1994 · comedy · sci-fi
Junior
Directed by Ivan Reitman1h 50m1994
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.
Our read: Junior (1994) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy · sci-fi entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
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- gentle
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