She's Having a Baby

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She's Having a Baby

PG-13

1988

1h 45m

Comedy

Drama

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Jake (Kevin Bacon) and Kristy Briggs (Elizabeth McGovern) have made the leap from high school sweethearts to newlyweds, but married life is not what Jake expected. While he fantasizes about a dream girl and envies the lifestyle of his single best friend (Alec Baldwin), Kristy is ready to have a baby. Instead of sharing this with Jake, she opts to secretly stop taking birth control. However, Kristy comes clean after failing to become pregnant, prompting Jake to go to a fertility clinic.

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Critics Consensus

Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth McGovern struggle to sustain a spark in She's Having a Baby, a blasé adult romance that lacks the specificity and style of writer-director John Hughes' more successful forays into teenage angst.

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Bob Thomas

Associated Press

04/03/2019

3/4

Hughes has supplied some bright, even brilliant touches in dealing with the traditional cliches.

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Michael Wilmington

Los Angeles Times

06/04/2014

If She's Having a Baby were a funnier movie, if the fights were more cleverly written and Bacon and McGovern played them more deftly and lightly, it wouldn't have that unpleasant edge -- seesawing between romance and paranoia.

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William Thomas

Empire Magazine

06/04/2014

3/5

By turns amusing and exasperating, it takes its time getting to the "Life is what you make it" point, but it's sweet.

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Akos Peterbencze

The Screen

07/25/2023

...the reason the film's intimate and emotional ending works so well (despite a hazy and disorganized plot that didn’t necessarily lay out a plausible road to its climax convincingly) is Hughes’s contentment with his own life.

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Rene Jordan

El Nuevo Herald (Miami)

06/28/2022

Stubbornly inert. [Full review in Spanish]

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Bill Chambers

Film Freak Central

03/03/2022

1.5/4

...I assumed the film's subject matter was too adult for 13-year-old me (and it was), but...I've decided that when it comes to She's Having a Baby, "it's not me, it's you" suffices.

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Steve B

@RT77564365 Jul 27

Poor acting and stupid dream sequences ruined this movie. One of John Hughes worst for sure. Just boring and cheesy.

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Tyler P.

@TylerPhoenixMD Nov 24

Scores are low but this is a classic comedy! I really enjoyed the original bits through the movie. Everyone acting was on point for what it was.

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Stephen C

@bob25009 07/23/2025

Funny in 1 .75 hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The USA grossed over $14,400,000.00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Jeff M

@jeffmarshallmovieblogger 02/11/2024

This is probably the least successful of the John Hughes product that came out through the 80s, which is somewhat surprising as it would seem in theory to have the most potential. It would seem that Hughes' ability to write interesting, three dimensional teenage characters stopped once they turned into adults. There is nothing fresh or original here, nothing you couldn't find in an average sitcom. Bacon does well with the material, but McGovern feels lost and unable to rise to the occasion of creating a character with any interest whatsoever. And considering the title of the movie, there is precious little dedicated to the baby - it almost seems like an afterthought. A dramatic 180 degree shift in tone at the climax of the movie feels unearned and maudlin, even though it's the only time anything close to true emotion happens. These are likable and talented actors, including Baldwin in one of his very first film roles, but they can't breathe life into characters that are more caricature than human.

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Chris V

@RT44511144 07/29/2023

A great "becoming an adult" movie. One of John Hugh's hidden classics. This movie does not get the credit it deserves.

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thiago s

@Thiagostone 11/14/2022

Filme fraco, o roteiro é fraco, o filme coloca um casal que enfrenta problemas de relacionamento antes da chegada do bebê da mulher, o filme tem cenas fracas, mesmo com kevin bacon sendo o protagonista, o filme continua fraco e eu não recomendo esse filme.

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Synopsis

Jake (Kevin Bacon) and Kristy Briggs (Elizabeth McGovern) have made the leap from high school sweethearts to newlyweds, but married life is not what Jake expected. While he fantasizes about a dream girl and envies the lifestyle of his single best friend (Alec Baldwin), Kristy is ready to have a baby. Instead of sharing this with Jake, she opts to secretly stop taking birth control. However, Kristy comes clean after failing to become pregnant, prompting Jake to go to a fertility clinic.

Director: John Hughes
Producer: John Hughes
Screenwriter: John Hughes
Production Co: Paramount Pictures, Hughes Entertainment
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 1, 2011
Box Office (Gross USA): $14.4M
Runtime: 1h 45m
Sound Mix: Surround

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