Labor Pains (2009)

Director:

Lara Shapiro

Writers (WGA):

Stacey Kramer (written by) &
Lara Shapiro (written by)

Release Date:

19 June 2009 (Romania)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Tagline:

Some stories keep on growing.

Plot:

A young woman pretends to be pregnant in order to avoid being fired from her job. When that gets her special treatment by everyone involved in her life, she tries to keep up the lie for nine months. |

Plot Keywords:

Lie | Job | Pregnant | Faked Pregnancy | New Office

Cast

Lindsay Lohan	...	Thea Clayhill
Luke Kirby	...	Nick Steinwald
Chris Parnell	...	Jerry Steinwald
Aaron Yoo	...	Miles
Bridgit Mendler	...	Emma Clayhill
Tracee Ellis Ross	...	Kristin
Kevin Covais	...	Greg
Bonnie Somerville	...	Suzi Cavandish
Cheryl Hines	...	Lisa DePardo
Creed Bratton	...	John Abbotts
Janeane Garofalo	...	Claire the Vista Host
Keiko Agena	...	Pregnant Bookstore Woman
Donald V. Allen	...	Umpire
Jack Axelrod	...	O'Keefe
Alexandra Barreto	...	Pretty Woman

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for sexual content and language.

Runtime:

USA:89 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:PG-13 | UK:12

Filming Locations:

Burbank, California, USA

Company:

Grand Army Entertainment

Trivia:

Originally made for cinema.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Thea is at the birthing class, Nick is sitting behind her in the beginning and then the camera switches to the back, and he is not sitting with her. But when it returns to the front, he is there again.

Quotes:

Greg: You know, I find it fascinating that Kristin is only a month further along than you, and yet she's the size of a school bus while you're still over here looking like Kate Moss.
Thea Clayhill: Uh, different strokes, I guess.
Greg: Perhaps it's easier to feel the bump than to see it.
[reaches for Thea's stomach, Lisa swats at his hand]
Greg: What's the big deal? Everyone likes to touch a pregnant stomach.
Lisa DePardo: Because you're a gross weirdo, Greg.
Thea Clayhill: And the baby doesn't like gross weirdos, Greg!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: (#7.23)" (2008)

Soundtrack:

OK

DVD best suited for the bargain bin

The scenes between Thea and her work crush were boring but romances bore me unless they're really good love stories. This is not a good love story. That scene where he gives that big speech and what's her face asks him if he knows how cute he is made me wanna puke, that speech was creepy and he wasn't cute. Some of the scenes and subsequently the dialogue in this movie were just bad.

I thought going in that the premise of the movie was stupid but I was surprised by how they played with it. There were a lot of bad scenes but there was also a lot of creative ideas on what happens to Thea. Now the premise is a good one but the movie could have been a lot better than it was if it was quirkier or if the humour "went there" more often. Probably because it's an ABC Family movie but the humour almost crossed that line but it never really did, maybe in the pregnancy class which the only laugh out loud moment I can remember.

Lindsay's performance was one of the weaker ones of the film but she's not that great of an actress. She's watchable enough but the other performances really carry the film though none of them are anything special. Just watchable.

The sounds and music in this movie are better than expected. The backgrounds in this movie are ugly, nothing is visually appealing. The colours in the movie are all boring and drab. The fashion in this movie is non-existent.

Very mediocre, this is a DVD best suited for the bargain bin.