9 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Refreshingly semi-conservative!, March 26, 2001
By A Customer
This review is from: Labor Pains [VHS] (VHS Tape)
This is an off-the-wall movie about a young woman (Kyra Sedgwick) who gets pregnant by her boyfriend (Rob Morrow), then breaks up with him because he fears commitment. She doesn't bother to tell anyone but her best friend (Lela Rochon) about the little bun she has in the oven. She considers abortion, but (thankfully) not for very long. She finally decides to give the baby up for adoption after its birth (maybe...). She goes into labor maybe 20 minutes into the movie, and leaves everything up to her best friend, who calls the baby's father and her parents, who all converge at the hospital for a hilarious "family reunion". I'm not going to give the ending away...and I'm not going to say that this is the greatest, funniest movie I've ever seen. In my opinion, it's a worthwhile rental. Keep in mind that it's not all that true-to-life; for instance when the doctor asks her how far apart her contractions are, she replies with a big smile and, "you know I've really lost track". YEAH, right! Not only that, but she finds the time somewhere in all of this while she's at the hospital (even though she went into labor at a restaurant and wasn't carrying any visible bags) to slip her huge pregnant self into a clingy red dress, complete with slits up the sides. Isn't that just all the rage in every maternity wing for laboring women??? If you can get past these few little quirks, you might find this movie enjoyable. One of the funniest aspects of the movie was that all of the older married couples seemed to still be quite...active. It has an R rating for some language and a few fairly explicit sex scenes, so it's definitely not a family movie, but it could have been a lot worse. As a young single woman, I get tired of renting movies targeted towards me that are filled with all sorts of propaganda promoting abortion, homosexuality, and/or other things I'm not involved with and don't really want shoved down my throat at every opportunity. It was nice to see a new movie come out that actually promoted marriage and parenthood.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Labor Pains Is Pretty Painful To Watch, June 5, 2002
By A Customer
This review is from: Labor Pains [VHS] (VHS Tape)
Labor Pains while not a completely horrible movie, is pretty hard to watch. This movie does not have a good script and the acting certainly didn't add anything. There is very little character development, most of the characters never move beyond one dimensional, ... and completely unbelievable people. The acting in this movie is some of the worse I have ever seen, even the more famous actors like Mary Tyler Moore completely over act. This movie is supposed to be a romantic comedy, but I never laughed once. I wouldn't rent this movie, but if it is on TV and you are bored I would give it a try.
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