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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. Written by
Murray Chapman <muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au>
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A comedy about the labours of love
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Goofs
When Kristy tells Jake she stopped taking the pill, he is shown on a rocket sled which crashes into a concrete wall. When it explodes the size of the flame doesn't match the size of the wreckage - it's clearly a model.
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Quotes
Jefferson "Jake" Edward Briggs:
Wh... why do you... why do you think I'm nervous?
Fantasy Girl:
Because you don't know what you want.
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Crazy Credits
The film's title is followed by the same 5 symbols that appeared at the start of each episode of _"Ben Casey" (1961)_: "man, woman, birth, death, infinity" as the narrator of that series used to say.
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References
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
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Soundtracks
"MORE THAN A FEELING"
Written by
Tom Scholz
Performed by
Boston
Produced by
John Boylan and
Tom Scholz
Courtesy of CBS Records
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I would go on record to say that John Hughes' "She's Having A Baby" is by far the best film he's ever done -- and this from the man responsible for those giddy teen comedies from the '80's (i.e. BREAKFAST CLUB, SIXTEEN CANDLES, FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF).
It's ironic that his best work would be about grownups, or in this case, growing up. Jake and Kristi (played superbly by Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth McGovern), are indeed, your average married couple going through the same problems most married people do, and most kids their age would be sidestepping. But Hughes adds more dimension and more insight, and in spite of the laughs (which there are, by the way) and even some silly sequences,he still wrings out an air of truth.
Sadly, this film flopped at the B.O. in it's initial release back in 1988, but then why carp about performance. "SHAB" is a quiet gem of a film to be appreciated by the few that appreciate good filmmaking.
Grade: A-