Nine Months

Plot synopsis:
Child psychologist Samuel Faulkner has an ideal romance with ballet teacher Rebecca Taylor. Rebecca is thinking about marriage and children. Samuel is against the idea of marriage as he is happy with how things are between them. This all changes when Rebecca declares she is pregnant and when questioned by Samuel about her birth control she replies birth control is only 97% of the time effective. Samuel's fears mount due to his encounters with overbearing couple Marty and Gail Dwyer and their unruly children, as well as the confusing advice he gets from Sean, his perpetually single artist friend. They meet Doctor Kosevich who happens to be Russian. Samuel is confused and unsure about what to do. Feeling neglected, Rebecca leaves him and moves in with Marty and Gail. Samuel tries to contact her but she does not respond. When a girl makes a move on Samuel, he declines, saying he's not ready to move on yet. When he sees an ultrasound of his soon-to-be-born son, he decides that it is time to take responsibility before it is too late. He sells his Porsche 911, buys a family van, and gets back together with Rebecca. They then marry and have their baby together.

Tags: comedy, romantic, humor, entertaining

Review:
Robin Williams's character seems forced.While things are a little light and slow in the beginning, it's in the last half hour that the writer puts a little too many comedy, most of it falling flat on its 'face'.
The dialog is from the day dreams of a fourteen year old.The fact that a film uses actor Hugh Grant does not make it sensitive, uplifting or funny.
It was immature and lowbrow, and relied way too much on slapstick (Tom Arnold and Hugh Grant fighting in a toy store; Julianne Moore's wheelchair plowing into a wall; etc.)Why can't there ever be a movie where someone who doesn't want children at the beginning STILL doesn't want them at the end?
A child psychiatrist's (Hugh Grant) life is turned upside down when his girlfriend (Julianne Moore) becomes pregnant.
Also along for the ride are Russian doctor Robin Williams, struggling artist Jeff Goldblum and an odd married couple (Tom Arnold and Joan Cusack).
Grant, who was in the midst of being caught in Hollywood with a prostitute just before this film was released, ended up having the last laugh as the movie ended up being a mild box office success.
Hugh Grant and Julianne Moore are a great duo in this comedy.
Yes, it is a little silly at times, but if you enjoy slapstick, this is the movie for you.Hugh Grant plays Samuel.
His on-screen presence is pretty much consists of witty lines, snappy articulation and boyish / non-threatening charm - and some element of nerves.He's got that same appeal in this movie - and with the over-the-top acting of Tom Arnold, the film has great comedic performances.
A big step down for kid flick director Chris Columbus, this tumble from messy to sappy to corny to slapsticky wouldn't be worth the time if it weren't for the comic contributions of Arnold, Williams, Cusack, and Goldblum.
'Nine Months' is a romantic comedy film starring Hugh Grant as a boyfriend to a girl who has learned that she has just become pregnant.
Hugh Grant's character must now learn how to be a grown up and how to be a good father, and he does not like this one bit.
In addition, whenever Sam (Hugh Grant) and Rebecca (Julianne Moore) had a fight, I felt really bad.
Now, in conclusion, I highly recommend this excellent comedy that will make you laugh and feel good to any Hugh Grant or Julianne Moore fan who hasn't seen it.
They are both very believable as 'mom' and 'dad', with their characters seeming a bit more innocent than their previous roles(this is Chris Columbus, after all.) There is plenty of character development for Grant's char., though the best part of the movie is its humor.
Julianne Moore, Joan Cusack and Jeff Goldblum also star, but I think that everyone can agree that they've done much better than this, as has director Chris Columbus.Still, that scene with the dinosaur was pretty funny.
If you're really bored one evening, not looking for a comedy, but a dull drama about a silly man getting a baby though he doesn't want to - I guess it is possible to watch it.
Hugh Grant does his usual high class, bumbling gentleman thing, Tom Arnold does his annoying best-friend neighbour routine, Jeff Goldblum as the decidedly cynical artist with a skeptical view of everything, Joan Cusack as the kooky ditz, Robin Williams as the inept foreign doctor and Julianne Moore plays it straight.
I love both Hugh Grant and Julianne Moore and watch all their movies, but somehow on the screen they do not fit.
Hugh can act great with a number of actresses from Julia Roberts to Martin McCutcheon and Julianne passes to a superb partner to Pierce Brosnan - but I'd have never thought to put them together on one screen.The movie is about a middle aged couple, Samuel and Rebecca, who live together and have the usual no commitment-no worries lifestyle.
The end of the movie was a big disappointment for me; I expected something more serious and intimate.Hugh Grant plays quite well these romantic comedy roles, but after the tenth comedy from him, it is getting boring.
There are a million movies around like this and I happen to be a fan of predictable romantic comedies(if their good) but I found the characters and humor very weak and even though the movie's not DECADES old or anything it looks dated now, especially the hairstyles.
Sucked the big one.I don't mind Hugh Grant; he can be very good ("Notting Hill", "An Awfully Big Adventure" - a really great film, "Bridget Jones' Diary").
As if we didn't get enough torture watching Hugh Grant (and others) belittle us with down right "dribble" with Four Weddings and a Funeral, we now have to deal with Grant (and a new batch of conspirators) in this one.I saw the previews, and I thought I would being seening an enjoyable commedy (especially with Robin Williams, the King of Comedy, in it).
The film focused mainly on Hugh Grant, its greatest mistake, and we are forced to watch him once again prove to us that he can not act!
Nine Months...it almost felt like it was that long.Only redeeming quality of this film was Robin Williams who, once again, proved that he is the King of Comedy.
A star looking for a break in America signs up to do a sure-thing (a soapy romantic comedy) with lots of big names around to protect him in his first big US movie.
It's hard to know where to start.From the nonchalant acting of Hugh Grant [clearly not INTO the part]to the pathetic, dumpy, frumpy Julianne Moore - missing through half the performance, although she was the carrier...Then there's the storyline - a plea for NOT having babies !
Tom Arnold was great, and Jeff Goldblum, Joan Cusack, and Robin Williams were all perfect.
Although, the family portrayed by Tom Arnold and Joan Cusack was a bit extreme.In conclusion, I will probably watch this film again!!.
Hugh Grant is a very good actor and doesn't deserve to play in such a bad movie.
Hugh Grant plays Samuel and Julianne Moore is Rebecca.
As well as Jeff Goldblum in a role that couldn't be more different from his Jurrasic Park character.Chris Columbus has made a light, enjoyable comedy, though you get the feeling that with each one of his passing films you can clearly see that it would have been handled better in the hands of basically any other director.
They lack complex story lines, interesting problems and elements that make a film great.The main problem in this film is that Hugh Grant and Julianne Moore have no chemistry!
Child psychologist Samuel Faulkner (Hugh Grant) is in a perfect happy relationship with Rebecca Taylor (Julianne Moore).
Hugh Grant's first Hollywood feature film was made a year after Four Weddings & A Funeral, and he co starred with Julianne Moore, who had been around awhile, appearing in small but significant roles in movies like 'Benny & Joon' and 'The Fugitive'.
Tom Arnold, Joan Cusack and Jeff Goldblum are all here giving good support, but it's Robin Williams who steals the movie as a nervous Russain doctor.
Are so jaded by the negative and nasty comedies shown over the last decade that they can't appreciate humor that is tactful and positive No, this is not a film that deserved an Oscar, but it has an excellent message and a string of hilarious scenes that are laugh-out-loud funny.Just give it a try and keep an open mind - and heart.
While I think in another ten years this film will be hard to watch, it was good to see it one last time before it died.
While it didn't quite carry the same punch as it did when I watched it in 1995, it did make want to revisit some of Robin Williams' older films and laugh like I did when I was young.
Plus, I love Hugh Grant in all of his movies I have watched.
Hugh Grant's character, Samuel, has a very strange, unique, male nervous-wise, and silly sense of humor, which constantly makes you laugh throughout the whole movie!
But the beginning was really funny and I'm glad I watched the whole movie, as it has many laughs and feelings.
Tom Arnold & Joan Cusack were the memorable characters and performers, while Hugh Grant & Julianne Moore managed as the lead performers.
This movie was so unbelievably funny I was actually crying.When Tom Arnold's character was at the front door not letting Hugh Grant in to see Julianne Moore, Joan Cusack (sorry if it's misspelled) asks "Who is it?" Arnold goes "It's my mother" "But your mothers dead" "I know its really weird" Hahaha, so funny.and Robin Williams making all the word errors is hysterical."I need a clitoris" "You need a thesaurus, thats what you need" Great movie.P.S. Hugh Grant is a lot better looking now.
I loved it as a comedy (its so funny, it really can make me give a good laugh), as a story about the evolution and the growing of a person (it's not just in the film, I know so many men that are just like Samuel) and I loved it for its actors: I'm a huge fan of Julianne Moore and Robin Williams was just the cherry on the top!
Child Pyschologist Sam (Hugh Grant) has it all, an beautiful girlfriend (Julianne Moore), an great red Porsche and he's living the good life.
This comedy manages to have some touching moments and some big laughs, especially the scene where it involves Grant and Arnold in a department kids stone.
This film was just soo funny, it made me laugh so much, its one of my all time favourite movies because i can watch it over and never get bored of it.
A little like a loony toons cartoon...(No, characters are NOT falling from cliffs and getting squashed)The cast is wonderful and the jokes and slapstick are hilarious, especially the ride-to-the-hospital climax.Watching this movie is a very nice and light way to pass an evening at home..
But, events that happened outside the movie makes some of the dialog in the movie even more funny; though not intentionally.The film has plenty of supporting characters (Julianne Moore, Tom Arnold,Joan Cusack,Jeff Goldblum, Robin Williams) to make it funny without the humor of Grant, but he is the star of this funny movie.
Hugh Grant, Julianne Moore, Robin Williams, Tom Arnold make this a very funny film..
But Grant eventually figures it out, and they get back together.There are lots of funny moments, but I laughed loudest during the penultimate scene, during delivery by the two friends, Moore and Joan Cusack.
Granted everyone may not like this movie for whatever the reason, it still is quite funny.
It's supposed to be a comedy except that it really isn't very funny, there are some issues involved with the casting and the characters, and while it's a comedy that isn't all that funny (or, for that matter, a romance that isn't all that romantic) there are parts of it that actually work reasonably well.Hugh Grant (who plays Samuel) is not someone I consider to be an "A" list actor.
Williams puts on a pretty typical, slapstick Robin Williams performance in the role - but this character was way too over the top and added very little to the movie except a real feeling of total unbelievability.And yet, watching Samuel grow in his level of comfort with pending fatherhood is satisfying.
You expect that a degree of comedy might come from the idea that Samuel is a child psychologist who doesn't want children, but that really isn't central to the movie (and, all things considered, I can actually see why a child psychologist might not want children - after all, he's going to see all the problems!) It's just watching him grow from a guy who's part selfish and part frightened to a guy increasingly comfortable and then even enthusiastic about fatherhood.
But as the pregnancy progresses his indifference becomes clear to Rebecca as he misses or turns up late for scans, protests when he is told by the doctor that his cat will have to be re-homed and that his beloved Porsche will have to be traded in for a family friendly alternative.Throw in his friend (played by Jeff Goldblum), his friend's sister, husband and three errant kids who are nothing but a harsh omen of what the future holds and both external chaos and inner turmoil ensue.Hugh Grant is a master at portraying the suppressed British buffoon and this movie is by no means an exception.
The script is weak and predictable, so it's not surprising that someone wrote in the usual Robin Williams character and set up a San Francisco reckless-driving scene, but it's the acting squad that makes this one worth watching.One odd thing is that the scriptwriter seemed to feel called upon to explain who has money and who doesn't have money, then tripped over the issue anyway.
It has its emotional moments, but it has some slapstick too, and in my opinion does a good job at not going too overboard with either, while maintaining a story.Hugh Grant plays a psychologist who's life seems to be going very well and financially secure, until he gets the news that his wife is pregnant.
''Nine Months'' is one of the coolest comedies I already watched in my life and even not being the best of them all, I think that ''5.2'' is a very low rate for it.
Take director Chris Columbus (Harry Potter) stars Hugh Grant (Four Weddings, Notting Hill, Love Actually), Julianne Moore (Oscar winner) and sprinkle with a little Robin Williams and you can't fail - right?
By watching NINE MONTHS, each of us insensitive men can at last feel such pain.Based on a film written and directed by Patrick Braoudé, NEUF MOIS, Chris Columbus writes and directs NINE MONTHS like a brainless farce rooted in wrong: the wrong way to raise kids, the wrong way to behave during pregnancy, the wrong way to assess morality and the wrong way to medically process a birth (Robin Williams makes an embarrassing cameo as a Russian obstetrician who seems to have his accent confused with his asshole).Marty's (Arnold's) kids are such horrible snots that this movie shoots itself in the womb as it is trying to send the message that kids are precious.Jeff Goldblum is Sean, Samuel's best friend and sworn bachelor.
In the last reel Mr Grant gets round to seeing that "fatherhood",even if accidental, is a "Good Thing" and flies to Miss Moore's side to be present at what must be the most protracted and noisiest birth scene in the movies.Mr Williams dispenses with acting altogether,simply bouncing off various bits of scenery(the very few left unchewed)like a demented pinball.
The only exception could be Robin Williams.Can't really give this movie a good rating.
A good cast and 2 scenes which I liked can't make it up for the fact that the rest of the movie was very bad..
Its antics unlike anything else out there and easily one of my favourite scenes in a film.Hugh Grant had a great career for a long time.
Tom Arnold and Joan Cusack are the stereotypical "best friend" roles although Arnold and Grant have this fun rivalry that really is a great part of the movie.
And I say all that as a person who generally likes Hugh Grant in films.The other thing that just doesn't seem to work here is Robin Williams' stint as a Russian obstetrician.
Being an apparent remake of a French film (in which I have not seen, nor heard of, so I cannot compare it to this), this film is directed by Chris Columbus and stars Hugh Grant as Samuel Faulkner, a child psychologist who is in a romantic relationship with Rebecca Taylor (played by Julianne Moore), a kind-hearted ballet teacher.
Second, this is the first movie I have seen both Hugh Grant and Julianne Moore in (and I don't recall ever seeing Joan Cusack in anything prior to this either).
Basically child psychiatrist Samuel Faulkner (Hugh Grant) and ballet teacher Rebecca Taylor (Julianne Moore) have been boyfriend and girlfriend for five years, and never thought to commit to each other, i.e. marriage and kids.
Moore is reliable as Grant's pregnant other half, Arnold is a little annoying, Cusack is alright, Goldblum has his moments, and Williams makes the most as the manic obstetrician.
Samuel (Hugh Grant)is a child psychiatrist whose beautiful longtime girlfriend Rebecca (Julianne Moore)announces her pregnancy.
Problem is, his command of the English language (coupled with the fact that he never delivered a human baby) makes things even more crazy.Despite some predictability, "Nine Months," which is the American version of "Neuf Mois," the popular French film, is actually sweet and at some times touching (The scene when Samuel watches the tape of the ultrasound of his unborn child can bring a slight moisture to the eyes).Director Chris Columbus did a good job, though.
Hugh Grant, Juliane Moore could be a knocking couple for this movie, but the lines and the action makes it an average film, which respects the typical comedy story.
And it definitely should not be too optimistic because life is not.I don't recommend this movie, not even if you want to laugh and have a good time.
If that is what you expect from a movie than you'd better watch American Pie or other like that one, which you know from the start they don't have any hidden theme or idea to think about..
Basically Sam(Hugh Grant) and Rebecca(Julianne Moore) are living together and seem to have this perfect life.
Robin Williams only has one scene in this film, but it has become my favourite scene in the whole movie.
Hugh Grant is great as is Julianne Moore.
And Hugh Grant cause me a great good impression in this movie.