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''Nine Months'' is a 1995 romantic comedy directed by Creator/ChrisColumbus and starring Creator/HughGrant and Creator/JulianneMoore. It is the story of Samuel, a self-absorbed child therapist who goes into a panic when his girlfriend discovers that she's pregnant. Creator/TomArnold, Creator/JoanCusack, Creator/JeffGoldblum and Creator/RobinWilliams co-star.

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!!This film contains examples of:

* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: {{Played with}}, in that initially, Sam's life seems to be spinning out of control after Rebecca becomes pregnant, but ultimately, becoming a father forces him to grow up.
* BabyFactory: Gail has already had three kids and is preparing for a fourth. It's implied that Marty will keep getting her pregnant until she has a boy.
* ButWeUsedACondom: Rebecca ''was'' on the pill, [[TruthInTelevision but that 97% success rate...]]
* TheCameo: ''[[Film/CriminallyInsane Crazy Fat Ethel]]'' actress Priscilla Alden has a brief scene, but she's unmistakable.
* FunnyForeigner: Dr. Kosevich (Creator/RobinWilliams), the Russian OB-GYN that Sam and Rebecca keep getting stuck with.
* IncompetenceInc: The hospital in the climax. If all the women in town go into contractions during a full moon, then shouldn't the hospital be better prepared for this? [[SarcasmMode It only happens 12 or 13 times a year after all]].
* {{Irony}}: Sam is a therapist whose practice apparently specializes in children, yet has no idea how to raise a kid himself.
* KidsShowMascotParody: One scene has Arnie, who provokes a fight with Sam and Marty when the latter states his kids hates Arnie.
* MantisMatingMeal: Sam has nightmares about his girlfriend Rebecca turning into a mantis and eating him, as a metaphor for his anxieties about becoming a dad and all the changes that he'd have to make to his lifestyle.
-->"THEY EAT THE FATHER! THEY EAT THE FATHER!"
* NotWantingKidsIsWeird: Samuel's friend Sean seems to enjoy the swinging bachelor life, but later admits to being miserable because he's all alone.
* PersonalizedPledge: Towards the climax, when a going-into-labor Rebecca finds out that Sam briefly dated a woman while the two of them were broken up, Sam swears on the life of his child that they only had one date and did not sleep together.
* ThePeterPrinciple: Dr. Kosevich was originally a successful veterinarian in Russia. After accepting a job in America working with people, it's all too clear that he's in way over his head.
* TimeTitle: The approximate length of a pregnancy and a pregnancy is the IncitingIncident of the movie.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: One of Marty and Gail's daughters reads Harlequin romance novels and acts them out in front of Sam.
* VolleyingInsults:
-->'''Sam''': Think, you commie bastard!\\
'''Kosevich''': Shut up, you limey prick!
* WhosYourDaddy: After meeting with Dr. Kosevich, Samuel does the math and realises that Rebecca would have been impregnated on a day that he was out of town. A false alarm as it turns out that Dr. Kosevich had the computer calibrated for simians [[RuleOfFunny for some reason.]]
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