Obvious Child

Jenny Slate stars as a standup comic in this indie film about abortion that comes snuggled in the broad strokes of a quirky comedy.

"...and sloppy-drunk, then sleeps with a stranger. She gets pregnant. She decides to get an abortion. These are plot..."

June 20, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Devil's Due

She's having an unholy baby - but isn't that every pregnant woman's fear? The only new ingredient in this horror setup is the found-footage element.

"...already a really lousy made-for-TV sequel,” Samantha discovers she’s pregnant. Suddenly, said unplanned pregnancy is accompanied by a voraciously..."

Jan. 24, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Gimme Shelter

Vanessa Hudgeons stars in this bland exercise in very serious and meaningful young-adult drama.

"...make it work. When Apple turns out to be pregnant it proves to be a little too much...."

Jan. 24, 2014 Movie Review by Louis Black

Delivery Man

Vince Vaughn stars in this remake of a sweet Canadian film about a prolific sperm donor whose contributions catch up with him 20 years later.

"...the tune of $80,000. His girlfriend Emma (Smulders) is pregnant but she isn’t sure she wants to accept David’s..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ain't Them Bodies Saints

A hardscrabble, heartbreaking, love-and-death affair is gorgeously captured in David Lowery's Texas feature.

"...with a 25-year prison sentence. The kicker? Ruth is pregnant, and their mutual yearning for each other leads Bob..."

Aug. 23, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fill the Void

In this fascinating Israeli film set within a community of ultra-Orthodox Jews, a young woman grapples with whether to marry her dead sister's husband.

"...home. But her giddiness turns to sorrow when her nine-months-pregnant sister Esther (Raz) dies during the holiday of Purim,..."

July 19, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Starbuck

A sperm donor learns 20 years after the fact that he is the father of 533 children in this mild, French-Canadian comedy.

"...(Le Breton) has just informed him that she is pregnant but thinks he’s too irresponsible to partake in raising..."

April 19, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Kahaani

In this Hindi film, a heavily pregnant woman travels searches for her missing husband, whom no one has heard of.

"...at press time. In this Hindi film, a heavily pregnant woman travels from London to Kolkata, India, in search..."

March 23, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Weekend

This movie about a gay hookup that becomes something more is perceptive, emotional, comical, and much more.

"...kitchenettes, and couches feel alive with potent conversation and pregnant silences. As the end to the tumultuous weekend approaches,..."

Oct. 14, 2011 Movie Review by James Renovitch

Point Blank

In this frenzied French thriller, a man races to save his wife's life – and then races some more.

"...home invasion that leaves him knocked unconscious and his pregnant wife, Nadia (Anaya), abducted. Revived by a ringing cell..."

Sept. 2, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Elektra Luxx

Carla Gugino heads up this daffy film as the eponymous porn star, now retired, pregnant, and prone to self-reflection and the occasional moment of doubt.

"...revolve around the eponymous porn star (Gugino), now retired, pregnant, and prone to self-reflection and the occasional moment of..."

March 25, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire

Much like the title character Precious, this rough-hewn movie overcomes the unlikely odds for its success.

"...African-American girl who is functionally illiterate, morbidly obese, and pregnant with her second child fathered by her own father..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Badland

Badland is a well-meaning but pointlessly overblown drama about an American vet with post-traumatic stress disorder.

"...troubled vet Jerry (Draven), who shoots to death his pregnant wife and two sons before going on the lam..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

Obtaining a back-alley abortion in Romania proves to be rivetingly tense in this visually spare but assuredly virtuosic film.

"...in a communist country again. Vasiliu plays Gabita, a pregnant college student with an air of impassive victimhood about..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation 2008

Another compilation of old and new animated spectacles guaranteed to rot your eyeballs.

"...his clever "Lapsus," while Apocalypse Cartoons' "Rats on Cocaine: Pregnant" is exactly as morally instructive as it sounds. Still,..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Perfect Holiday

In this lightweight yuletide fluffery, a young girl turns to a shopping-mall Santa to find a husband for her divorced mother.

"...Santa; his possible paramour, single mom Nancy (Union), is pregnant with implausibility, having already spawned too-cute hood rat Emily..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Halloween

Michael Myers is back in this "reimagining," courtesy of Rob Zombie.

"...for the sublimely horrific (a woodsy murder sequence is pregnant with disturbing, painterly compositions), that eye is wasted here..."

Sept. 7, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Old Joy

Old Joy is an accurately observed slice of that moment between postadolescence and parenthood, when friends cling or scatter, and circumstances force buried feelings to the fore.

"...friends who are growing apart. Mark’s wife (Smith) is pregnant for the first time; he’s working a lot. Kurt’s..."

Nov. 3, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Heart of the Game

Seven years of film footage went into this perceptive documentary about girls who play high school basketball, the situations unique to their gender, and their marginalization by the school administration.

"...struggle to stay in the game after she becomes pregnant and drops out of school temporarily. This documentary by..."

July 7, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

5x2

Ozon's film begins at the end and leads backward over the slow death of a couple's marital bliss, but even while we’re flipping through the snapshots of two people’s disenchantment with each other, it never feels tawdry or excessive or, for that matter, very interesting.

"...(Freiss) and Marion (Bruni-Tedeschi) into five distinct movements, each pregnant with its own lyrical sense of impending marital disquiet..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Junebug

With this film built on a host of remarkably nuanced Southern characters, first-time filmmaker Phil Morrison announces himself with assurance and uniqueness of vision.

"...hostility by his mother, Peg (Weston); only her eager-to-please, pregnant sister-in-law, Ashley (scene-stealer Adams), is wowed by this double-cheek-kissing..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Saving Face

In this breezy Chinese-American coming-out comedy, ethnic, generational, and family identities collide with the anything-goes ethos of modern love.

"...to Joan Chen. As a fortysomething, traditionalist widow unexpectedly pregnant by a man she will not name to her..."

July 1, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

A Home at the End of the World

Michael Cunningham's novel is the basis for this story of a love triangle in which everyone's in love with Bobby (played by Colin Farrell).

"...of which are electrifying – especially when Clare becomes pregnant and the three decide to raise the child together...."

Aug. 6, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Saved!

Teen satire softly pokes at the hypocrisies of organized religion.

"...Christian intervention center, with Mary left lonely, faith-shaken, and pregnant. Mary hides her pregnancy from this ensemble comedy’s eclectic..."

June 11, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights

The story is similar to the popular original – but its Borscht Belt setting has been relocated to pre-revolutionary Cuba in 1958.

"...some hip-bumping, booty-shaking salsa moves that won’t get anyone pregnant but nevertheless ain’t your parents’ foxtrot. Actually, the location..."

Feb. 27, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Carnage

Although maybe not a great film, Carnage is the most ambitious and assured feature debut in recent memory, and it is certainly distinctive.

"...inhabiting its world. A dysfunctional marriage simmers while the pregnant wife (Lio) awaits the start of her labor. An..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

Quentin Tarantino goes into overdrive with this story about the bride who was left for dead on her wedding day and seeks revenge against them that done her wrong.

"...soul and dead offspring. Left for dead on her nine-months-pregnant wedding day by the band of colorful assassins she..."

Oct. 10, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Le Divorce

The Merchant Ivory team say "I do" to romantic comedy.

"...flies to Paris for an extended stay with her pregnant sister, a poet named Roxeanne (a bland Naomi Watts)...."

Aug. 22, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Last Kiss

The Italian film which was adapted for the American remake starring Zach Braff.

"...meltdowns sooner, too.) Carlos' live-in girlfriend, Giulia (Mezzogiorno), is pregnant, a condition that for Carlos represents the end of..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Sugar & Spice

"...friends have bigger fish to fry when Diane gets pregnant by her quarterback boyfriend Jack (Marsden). Jack and Diane..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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