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She's Having a Baby

1988 · 106 min

A wry, tender look at marriage and growing up, mixing laughs with real anxiety about adulthood.

Directed by: John Hughes
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth McGovern, Alec Baldwin

Tagline: Man. Woman. Life. Death. Infinity. Tuna casserole. One movie dares to tell it all.
Overview: 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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Directed by: John Hughes
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth McGovern, Alec Baldwin

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Tone: warmstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: parenthood
love
identity
family
coming-of-age
Places: suburbs
big city
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild

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Action	1
Horror	0
Humour	6
Realism	8
Romance	6
Tension	4
Darkness	4
Complexity	4
Emotional weight	6

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