This is John Hughes' sweetest movie and a good one to end his directorial career on. I'm a 20 year old guy and I felt it was speaking to me, and made me quite emotional by the end.Very good movie. I give it 8/10 Stop thinking about it and enjoy the movie
shareI very much agree that it is an underrated movie. John Hughes had made a series of (all-time great) teen movies prior to this. This one slipped past the radar b/c the audience he had built up through those teen movies were nowhere near getting married and having babies at this point in their own lives. So they skipped it and his potential audience, late 20-somethings and early 30-somethings, were probably skeptical about this "teen director" doing a movie about being married and having kids.
It was actually the perfect transition movie for John Hughes though. I was a big fan of John Hughes' teen movies when they were released b/c I was the prefect age for them - i.e. I was a teenager. I skipped She's Having a Baby b/c it didn;t speak to me at the time. Now, as an adult husband/parent, it speaks to me very much. I love the sweetness of this movie. And it does a very good job of portraying impending fatherhood and how intimidating that can be.
I first saw this movie during its theatrical release. I loved it then and love it now. Yes, it's incredibly sweet, and so funny with the lawn mower ballet, Jake's going in circles when it's time to go to the hospital, plus the various celebrities' name suggestion. Love the bit, too, when Jake was barred from the delivery room and cried and laughed over his flashback's of his wife and marriage.....I always cry through that whole scene.
The song 'Apron Strings' is still precious to me as well. <3