BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Reptileenbu Did you people see the same film I saw?

Dorathen Better Late Then Never

Roxie The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Duncan Spencer Another one of John Hughes classics.I maybe in my 40's but this has to be one of my favourite films. It manages to hit every emotional note from being amusing to being a little sad. I think I'd even still love this film when I'm in my 90's and sat in an old peoples home. Top draw and top bananas.They certainly don't make like them like they used to. I'm now padding out the rest of the text as I have to meet the 10 line minimum. So please excuse the following text as I'm going to waffle on and on and on................. and on and on and on and on and on. Maybe I need to go on a little more, but just a little more to keep people happy.

The_Film_Cricket 'She's Having a Baby' is an interesting exercise in the oldest most simple kind of story hendered by stupid gimmicky side-plots that pull it down like dead weight.At the center is a pure, honest, likable couple played by Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth McGovern. There aren't two more winning personalities in the movies. Bacon has a strong presence and a good personality. The Invaluable Elizabeth McGovern has one of the most honest faces that I have seen in a movie. When she says she loves him, she has a certain way of holding herself that leaves absolutely no doubts in my mind.The movie tracks the progression of their first years of marriage from the wedding to their first child. We meet them on their wedding day where Bacon (like the groom in almost every movie) is a sweating, nervous wreck fearful that he is giving up his freedom.They move into a condo that is more mortgage then home. Bacon gets a low-level job with an ad agency and after a few years the rest of the family hints that it might be time to have a baby. So, the rest of the movie shows their efforts at conception.This is all well and good and if the movie had stayed with the simple plot detail that I just described, this would have been a better movie. The problem is that it keeps throwing in a lot of distracting, unnecessary plot baggage. For example, after the two move to the suburbs, they are surrounded by the usual gallery of suburbanites including the men who are more interested in their lawn mowers then their wives and wives discuss their husband as if they were children. This all culminates in a stupid Busby Berkly-type dance sequence involving lawnmowers.Clichéd characters abound in this film including McGovern's parents who absolutely hate their daughter's new husband and bad mouth him at every turn. Another cliché: Bacon's best friend played by Alec Baldwin keeps hitting on McGovern while Bacon keeps having fantasies about the same beautiful woman and begins to have longings for his bachelor freedom.On top of all of that, there are silly fantasy moments as when Bacon finds out that McGovern is pregnant and envisions himself being hurled screaming toward a brick wall. Or the moment when they get married and the minister reads off a laundry list of duties that Bacon is to perform in order to make her happy. Or the typical panic-stricken tailspin that Bacon goes into when McGovern goes into labor.This is a case of less is more. I liked the quiet moments in this movie which are wedged in between the gimmicks. The small romantic moment between the couple are very sweet and touching. Because these two actors are masters of emotional depth I had no trouble believing that their were honestly and passionately in love.The movie ends with one of the most emotional scenes I can remember. A complication arises when McGovern goes into labor and Bacon sits in the waiting room. The scene is done so beautifully that I longed for what the rest of the film could have been if it weren't trying so hard to be cute. 'She's Having a Baby' could have been an effective movie had the director had the nerve to trim the fat.

juiceman10712 I feel like the point of the film, the morals learned and the entire narrative structure is lost on most.The film is the REtelling of a man (Kevin Bacon) and his immaturity to his marriage and refusal to grow up. The weird dream sequences show this visually and since it's being told to us, these represent exactly what he felt at the time. We never see his happy moments that are only revealed in the finale because at the time, he didn't notice them so we are denied them to be put in his shoes. It can be confusing the first time you watch it may feel kind of disjointed but it makes sense in the end.Because the film was created this way, the montage in the final moments is heart wrenching as we see Bacon go trough his transformation and realization.This was Hughes' attempt to break out of his brat pack films into serious drama and while I wouldn't say it's award worthy, it's easily one of his best films and most certainly his most underrated.

tedm-8 Good movie, particularly if your just married or are planning to get married. It suffers from lack of character development however, typical of a lot of these writer-director made movies; not enough feedback in the writing process. It would have been a much better movie if it was a 1/2 hour longer. There are some inconsistencies, also. Jake is a writer and you would expect that a writer would be a deeper thinker than his character, Jake only comes to a reconciliation of himself after events happen to him, rather than before. The movie would have been much better if Kristies character had been more developed. Adding some scenes between her and a close girlfriend to develop her character better would be the way to do that. She comes across in the movie as somewhat of a bitch, since none of her motivations for doing anything are explained - what attracted her to Jake wasn't even explained in the movie, which is pretty strange considering they are newlyweds.