'she's Having a Baby' by John Hughes and Sung by Kate Bush.
Prissy and charming film if somewhat lacking
I like John Hughes a lot, and so naturally I wanted to see She'due south Having a Baby. She's Having a Babe is not Hughes' best motion picture by a long shot, and is not a masterpiece but information technology is a watchable and mannerly movie. It is too short, unevenly paced having the odd dull stretch in the heart, has some weak spots in the script and the story is rather predictable. However, it is nicely filmed, has a beguiling soundtrack, it does have its funny and charming sequences, the direction is bodacious, the ending did get to me and I thought it was beautifully done, and the performances from Kevin Bacon, Kirsty Briggs, Alec Baldwin and the remainder of the bandage are natural and non also forced. Overall, a nice if defective film. 6/ten Bethany Cox
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John Hughes picture
Kristy (Elizabeth McGovern) and Jake Briggs (Kevin Bacon) have doubts getting married. His best friend Davis McDonald (Alec Baldwin) offers to drive his getaway. Instead of a honeymoon, Kristy insists on Jake finishing his degree. The educatee living in New United mexican states does not go well. They exit to return to Chicago. They struggle with unsatisfying jobs, and meddling in-laws. They go a business firm with a mortgage. He starts to write. Davis belittles his suburban married life.
Filmmaker John Hughes tries to extend his range into twenty somethings married couple. In that location is something missing. The comedy feels likewise broad. The characters feel one-dimensional. There are a couple of funny moments. Information technology does demand to decide on how serious or how ridiculous this movie is suppose to exist playing at. There are many dream sequences. The neighborhood lawnmower trip the light fantastic is stupid and the nightclub seductress is serious. They shouldn't exist in the aforementioned pic together. Bacon is a little likewise self-obsessed and McGovern is a fiddling also reserved. They're fine actors but their characters are rarely in a loving tone. They offset scared and it's one long struggle. This movie holds some truths merely it'southward somehow non profound like it wants to be.
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Forget it Jake. This is babe town.
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For longtime sweethearts Elizabeth McGovern and Kevin Salary, family interference in their matrimony. Or is information technology his besides tight bicycle shorts? Fans of Bacon volition marvel at his physique as he stands still exposing his gingerbread which at i bespeak is standing near attention. It's a pretty surprising moment in this PG-rated comedy that is quirky enough in itself without having a rather risque moment, but it is quite memorable and the salary indeed is thickly cut. McGovern, betwixt her memorable roles as Evelyn Nesbitt in "Ragtime" and Lady Cora on TV's "Downton Abbey", is surprisingly normal without the eccentricities of those two characters. Bacon, through Whom The Narrative of the story is told, has very bizarre asides, from the wedding ceremony where he is hearing a preacher saying a agglomeration of very funny vows, and afterward when observing the neighbors mowing the backyard, if utilize it in a hysterically musical style.
The two characters are very likable, going through typical marital issues with interfering in-laws (particularly the persnickedy fathers), Bacon's best friend Alec Baldwin, a beautiful model Bacon keeps seeing in fantasies and the interference of his career. It takes 75 minutes for the baby portion of the plot to erupt, and that leads to a very frantic one-half hour. I would have liked to have seen mothers Cathryn Damon and The netherlands Taylor more what they get here (likewise every bit neighbor Edie McClurg), simply fifty-fifty with a story that has been done over and over, the fashion this picture is done will brand you call up it. I certainly did remember the wedding sequins and the lawn mower sequence from when I showtime saw information technology in the theater, and they hold upwardly as very funny nearly 35 years afterwards. It's sweet and irreverent and certainly the epitome of what has crudely become known as a "chick flick", although the male point of view makes it interesting.
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Beneath par John Hughes film
If '16 Candles' was John Hughes on the way up to his archetype films like 'Pretty in Pink' and 'The Breakfast Club' and so this pic unfortunately is him on the fashion downward.
There's lots of the things we've come to expect from his films, but the move into more serious issues, and a less witty script means that this i isn't as fondly remembered every bit Hughes's previous outings.
Bacon and McGovern do their best, as does Alec Baldwin, but information technology but feels similar there'south a big song missing from the soundtrack, or an iconic moment missing that would have elevated this moving-picture show from beingness boilerplate to something great.
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Underrated John Hughes comedy; fine chemistry between Bacon & McGovern
SHE'Due south HAVING A BABY (1988) *** Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth Mc Govern, Alec Baldwin, William Windom, Cathryn Damon, John Ashton, Edie McClurg, Dennis Dugan. Frequently accurate domestic comedy about newlyweds Bacon and McGovern who finally decide to procreate among the usual barriers including family and money. Smart script and direction by John Hughes with a sharp turn of events by the film's climax with an effectively dramatic birth sequence; I got misty eyed for Salary and the plight of his newborn accentuated past the song "This Adult female's Work" by Kate Bush-league. Wait for the credits with some celebrities coming up with names for the infant.
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Woods expensive, words are cheap......
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Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds, but as they are still young, they are perhaps a flake unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that information technology expects of them.
Things certainly aren't helped by Jake's friend Davis, who always seems to plow up just in time to put a spanner in the works.
And and then there'south the predictability of the title, just equally things were becoming mundane for the couple.
John Hughes has inappreciably always took a pace wrong, and for some, he defined the teen movie in the eighties forever. Merely my gosh, this is a pig of a film.
Once once again, screenwriters in Hollywood call up that everyone is wealthy, or at least has at least wealthy parents, and hither it's blatantly in your face, and the films biggest flaw? In that location is not one likable character in the entire film.
Salary is just a selfish fiddling man who would rather chase his dream than become a family unit human being, and when he finally succumbs to the latter, he resents his wife for the. Bulk of the moving-picture show.
Baldwin pops upwardly every now and again with an insufferable girlfriend to prove Bacon what life would be like if he wasn't married.
McGovern doesn't fare whatsoever meliorate though. I don't know why, only it seems that the writers take just made her a one dimensional maundering waste material of space, and then with whom are nosotros supposed to give our empathy too?
Every bit always with films like this, at that place is a moment in the motion-picture show where McGovern is at risk, so we accept a moment with Salary crying and reminiscing nigh the good times. And what good times are they? Decorating and getting locked out in the rain. Oh the joys of beloved.
Whether its a spousal relationship warning to teens, or Hughes exposing to the masses just how abhorrent yuppies were, it sure is i affair.
Cinematic contraception.
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Skilful Cast Not Ready For Primetime Still.
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While this cast has big names, the script by John Hughes is boilerplate, and the chief cast is merely not experienced enough to bring the script up a level. Kevin Bacon is not mature enough nonetheless to handle this role. Alec Baldwin is forgetable in this one.
The plot of the script is obvious. The best actor in this cast is William Windom, merely he does not get plenty script/part here to show his talents properly. That is the trouble, throughout the film, wealthy characters who are too shallow to care almost in roles screaming for a amend written script.
I watched this one on regular television receiver, and adding commercials does non help. A supposed liberated woman, however she has the old values of wanting to accept a infant. So she goes off the pill and and then later 3 months of not scoring the slam dunk with husband, gets him checked to discover out why. Bacons boxer shorts do not compliment him hither.
Could this be better? The humour definitely is a bit sub-par. Overall, at that place's a lot of cameos by famous folks trying to support a main cast that is short on feel. This picture should have been meliorate.
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Hughes a trivial too flippant
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This is definitely not John Hughes' genre. In his endeavour to tackle this weighty field of study, he has created a brassy, misfired prove about life-time commitments. Hughes just can't stay serious about serious. There is non enough sense of humour in hither to make this a successful comedy, and the poignancy at crucial points is missing (so much potential in this area). Too many scenes shoot wide of the mark.
Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth McGovern are both likable and they make a cute couple, but the former has gone on to stronger roles and the latter; whatever did happen to Elizabeth McGovern?
Chicago is of course the setting, and Hughes employs the usual pop soundtrack (from former "Police" guitarist Stewart Copeland).
PS Stay tuned for the stop credits when a crowd of Hughes' friends drop by.
Monday, Jan 26, 1998 - Video
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Married life from a human being's perspective.
She's Having a Baby is very much like Kevin Bacon's after film, 'He Said, She Said,' in which moments of a story are articulated from the perspective of each gender. But while 'He Said, She Said,' provided humorous views of love and life from both the shovinist male and the over-confident female, 'She's Having a Baby' provides only the perspective of one person: a very nervous and doubting husband. It is interesting to me, at least, every bit there are few movies which dedicate the entire experience of married life solely to the male person perspective, and I suppose that John Hughes, the motion picture's writer and manager, is telling the story from his own personal experiences, fears, expectations, and other approaches to his life as a husband and begetter.
I accept always like John Hughes work, and despite some of the sexism and cliches that the story deals with, it is an entertaining film near newlyweds unsure well-nigh whether getting married was a good idea, only discovering in the end, that despite the obstacles ahead of them, they actually find that married life (and soon, parenthood), tin actually quite a wonderful thing.
Jake Briggs (Bacon) marries his high school sweetheart, Kristi (McGovern), his love at get-go sight. The motion-picture show introduces us to Jake who is preparing himself (and simultaneoulsy doubting himself) to walk down the island and declare himself a married man. Only for Jake, somehow saying I practice, was the indicate of no return, and his human relationship to Kristi (and his perception of her) drastically changes one time they officially deport on together as a married couple. Jake finds disatisfaction with his work as an advert agent (aspiring instead to be a writer, but always being told that it only wasn't going to happen), with the drone life in the suburbs (a typical John Hughes theme), and fifty-fifty gets tempted with indescretions equally he meets a woman at a bar who tests his faithfulness to Kristi.
For Jake, it seems like the single life had a lot more to offer in both independce as well every bit his love for Kristi, fifty-fifty to the point that he tries to convince his available friend, Davis (played past that hubba, hubba role player, Alec Baldwin), that he need not exist single to savour himself. In fact, things commencement to change for Jake, as he starts to abound accustomed to marriage and finds that the situation isn't equally bad every bit he imagined. When his wife Kristi becomes pregnant and there are complications during the pregnancy, Jake is forced to consider whether he would requite it all upwardly. And in that time, he realizes, that he really doesn't detest it at all. That there are things there that he can accommodate (past style of work, we see afterward that he does take it upon himself to do some writing), and with his human relationship to his wife, and hell, fifty-fifty the in-laws. It's hard to say, simply folks who are married and who have gone through that 'moment of truth' at some point in their relationship (if at all), must know how that feels. And from the look on Jake's face, it must feel pretty skillful to realize how lucky a person can exist to share that with somebody else.
There are some problems with the characters, such every bit Kristi e'er been fabricated out as this bossy, detached spouse of Jake's. One viewer wrote that she was oft depicted as selfish, and while I agree that it is an unfair cess of Kristi (who could non have been this mode all the time--you take to sentry the film to come across), it was also meant to exist portrayed from the husbands indicate of viewed. Therefore, we become the subjective view of the husband, and not the objective view of what we may consider Kristi to be (because most the whole flick is told from Jefferson'southward viewpoint).
The story is also stereotypical in some of information technology'southward assertions about marriage and work and the similar. But I call back that the movie still offers some good humor, and is certainly i for John Hughe's fans to see, before he gave up writing and directing teen movies--the 80s films prior to She'south Having a Baby, and went on to brand children and family films--by and large all of his films made after 1989. And fans of Kevin Salary are certain to enjoy the picture show every bit well. It's not fantastic, and I'll admit, I never got through watching it the first time. But I gave information technology a few years and tried again, and though it isn't a groovy movie, it is ane that I would recommend trying out.
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She'due south having an overstuffed baby . . .
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'She'south Having a Baby' is an interesting exercise in the oldest virtually simple kind of story hendered by stupid gimmicky side-plots that pull information technology down like expressionless weight.
At the middle is a pure, honest, likable couple played past Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth McGovern. There aren't 2 more winning personalities in the movies. Bacon has a potent presence and a good personality. The Invaluable Elizabeth McGovern has i of the near 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 moving picture tracks the progression of their first years of marriage from the wedding to their first child. We run into them on their wedding day where Bacon (like the groom in almost every motion-picture show) is a sweating, nervous wreck fearful that he is giving up his freedom.
They move into a condo that is more mortgage and so home. Bacon gets a low-level task with an ad bureau and later a few years the residual of the family hints that it might be fourth dimension to accept a babe. So, the rest of the movie shows their efforts at formulation.
This is all well and good and if the pic had stayed with the simple plot detail that I only described, this would take been a better motion-picture show. 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 and so their wives and wives discuss their husband every bit if they were children. This all culminates in a stupid Busby Berkly-blazon dance sequence involving lawnmowers.
Clichéd characters abound in this film including McGovern'southward parents who absolutely hate their daughter's new married man and bad mouth him at every plough. Another cliche: Bacon's best friend played by Alec Baldwin keeps hitting on McGovern while Bacon keeps having fantasies well-nigh the same beautiful woman and begins to take longings for his bachelor freedom.
On peak of all of that, in that location are silly fantasy moments equally when Bacon finds out that McGovern is pregnant and envisions himself existence hurled screaming toward a brick wall. Or the moment when they get married and the government minister reads off a laundry list of duties that Bacon is to perform in order to brand 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 moving-picture show which are wedged in betwixt the gimmicks. The small romantic moment between the couple are very sweetness and touching. Because these two actors are masters of emotional depth I had no trouble assertive that their were honestly and passionately in dear.
The movie ends with one of the most emotional scenes I tin can remember. A complication arises when McGovern goes into labor and Salary sits in the waiting room. The scene is done so beautifully that I longed for what the residuum of the pic could have been if information technology weren't trying then hard to be cute. 'She's Having a Babe' could accept been an constructive movie had the director had the nerve to trim the fat.
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Surprisingly tiresome and slow for a John Hughes movie, and it somehow gave me a bleak feeling
After watching "Curly Sue" but a few days ago, "She'south Having a Baby" was the only film directed past the belatedly John Hughes which I had not yet seen. This is some other one written, directed, and produced by Hughes. I nevertheless haven't seen every film he ever wrote/produced, merely take now seen all eight of the ones a directed in his career. About of them I've found to be at to the lowest degree pretty good, some of them more than that, and when I finally watched "Curly Sue", I institute that it usually fails in its attempts to exist funny, only does take some fairly gripping drama. Like that picture show, I wasn't expecting this 1 to be that smashing, since it'south some other ane of Hughes' less pop efforts. However, I certainly was expecting information technology to be better than information technology turned out to exist!
Jake and Kristy Briggs are ii immature newlyweds, and after they become married, they move to New Mexico, where Jake studies to get a Masters Degree at graduate schoolhouse, but he actually doesn't like this, then he gives up before he reaches his goal. After this, the ii of them motility back to Chicago, where Jake manages to get a job as an advertising copywriter, after failing to fool his employers with his thoroughly dishonest resume, but however impressing them with it. While working at this job, he also aspires to become a writer. Kristy finds employment every bit a inquiry analyst. With their combined income, Jake and Kristy are able to afford a sizeable firm in the suburbs of Chicago. Unfortunately, their marriage is turning out to be a dysfunctional one. A lot gets in their way, including trouble with Jake and his father-in-law, Russ Bainbridge, and also a visit from Jake'south quondam friend, Davis McDonald, who comes with an unloving sexual partner! As time goes by, Jake and Kristy eventually face problems of a different sort.
Pretty much all aspects of this movie I didn't care for, including the bland characters and the performances from the bandage members who play them. Alec Baldwin as Davis McDonald might be the worst, but nobody really stands out. Kevin Bacon is no exception every bit Jake Briggs, and this character's narration isn't very impressive. Since this is supposed to exist a comedy, I guess the principal problem is the lack of laughs. I did express joy a picayune at times, the job interview for instance, but the humour definitely more often fails than succeeds, and goose egg is hilarious here. I especially didn't intendance for the part where Jake is laughed at by everyone in the waiting room. As well as laughs, John Hughes was known to accept poignancy in his films, and there definitely are moments in this one that are supposed by be poignant, just they failed to take hold of me. It's not a very well written story, and watching this miserable marriage at dissimilar points through the years did not prove me whatsoever reason why it should continue going. Eventually, I found that the picture show was getting a picayune frustrating to sit through, every bit it was pretty tedious.
John Hughes wrote and produced more than he directed in his film career, simply of the eight movies he wrote AND directed (most of which he produced every bit well), many viewers might say that "Curly Sue" is the weakest. Still, later watching "She's Having a Baby", I disagree. His 1991 film may exist inferior to nearly of the other films in his directing credits, but I would say it is at least superior to this 1988 effort, fifty-fifty if that'due south not the near popular opinion. Also, of all the films Hughes directed, this was the second one in which the protagonists were not high school students, the first of those being "Planes, Trains & Automobiles", starring John Candy and Steve Martin. That moving picture is both hilarious and heartwarming, with outstanding characters and cast performances, only this ane doesn't have any of those qualities. It basically seemed similar the contrary of its predecessor to me in more than 1 way, as it is overall bland, dour, unfunny, and listless, without any very notable characters/performances. With the way it made me experience, I cannot question why this motion-picture show doesn't become as much recognition equally a number of other pictures which Hughes fabricated in the aforementioned decade as this one.
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Charismatic Stars and Imaginative Ideas meld effortlessly...
SHE'South HAVING A BABY was an imaginative and charming 1988 one-act that follows a young couple from courting through parenthood via some amusing vignettes and clever fantasy sequences that effectively intermission the fourth wall and constantly remind u.s.a. that we are watching a motion picture, simply this idea is prepare up from the get-go through the narration and internal fantasies of pb graphic symbol Jefferson "Jake" Briggs (Kevin Bacon, in his near appealing post-Footloose office). Becon's chemistry with the lovely Elizbath McGovern (any happened to her?) is undeniable and early into the film you really find yourself rooting for this couple. Alec Baldwin had one of his best early on roles here as Jake's slightly slimy college buddy. There a lot of very funny and imaginative scenes in the film, which are mostly a product of Jake'due south mind, which I constitute kind of novel for a John Hughes picture...love the production number with the backyard mowers and Jake's in-laws coaching him on what to practice during sex, non to mention's Jake'south internal re-writing of his hymeneals vows. Both Holland Taylor and the tardily Cathryn Damon score as Jake and Christy'south moms and William Windom is amusing equally Christy's dad, who cuts Jake no slack whatsoever. I think I liked this movie amend than the boilerplate viewer...perhaps because I really similar Kevin Bacon and he'south practically in every scene, but I think fifty-fifty for non-Bacon fans, there are smiles, chuckles, and warm fuzzy feelings to be found by taking in the story of Jake and Kristy Briggs.
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pass on this 'baby'
Back in 1988 information technology must've seemed like Armegeddon was nigh as...John Hughes was actually gonna write a semi-serious picture! Now, a year before he had veered into non-teen territory with "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. But had kept the laughs abiding enough that it really wasn't a film most adults. Simply afterwards a 5-yr whirlwind run of success, which featured seven of the more memorable films of the decade, he was able to get greenlighted his pseudo-life story. Die difficult fans of him like myself will easily spot how this mirrored his hug(h)e ascent. An bumming newlywed (Bacon) goes through the usual pains of accepting adult responsibilities, becomes an advertising-man, really wants to be a writer, and somehow makes the dream work. All the while cliches abound around him; a father-in-law who hates him; neighbors who yap endlessly most their lawnmowers; and a wife who is pressuring him to exist a father. A amend title might've been "He's Having a Cow", equally the film is more about Bacon than annihilation else. As someone else mentioned, the baby portion of the pic doesn't happen till well-nigh the cease, and after it's born, hither come the end credits. Hughes scores hither and there with this, just mostly it's jumbled, all likewise traveled ground we've seen in other movies. Plus his flights of fancy, where he incorporates incredibly out of place daydream segments that merely misfile. The big lawnmower sequence had me perplexed; was this Bacon getting an idea for an advertisement, or him hopped upwards on something? Someone else also brought up that McGovern's grapheme is hardly familiarized with the audience, and when she is, tin be overbearing or loud and aroused. And you could tell Hughes was going for an ethereal moment of drama in the end every bit he has Bacon soaked in white light with creepy music playing, as he waits for his wife'southward delivery. But it doesn't come off because nosotros inappreciably care for these characters who have meandered through a dopey chance until that point. Even the familiar glory faces during the end credits are disappointing, every bit none of them take it seriously and offer up one idiotic proper name later another (Aykroyd's alien monikers are particularly stupid and painfully unfunny). For meliorate expectant baby fare, check out Hughes' graduate Molly Ringwald in "For Keeps", a much amend (and very Hughes-ish) film on the bailiwick.
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Underrated Hughes Film Which Needs Another Chance
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The title says it all: "She's Having a Baby." Just there'due south more to the story than the title says.
As the film opens, we meet Jake Briggs (Kevin Salary, who likewise narrates)on the verge of marrying Kristen (Elizabeth McGovern),with his all-time human being/friend Davis (Alec Baldwin)at his side. Jake and Kristen are babyhood sweethearts, but Jake is a chip frightened and confused as to the steps he'due south about to take. He knows that once he steps into the firm of marriage, he has to grow up.
One time married, Jake (Who wants to be a writer)takes a task that he feels will beat out him and has to deal with the constant butting in of his father-in-law Russ (William Windom). Kristen is being as supportive as she can (And just a tad flake whiny), but Jake is condign more and more than frightened of his part equally married man. His friend Davis raises doubts well-nigh being married, his mind fantasizes about events in his life (Like the neighborhood doing a musical number with lawnmowers)and about a mystery girl that he met in his dreams, who actually does be.
Things and so start to turn when his wife tells him that she stopped taking the pill some fourth dimension ago (Causing him to fantasize well-nigh being creamed into a wall at full speed). But information technology's at the moment when she tells him that she'southward meaning that he actually grows up. Equally he sits in the waiting room in tears (there are complications during delivery),reflecting on the expert times between them (And Kate Bush-league's "This Woman'due south Work" playing in the background), we finally see Jake become an adult:wanting his wife and child to be o.1000. and seeing the emotions within him.
A box office failure when it was beginning released, "She'due south Having A Infant" should be given another chance. Bacon and McGovern's performances work well together. Even Alec Baldwin (In his incredibly sexy days)does a practiced chore equally the incredibly selfish friend who tells Jake to get have fun while making passes at his married woman.
Give it a look.
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The Hughes serial continues...
Then, I gauge if I were at gunpoint, I would choose this as being my second favorite motion-picture show in the Hughes lineup. He has fabricated and then many good movies, it'southward hard to pick just one equally your favorite, but this is definitely a close second to The Breakfast Guild.
Kevin Bacon plays a author just out of college trying to support his newly wedded married woman, while at the aforementioned time working for some sort of advertizement agency, and trying to write his first book. Throughout the movie, it's him narrarating his life from the start of his wedding until the terminate of the picture...
His wife, however, decides that she'southward gear up for a baby. He on the other mitt, does not really become as excited about the idea equally she does.
The unabridged movie is prepare from his point of view, and he sees the world through his optics, and a lot of 'what ifs' commencement to boggle his listen. His defoliation and dry humor make it a great classic, and a great watch for anyone. A fun piece of movie trivia...in the movie 'Trains, Planes, and Automobiles' Steve Martin's wife in the flick, lays awake late ane night watching a movie on T.V. If yous listen closely to what they're saying, information technology's a scene from 'She's Having a Baby'. The scene when Kevin Bacon and his on screen wife are having a fight. A fun petty movie fact for you.
I hope y'all'll encounter information technology if you oasis't. And if you already did, you lot're smart. And if you saw it and didn't like information technology, well, then....there we are.
I requite this flick, a 10 out of 10. A cracking movie, to be seen past all!
And that's the end of my review.
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A truly delightful experience
Seeing this flick once more after several years, really showed me what a lovely uncomplicated experience it was. Kevin Salary and Elizabeth McGovern were perfect choices for the roles of new Hubby and Wife, not helped at all past the treacherous Alec Baldwin. The story was interesting all the manner through to the very end, and we had fun, pathos and dear all wrapped into xc minutes or and then, but I felt Kevin Bacon carried the film, and showed even in those early days of his career the keen potential that eventually became real in his "Mystic River" operation, as well every bit others similar "The River Wild", etc. I cannot understand why it did not do much better at the Box Office.
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These are the days of our lives...
This film in a foreign way hits me as very realistic. Information technology tells a completely normal story of completely normal people living a rather uneventful life.
On the other hand we have Cody (Kevin Salary) having those weird (and hilarious) visions all the time... visions of a nighttime future, of humiliating experiences, of the things to come. I like this motion-picture show a whole lot because it gives me an thought of the things to (hopefully) come up in my life equally well...
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He'south having a quater-life crisis.
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I can agree with other reviewers that a lot of this movie's issues at the box function probably had to do with mis-marketing. The championship makes it sound like the pic is nearly a woman having a baby. That's only one plot point. This movie is well-nigh a guy trying to figure out if he really wants to settle down, fifty-fifty while he is in the process of really settling down. Some of the well-nigh entertaining sequences take identify fully in Jake'south (Kevin Bacon) imagination every bit he projects on the rather surreal suburban situation he finds himself in. Some of the most moving sequences are about the title situation, including possibly the all-time match of a cute pop song to the action taking identify on screen (which, incredibly, was written post production exactly for those scenes by Karen Bush and yet nonetheless stands entirely on its own). The problem, though, as well the fact that the championship alludes to something that doesn't happen until way late in the plot and is not given much screen-time, is that Jake is kind of a cocky-involved doofus. It is very difficult to sympathise with him sometimes, although Bacon charms and tries his all-time. The character as written has a fleck of the aforementioned problem that Ferris Bueller equally written has: is this guy for real? But that late plot point comes around to save the movie in the end. Information technology's a watchable motion-picture show, but I would non call information technology this director's greatest.
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Light fluffy 80'southward nostalgia with great soundtrack
John Hughes films had some of the best soundtracks always, or more than correctly gave rise to the all-time albums based on soundtracks. The Pretty in Pink album is 1 of the greatest compilations of 80'southward music made in the 80'south. It was edgy stuff dorsum then and still sounds remarkably electric current today.
The music in "She's having a baby" is most equally skillful. Kate Bush'southward "This Woman'southward Work" is i of those rare songs that was so beautiful and haunting that I can wink dorsum to exactly where I heard it kickoff. It is so universal and timeless that a muscular 6 foot five, 250 pound Afro-American human being could sing information technology on American Idol 23 years later and bring tears to the judges eyes. The movie is worth seeing merely for the concluding scene, where this vocal plays while Kevin Bacon is anxiously waiting for discussion about his wife and baby.
The residue of it is very playful and fluffy and especially for those of us that lived through those times, quite enjoyable. Younger viewers might get an appreciation for how innocent and naive people were back then. Particularly fun was seeing Alec Baldwin in his pretty male child grease-ball stage. And unlike Pretty in Pink, the music in the soundtrack really forms a big part of the story - and did I tell you how good that soundtrack is?
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Entertaining movie near family and life
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"She's having a Baby" touches upon lots of problems faced by immature Americans slipping into settled, suburban, family life.
Bacon plays Jake, the aspiring writer who is forced to have a mundane chore to assist pay the bills. He grapples with nagging in-laws, family needs, his ain personal and career needs, onetime friends.
This movie is great in capturing many of the emotions of a newly-wed hubby. I personally enjoy movies that apply an "imagination-out-of-control" style. Some of these scenes revealing Jake'southward fears and desires are hilarious.
Bacon does a fine job himself, playing a sort of goofy hubby learning the ropes of suburban America. Alec Baldwin plays Jake's sleazy bestfriend, a abiding reminder of the wildman, swinger life Jake used to take in college and high school, in sharp contrast with the square lifestyle he leads now.
The movie fails, still, to adequately characterize Kristi, Jake wife, played by Elizabeth McGovern.
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Towards the end of the motion-picture show, Kristi'southward life is endangered past a childbirth gone wrong. The audition is supposed to share in Jake'south anguish equally he paces the hospital waiting room. But prior to this point, the movie hasn't really developed Kristi enough for there to be any connexion betwixt her and the audience. In fact, I'm non sure if the role was written this fashion or information technology was just McGovern'south acting style, just Kristi oft comes off every bit cold and selfish. Throughout most of the picture show, she has this nasty scowl on her confront and she often seems unsympathetic or insensitive to Jake.
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Overall, "She'southward having a Baby" is an enjoyable, funny motion-picture show, and I think many viewers will be able to relate to it.
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So distressing!
This is a wonderful moving-picture show. Information technology is a mixture between Comedy and drama. There were many times when I wanted to cry. This motion-picture show is John Hughes at his best since The Breakfast Lodge. The eighty's seemed to be a great decade for movies past John Hughes Similar She's having a baby, Breakfast club, Ferris Bueller'due south twenty-four hours off and Xvi Candles. The only thing I constitute strange of this movie is the fact that at that place were no talks of babies untill nigh 45 minutes into the film. All in All WELL DONE!
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The title is incorrect
A movie called "She'due south Having a Baby" should give the titular grapheme something to do other than wear the pregnancy pad and human activity bourgeois. Nigh movies in the belatedly 1980s, including Betsy's Wedding and Pretty Woman, were really about the male lead actor rather than the titular characters. I tin forgive them that, out of nostalgia if nothing else. But an actress as perceptive and talented as Elizabeth McGovern deserved more than than this part gave her.
As for comparing it to the before films in the John Hughes ouevre ... hey, everybody has to abound upwards sometime. As someone who was eighteen when "Xvi Candles" came out, I was a trivial old for his movies just enjoyed them nonetheless. I wasn't prepare to be having a baby in 1988, just I felt he was proceeding with the generational coterie at a believable stride.
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Fun and enjoyable. Bacon is a blast hither.
It's difficult not to like this John Hughes movie which explores the relationship betwixt Jefferson Briggs (Bacon) and Kristy (McGovern) from their wedding twenty-four hours till their babe'south birth. The movie centers effectually how Bacon matures to become a responsible family homo. The picture is portrayed through the eyes of new graduate Briggs and the audition moves along with his fears, plight and fortunes. Although not entirely original, there are moments throughout that yous will sympathise and laugh along with, mainly because we all went through this before. This is one of Hughes' definitive films from the 1980s and the music accompanying the movie is swell, from Gene Loves Jezebel to Everything Simply The Daughter and Kate Bush. Salary is hilarious and McGovern gives an understated but effective functioning as the married woman determined to accept a babe. Alec Baldwin is brilliant as Davis McDonald, the devilish best friend of Bacon who tries to dissuade him out of spousal relationship. There are genuinely funny moments that pepper this movie throughout and makes it really delightful. There are the "high-brow" critics who slag this movie off. Don't be influenced by their views. This is an endearing and enjoyable moving picture.
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I'm having a hemorrhage
I recently watched Trains, Planes and Automobiles, i of my favorite John Hughes films, when someone mentioned this moving-picture show to me. I thought, how accept a seen and then many John Hughes films, so many times over the years, and overlooked this one. So, i fabricated it a point to watch it. Only and so did I understand how this flick went nether my radar for so long. This film, without a doubt, is the worst John Hughes film I have ever seen. I found it slow, irksome, even depressing, and without the charisma that makes John Hughes films unique. There were niggling to no redeeming qualities in any of the characters or even the sub characters. I didn't dislike any of them, except perhaps the father in law, but I didn't particularly like them either. Everything quaint or humorous seemed to autumn flat and felt very past the numbers. So now, it's checked off of my John Hughes saucepan listing, only I don't always plan to sit through it a second time.
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An absolute precious stone of a film.
I would go along tape to say that John Hughes' "She's Having A Babe" is by far the best movie he'south ever done -- and this from the man responsible for those giddy teen comedies from the '80's (i.due east. BREAKFAST CLUB, SIXTEEN CANDLES, FERRIS BUELLER'Due south Twenty-four hours OFF).
Information technology's ironic that his best work would be about grownups, or in this example, growing up. Jake and Kristi (played superbly by Kevin Salary and Elizabeth McGovern), are indeed, your average married couple going through the same problems almost married people do, and nearly kids their historic period would be sidestepping. Only Hughes adds more dimension and more insight, and in spite of the laughs (which in that location are, by the way) and fifty-fifty some dizzy sequences,he yet wrings out an air of truth.
Sadly, this film flopped at the B.O. in it's initial release back in 1988, merely and so why carp about performance. "SHAB" is a repose gem of a film to exist appreciated by the few that appreciate expert filmmaking.
Grade: A-
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