Synopsis
Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their parents) expect from them. Do they want babies? Their parents certainly want them to. Is married life all that there is? Things certainly aren't helped by Jake's friend Davis, who always seems to turn up just in time to put a spanner in the works.
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Cast
- Kevin BaconJake Briggs
- Elizabeth McGovernKristy Briggs
- Alec BaldwinDavis McDonald
- William WindomRussell Bainbridge
- Holland TaylorSarah Briggs
- Cathryn DamonGayle Bainbridge
- John AshtonKen
- Larry HankinHank
- Paul GleasonHoward
- Dennis DuganBill
Recommendations
- 75
The Associated Press
The gorgeous Elizabeth McGovern makes up for the sketchiness with rare depth of feeling. - 60
Empire
In another variation on a theme, this plodding drama may have its heart in the right place but, along side a gaggle of angst-ridden Hughes dramas of the period, fails to stand out amongst the crowd. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
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. - 50
The New York Times
Aiming at a target as easy as suburban sterility, She's Having a Baby might be expected to hit its mark every now and then. But the film's mood is simply too sour, despite the best efforts of a cast filled with appealing actors, a number of whom have had walk-ons in other Hughes efforts. - 50
Los Angeles Times
The movie has an odd, queasy edge to it. It's cute. But, sometimes, it gets cold cute, ghastly cute. The effect is mixed--like a Norman Rockwell cover redrawn in Gahan Wilson's style by a computer. - 50
Chicago Tribune
She`s Having a Baby wants to be everyone`s story, but its hollowness makes it no one`s. - 40
Washington Post
In general, if it weren't for the good will we feel toward the actors, the movie would be intolerably feeble. It's nearly intolerable as it is. The only other plus is Stewart Copeland's jaunty, percussive score. It's this sort of thing that's giving maternity a bad name. - 40
TV Guide Magazine
She's Having a Baby could have been a fascinating and funny look at the conflict between marriage and personal ambition had its writer-director probed more deeply into the subject. Hughes instead falls back on the easy jokes, hip music, and superficial character studies that have obscured the basic viability of all his work.
