She's Having a Baby |  | Director: John Hughes
Actors: Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth McGovern, Alec Baldwin, William Windom, Holland Taylor
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  54 reviews
Sales Rank: 4123
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 106 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: D320274D
ISBN: 0792167007
UPC: 097363202745
EAN: 9780792167006
ASIN: B00004YNIW
Theatrical Release Date: February 5, 1988
Release Date: November 21, 2000
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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
Product Description
A very young couple find their dreams of a perfect life in a perfect house have turned into the traditional marital nightmares, further complicated by the news of an impending addition to the family.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 13-MAY-2003
Media Type: DVD
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 54
 classic 80's movie January 8, 2010
wahoonut (Virginia)
This is a great movie for young married couples. My wife and I first saw this in the late 80's before we got married in 1990. After that, we would watch it with each stage of our young lives as we had children. Now after 20 years of marriage and many different experiences, this movie still holds a fond spot in our hearts and it brings back all of those early memories. Buy it, you'll love it too!
 80's style 80's drama, todays heart September 22, 2009
Phillip A. Kenyon (CT, USA)
This movie was heartwarming, funny, stylish & yet also had a slight 'brat pack' feel with some angsty "we're really adults now, OMG" moments.
If you like Kevin Bacon, this is a good movie, but if you don't, don't worry. Its not just about him. Elizabeth McGovern was really good & you where able to see some fun moments.
"She's Having a Baby"...and lets us watch! July 24, 2009
K.T. May (New York)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Kevin Smith, of Jay and Silent Bob fame, lauded this film as one of his favorite John Hughes films. He has good taste!
"She's Having a Baby" is a darling film about two young kids going through the typical motions of getting married, going to college, buying a house, having a baby and ultimately, growing up. We open at their wedding, seeing Kevin Bacon's character, Jake Briggs, trying to cope with his fear of geting married and growing up. Alec Baldwin plays his best friend, Davis, who is constantly trying to remind Jake of the free life he could be living if he wasn't tied down with the ol' ball and chain. He tells him they could leave now, he could forget the whole thing, just say the word! Jake truly loves Kristi, (Elizabeth McGovern's character), and chooses her over the bachelor lifestyle that Davis enjoys because he knows that type of life is not all it's cracked up to be and "there's more to life than getting laid."
Kristi is obviously the more mature person in the relationship, as we can see when her and Jake go to a club and Kristi is not having as good a time as Jake. We can see it all just from her expression that this was probably one of their old haunts and she grew out of it. We know that Jake probably convinced her to go and she just went along with it for his sake. When Jake leaves Kristi to head to the bathroom, someone tries to ask her out, but we can tell from her body language that she says no because she is happily married. Jake, on the other hand, is trying to cope with temptation from the pretty blonde who is flirting with him across the club and who we meet again a couple of times throughout the film.
We watch as Jake tries to secure a job that will pay him enough to support himself and Kristi while trying to pursue his true dream of being a writer in his spare time. After he has been working for a while, Kristi finally decides that she is ready for a family without consulting Jake first, which leads to some very funny scenes that play out in Jake's imagination. Problems arise later on in the film when Davis tries to seduce Kristi, Kristi can't get pregnant and a heartbreaking moment when things don't look good for them as a family.
Ultimately, this movie shows us how two people can make a relationship work, despite all the outside influence that is trying to bring them down, from money troubles and family stress to temptation to stray and anything else you can imagine having raining down on your relationship. You feel good after watching this movie, like there truly is hope in the simplicity of true love in the face of doubt.
A great side benefit to this film is its soundtrack. There are some lesser known tracks from Everything But the Girl and Love & Rockets, and some cute tracks like the title track by Dave Wakeling and "You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby" by Kirsty MacColl. There is also a scene in the movie which features Kate Bush's "This Woman's Work" that is a real tear-jerker. Hughes likes to play around with montages in this film and each one is good at evoking emotion from the audience.
 It's gooood March 29, 2009
Shawna (seattle, WA)
Oldies really are goodies sometimes. Good light movie for a rainy afternoon. Really get a kick out of the lawn mower scene. How many times have you stepped outside just to see everyone else was mowing their laws just then too. :D
Birth scene was very touching. Well done.
Wonderful Movie, Flaws and All February 17, 2009
Ben G
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is one of those movies that is a collection of both wonderful and lousy elements, but the good ultimately overwhelms the bad. The basic story of a young married couple is a heartfelt winner with laughs and real-life truth aplenty. The chemistry between Jake (Kevin Bacon) and Kristi (Elizabeth McGovern) is amazing, and the terrific soundtrack adds to the movie at every turn.
Unfortunately, the writing is uneven and often clumsy. Throughout the movie, Jake is confused about what he wants out of life, yet the viewer is left confused, too. Jake's longing for "something else" in life is left so undefined that the viewer can't really relate to his angst. Jake's narration continually refers to life "closing in on him" and such, yet it appears things are going fairly well for him, so why the heartburn? One keeps waiting for a big scene where Jake is finally able to enunciate what his problem is, but it never happens.
The worst element of the film by far is the character of Davis (Alec Baldwin), Jake's best friend from high school. Jake is immature, but basically a nice guy. But Davis is portrayed as such an unredeemable jerk (Baldwin basically just had to be himself here) that it is nearly impossible to ever see how these two could have ever stood to be around each other, much less have the brother-like relationship it is claimed they have. He shows up in three scenes, and he's a bigger jerk each time. During his third scene, he convinces Kristi to give him a "goodnight kiss" (totally unbelievable), only to be rebuffed when he tries to take things further. After spurning his advances, Kristi informs him that she won't tell Jake about the matter because "you have your good points." Really? Which ones?
While the film is highly cynical toward marriage and family in many ways -- bickering parents, prying parents-in-law, squaresville suburbs inhabited by men obsessed with their lawn mowers, etc. -- it in the end affirms the marital relationship by showing its redeeming power in the lives of Kristi and Jake. Funny, poignant, and well-acted, this movie will stay with you for years after viewing it. Unlike romantic comedies that show how a couple formed then leaves you there in the puppy-love bliss uncertain of how things turn out long-term, this movie explores what happens after the lifetime vows are made. When it's over, there is no doubt in the viewer's mind that this is a union which will stand the test of time. In this day and age, that is something worth cheering.
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