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MPAA Rating: PG-13 Content Advisory: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Profanity, Sexual Situations Movie Release: 1988 DVD Release: 11/21/2000 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Edition: Special Collection Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 45 mins Studio: Paramount Members Wishing: 0 Genres: Comedy Drama, Romantic Comedy, Domestic Comedy See Also: She's Having a Baby [I Love the 80's Edition], She's Having a Baby [Circuit City Exclusive] [Checkpoint]

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 settles in suburban Chicago. Jake fakes his way into a job as an advertising copywriter, while Kristy settles into her own corporate job. The couple faces 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

Kevin Bacon - Jefferson "Jake" Briggs
Elizabeth McGovern - Kristy Briggs
Alec Baldwin - Davis McDonald
Isabel Lorca - Fantasy Girl
William Windom - Russ Bainbridge

John Hughes comedy about expectant parents, She's Having a Baby, comes to DVD with a widescreen anamorphic transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1. An English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital 5.1, while French and English soundtracks have been recorded in Dolby Digital Surround. English subtitles are accessible. Supplemental materials include the theatrical trailer. This is a fine release from Paramount that boasts excellent sound and picture quality. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide