She's Having a Baby 1988

Dave Kehr, Chicago Tribune: She's Having a Baby wants to be everyone's story, but its hollowness makes it no one's. Read more

Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune: Bacon`s character is such a chronic complainer than we wonder why McGovern doesn't dump him. Read more

Michael Wilmington, Los Angeles Times: If She's Having a Baby were a funnier movie, if the fights were more cleverly written and Bacon and McGovern played them more deftly and lightly, it wouldn't have that unpleasant edge -- seesawing between romance and paranoia. Read more

Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel: It's a measure of how little maneuvering room the movie leaves its performers that a lovely, sensitive actress like Elizabeth McGovern makes virtually no impression. Read more

Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: [The film] assumes that boys will be boys but that the mystical act of fatherhood will make a man of you. Trouble with She's Having a Baby is, Hughes believes this without feeling obliged to develop it dramatically. Read more

Janet Maslin, 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. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: 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. Read more

Roger Ebert, 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. Read more

Tom Charity, Time Out: 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. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: In the lead role, Kevin Bacon is enthusiastic and believable, but even his energy can't carry what boils down to a fairly limp story. Read more

Hal Hinson, Washington Post: The dilemmas faced by the characters on screen have no greater urgency than those faced by the actors in television commercials. Read more