So, as promised, I rented both For Keeps and She's Having A Baby over the weekend.
I must have been on crack when I said I remembered She's Having A Baby being one of the best preggers-themed movies I ever saw, because it was actually one of the worst movies I've ever seen... In my life! And it was a John Hughes film, even. What's up with that?! It basically portrays marriage as a one-way ticket to the Burbs, and assumes that husband/wife will immediately become enemies after saying "I do" and fight nonstop for the rest of their existence!
Ha! John Hughes, why didn't you just tell us you wanted to be a teenager forever?
Anyway, For Keeps was a *little* more of the real deal. Kind of reminded me of Fifteen and Pregnant (starring Kirsten Dunst!) since the couple has their "oops" moment while still in high school but decides to have the child anyway, etc etc. A good amount of drama with a dose of realism thrown in. Plus it's just fun seeing Molly Ringwald with a giant preggers belly!
And for what it's worth, For Keeps is the one I saw in high school (when my best friend cried). I had never seen She's Having A Baby and don't know how it got mixed up in my head..... But -- its one redeeming quality (at the end) was a slo-mo of flashbacks while playing Kate Bush's This Woman's Work. I think it was probably the inspiration for that DUI/hospital scene between Bailey & Sarah in Party of Five that one time, but I'm probably the only one who knows what I'm talking about here.......! :)
