Nine Months is a 1995 romantic comedy directed by Chris Columbus and starring Hugh Grant and Julianne Moore. It is the story of Samuel, a self-absorbed child therapist who goes into a panic when his girlfriend discovers that she's pregnant. Tom Arnold, Joan Cusack, Jeff Goldblum and Robin Williams co-star.
This film contains examples of:
- Babies Make Everything Better: 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.
- Baby Factory: 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.
- But We Used a Condom!: Rebecca was on the pill, but that 97% success rate...
- The Cameo: Crazy Fat Ethel actress Priscilla Alden has a brief scene, but she's unmistakable.
- Funny Foreigner: Dr. Kosevich (Robin Williams), the Russian OB-GYN that Sam and Rebecca keep getting stuck with.
- Incompetence, Inc.: 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? 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.
- Kids' Show Mascot Parody: One scene has Arnie, who provokes a fight with Sam and Marty when the latter states his kids hates Arnie.
- Mantis Mating Meal: 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!"
- Not Wanting Kids Is Weird: Samuel's friend Sean seems to enjoy the swinging bachelor life, but later admits to being miserable because he's all alone.
- Personalized Pledge: 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.
- The Peter Principle: 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.
- Time Title: The approximate length of a pregnancy and a pregnancy is the Inciting Incident of the movie.
- Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: One of Marty and Gail's daughters reads Harlequin romance novels and acts them out in front of Sam.
- Volleying Insults:Sam: Think, you commie bastard!
Kosevich: Shut up, you limey prick! - Who's Your Daddy?: 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 for some reason.
