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Nine Months

Comedy Child psychologist Samuel Faulkner (Hugh Grant) has an ideal romance with ballet teacher Rebecca Taylor (Julianne Moore). Rebecca is thinking about marriage and children. Samuel is against the idea of marriage as he is happy with how things are between them. This all changes when Rebecca declares she is pregnant. Samuel's fears mount due to his encounters with overbearing couple Marty (Tom Arnold) & Gail (Joan Cusack) and their unruly ... [+]
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United States
Entertainment Weekly
"If there were a scale for measuring how much of a movie's substance was pure plastic, Nine Months would surely register dangerously high polymer levels" 
United States
The Washington Post
"This adaptation of the French 'Neuf Mois' bottle-feeds us the same sticky pablum as 'Three Men and a Baby,' 'Parenthood' and 'Baby Boom.'"  
United States
The Hollywood Reporter
"An exceedingly safe and conventional Chris Columbus comedy" 
United States
The New York Times
"Nine Months is slick, phony and uneven, but it's often raucously funny too. And Mr. Grant displays enough intelligence and sportsmanship to emerge from this ordeal as a major Hollywood star"
United States
Variety
"An exceedingly safe and conventional Chris Columbus comedy" 
United States
Austin Chronicle
"Even a C-section couldn't rescue the shallow script and overplayed performances by Hugh Grant and Tom Arnold" 
United States
SFGATE
"Good for a few laughs but soon turns tiresome" 
United States
USA Today
"Writer/director Chris Columbus (Mrs. Doubtfire) delivers his usual slapstick and sap shtick, but the sitcom-slick results fall flat"
United States
Newsweek
"Complacently conventional...it threatens to turn an interesting actor into a self-parodying commodity"
United States
Miami Herald
"Nine Months displays its Capraesque family values with pride, and it will make you laugh, but there's something oddly mechanical about it"
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