... mainly because Bruce Willis' voice over the baby just making random mouth movements would actually be outdated in just a few more years. Also, the attitude towards single motherhood dates it too.
Director Amy Heckerling took her experiences with having her own daughter and used it to come up with the screenplay.
Kirstie Alley plays Mollie, an accountant who is having a long term affair with a married client, Albert, who keeps claiming he is going to leave his wife but of course has no intention of doing so, even if he doesn't know it. When Mollie becomes pregnant she decides to keep the baby, and Albert seems delighted. Even if that doesn't crow-bar him from his wife.
On the day she goes into labor she finds out Albert is cheating on her with somebody else. She resolves from that point forward to only date men who would make good fathers, regardless of how boring and nondescript that they might be. But it turns out that the short bald guys can be just as grabby and boorish as the good looking ones. But still the search continues. And then she finds herself falling for the cabbie that took her to the hospital, the rather goofy impulsive James (John Travolta), a guy who doesn't check any of her "good father material" boxes. Meanwhile, the baby is the smartest and most observant person in the room.
This film never goes very deep below the surface - it is primarily a slapstick comedy with moments of poignance. But watching it again, the dating of it really comes through. A doctor who tries to influence a pregnant woman to have her baby? Seriously? Giving your parents some song and dance about how you were artificially inseminated that involves a "frozen pop" rather than admit that, in your early 30s, you had sex? Still, if you are a woman who found yourself single into your 30s and kissed more than your fair share of frogs, some of this is going to ring true, baby or no baby.
Director Amy Heckerling took her experiences with having her own daughter and used it to come up with the screenplay.
Kirstie Alley plays Mollie, an accountant who is having a long term affair with a married client, Albert, who keeps claiming he is going to leave his wife but of course has no intention of doing so, even if he doesn't know it. When Mollie becomes pregnant she decides to keep the baby, and Albert seems delighted. Even if that doesn't crow-bar him from his wife.
On the day she goes into labor she finds out Albert is cheating on her with somebody else. She resolves from that point forward to only date men who would make good fathers, regardless of how boring and nondescript that they might be. But it turns out that the short bald guys can be just as grabby and boorish as the good looking ones. But still the search continues. And then she finds herself falling for the cabbie that took her to the hospital, the rather goofy impulsive James (John Travolta), a guy who doesn't check any of her "good father material" boxes. Meanwhile, the baby is the smartest and most observant person in the room.
This film never goes very deep below the surface - it is primarily a slapstick comedy with moments of poignance. But watching it again, the dating of it really comes through. A doctor who tries to influence a pregnant woman to have her baby? Seriously? Giving your parents some song and dance about how you were artificially inseminated that involves a "frozen pop" rather than admit that, in your early 30s, you had sex? Still, if you are a woman who found yourself single into your 30s and kissed more than your fair share of frogs, some of this is going to ring true, baby or no baby.