What to Expect When You're Expecting

2012-05-17 • 1h 50m • PG-13 •

Romance Comedy Drama

6.0

User Score

1829 votes

"It's too late to pull out now."

Overview

Challenges of impending parenthood turn the lives of five couples upside down. Two celebrities are unprepared for the surprise demands of pregnancy; hormones wreak havoc on a baby-crazy author, while her husband tries not to be outdone by his father, who's expecting twins with his young trophy wife; a photographer's husband isn't sure about his wife's adoption plans; a one-time hook-up results in a surprise pregnancy for rival food-truck owners.

Kirk Jones

Director

Heather Hach

Writer

Top Billed Cast

Jennifer Lopez

Holly

Chace Crawford

Marco

Anna Kendrick

Rosie Brennan

Cameron Diaz

Jules Baxter

Elizabeth Banks

Wendy Cooper

Brooklyn Decker

Skyler Cooper

Movie Details

Status

Released

Original Language

Budget

$40,000,000

Revenue

$79,700,000

Runtime

1h 50m

Release Date

2012-05-17

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Reviews

Kamurai

2021-01-21T21:39:07.537Z

Decent watch, probably won't watch again, and can't recommend unless you're pregnant (or part of a couple with pregnancy). It's one of those movies where it is 4-5 stories that barely (if at all) overlap, but have some thematic connection to one another. I honestly think it's a great way to use celebrities to comprehensively cover the contents of the book of the same name. This is (clearly) targeted at pregnant women and expecting parents, and I think it does a good job of that. I don't think it does as great a job creating a decent narrative for general audiences.