Rating: PG13
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Theatrical Release: 02/05/1988(USA)
Release Date: 08/05/2008
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1/DDS2.0
Run Time: 105 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Profanity, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: Paramount
An aspiring writer faces up to the responsibilities of marriage and family in this
romantic comedy from writer, director, and producer
John Hughes. Despite the misgivings he pours out to best friend
Davis McDonald (
Alec Baldwin),
Jake Briggs (
Kevin Bacon) marries high-school sweetheart
Kristy (
Elizabeth McGovern). After an abortive attempt at graduate school in New Mexico, the couple settle in suburban Chicago.
Jake fakes his way into a job as an advertising copywriter, while
Kristy settles into her own corporate job. The couple face the typical ups and downs of any new marriage, especially after
Davis visits with a bimbo on his arm, regaling his pal
Jake with tales of the good life. A few years later,
Kristy decides to stop taking her birth-control pills -- and tells
Jake about it three months later. Plagued by doubts, unfulfilled ambitions, and images of a fantasy girl (
Isabel Lorca) he once spotted in a club,
Jake resists the idea of fatherhood. Then he finds out he has low sperm count and, his manhood thus challenged, lines up for fertility clinic-assisted stud duty. The birth doesn't go as smoothly as
Jake expected, however, setting the stage for climactic realizations.
Edie McClurg, who played the nosy school secretary in
Hughes'
Ferris Bueller's Day Off, makes a cameo appearance as an officious neighbor. In addition, a who's who of other
Hughes alums and Hollywood stars lend their faces and voices to a series of closing-credits shots in which each suggests a name for the titular baby.
~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide
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