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She's Having a Baby (1988)
Director: John Hughes
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Taking his erstwhile teen lovers into young adulthood, marriage and parenthood, John Hughes fashions a curiously disaffected portrait of the artist as a frustrated chauvinist. Bacon - an aspiring writer who lands a job in advertising, just as Hughes did - narrates the film. We are privy to his daydreams about freedom and his resentment towards his bride (McGovern in a terrible role), and then we watch his change of heart in a thoroughly unconvincing last reel. This is bitter-sweet compartmentalised, with the saccharine spooned on at the end. Even then it lacks flavour.Author: TCh
Cast & crew
Director: John Hughes
Producer: John Hughes
Cast: Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth McGovern, Alec Baldwin, Isabel Lorca, William Windom, Cathryn Damon, Dennis Dugan, Edie McClurg, Dan Aykroyd full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 106 mins
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