Review of Nine Months (1976) by Ethan H — 08 May 2012
Chris Columbus was fresh off the success of the first two Home Alone films and Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), for his next film he picked a Hollywood version of the French romantic comedy Neuf mois (1994), and Columbus picked the star of a recent British hit to lead the film.
It has it's funny moments, but it does drag in places. It nearly flopped, but a little incident on the part of it's star made it a world hit, In San Francisco, child psychologist Samuel Faulkner (Hugh Grant) leads a perfect life, he is in an ideal romance with ballet school teacher Rebecca Taylor (Julianne Moore).
Nothing could be better, and then Rebecca announces that she's pregant, which turns Samuel's world upside down. Samuel isn't the father type, and he panics about how this will affect his life and his perfectly knit world.
It's not made any better with the advice Samuel gets from overbearing father Marty Dwyer (Tom Arnold) and his wife Gail (Joan Cusack), and their unruly daughters. Advice from Samuel's friend Sean (Jeff Goldblum) doesn't help, but when Samuel see's a video of the ultrasound, he has to get it together for fatherhood, but he and Rebecca's relationship is on the verge of collapse.
It does have it's moments, but some of it drags, and Grant does his bumbling Englishman routine again, but Arnold steals the film as the excitable father, and Robin Williams steals the film in an all too brief cameo as the Russian gynecologist Dr.
Kosevich, which makes you wish there had been more of him in the film.
This review of Nine Months (1976) was written by Ethan H on 08 May 2012.
Nine Months has generally received mixed reviews.
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