Fresh
A happy, healthy, bouncing baby of a movie.
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
Junior
Nothing is inconceivable.
1994 · 1h 50m · PG-13
Comedy, Science Fiction
Directed by
Ivan Reitman
Overview
A research scientist becomes the world's first pregnant man in order to test a drug he and a colleague have designed for expectant women. To carry out the trial, he has an embryo implant, believing that he will only carry the baby for three months – hardly expecting to face the prospect of giving birth.
Director and cast
- Ivan Reitman Director
- Arnold Schwarzenegger as Dr. Alex Hesse
- Danny DeVito as Dr. Larry Arbogast
- Emma Thompson as Dr. Diana Reddin
- Frank Langella as Noah Banes
- Pamela Reed as Angela
- Aida Turturro as Louise
- Megan Cavanagh as Willow
- James Eckhouse as Ned Sneller
- Welker White as Jenny
- Christopher Meloni as Mr. Lanzarotta
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
36%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The plot is a more fertile ground for comedy than the 'sperm milkshake' that made Schwarzenegger and Danny De Vito brothers in Reitman's Twins.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Rotten
Junior demands more range from its leading man than he's capable of giving. The predictable result is a big-budget mess more likely to elicit groans than laughter.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
Fresh
A fleecy romantic caper with a dusting of feminism, the picture is basically a one-joke movie successfully nursed by director Ivan Reitman.
Rita Kempley, Washington Post
Rotten
For the right audience, Junior may deliver. But there's a whole lot of pregnancy to go through first.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
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