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| Paramount Pictures | Release Date: February 5, 1988 |
Starring:
Alec Baldwin, Bill Erwin, Cathryn Damon, Elizabeth McGovern, Holland Taylor, James Ray, Kevin Bacon, Paul Gleason, Reba McKinney, William Windom
Summary:
Young newlyweds find out just how unprepared they are for their future together.
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The gorgeous Elizabeth McGovern makes up for the sketchiness with rare depth of feeling.
The latest work from director-producer-writer John Hughes is a muddle. Hughes has packed the movie, the story of a young couple's marriage, with amusing sight gags and jokes. What he has failed to offer are palatable characters, original insights or smooth storytelling. Worst of all, he has tacked on a deplorable teary finale. [5 Feb 1988, p.C4]
She’s Having a Baby begins with the simplest and most moving of stories and interrupts it with an amazing assortment of gimmicks. It is some kind of tribute to the strength of the story, and the warmth of the performances by Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth McGovern, that the movie somehow manages almost to work, in spite of the adornments.
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As hollow as it is hip. [5 Feb 1988, p.8]
Even though Kristy is seen mainly through the uncomprehending eyes of Jake, McGovern manages to fare better with the cliches thrown at her than Bacon does; but neither has a prayer of scoring at a game whose rules and players might have been dreamed up by a computer. Even the cutesy minor gag of putting the title's initials on the hero's license plate has something grimly nonhuman about it.
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