Cinema: Wedlock Blues SHE'S HAVING A BABY

Directed and Written by John Hughes

You name it: Pampers panic? Tot terror? Baby gloom? But whatever you call it, mark this astonishing fact: for once Hollywood has arrived first on the case, identifying what is obviously a vast and troubling social malaise before Donahue has talked it to death or Congress even thought of throwing money at it.

What the movie folks have noticed is a grim specter haunting all of yuppiedom. No matter how furiously they pedal their Exercycles, no matter how earnestly they chomp through their radicchio or how desperately they try to drown their anxieties in wine coolers, the yups cannot escape this...

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