Damon
Gayle Bainbridge
John Ashton
Ken
Larry Hankin
Hank
Paul Gleason
Howard
Dennis Dugan
Bill
James Ray
Jim Briggs
Reba McKinney
Grandmother
Bill Erwin
Grandfather
Anthony Mockus Sr.
Minister
Edie McClurg
Lynn
Nancy Lenehan
Cynthia
Steve Tannen
Man With Bike
Neal Bacon
Young Jake
Laure Aronica
Young Kristy
Valerie Breiman
Erin
Crew
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