This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Pseudo remake of Sandra Dee's " Doctor, you've got to be kidding ?". The premise is the same, girl has a few guy friends and she winds up pregnant, and all these guys are okay with that! The story of course has changed a bit for the times, but overall it's the same. Even the bumbling, "I'm the father", lines that the guys spout before the baby's delivery. I mean at least in the 60's there where no DNA tests but really, in this day and age I Know someone would have said look lets go on "Maury" and settle this. I mean yes I sat thru it because I wanted to know what was going to happen, and yes I even watched it a 2nd time because I thought I may have missed something, but when I saw the original just last night on TCM I was disappointed in the 1999 version. It's a remake even if it wasn't supposed to be.

I watched this movie because there are very few films that have rowing in them. However, unless you want to laugh at just how badly the rowing sequences are filmed (and how horribly the "coxswain" is portrayed), I would not recommend this movie. It is not a romantic comedy, nor does it shed light on any sort of feminist idea. It is a bad movie with bad writing, acting, editing and filming. I will admit it did cause quite a few unintentional laughs, but that is not usually enough for someone to endure almost two hours of bad film-making. The plot is about four guys who want to compete at a regatta, and so they need a coxswain, and they find one in Kimberly. From there, all four have a romantic interest in her. The plot follows in a very predictable way from there.

This includes "spoilers" but the thing is already so thoroughly rotten, it shouldn't matter, unless you want to be surprised at just how unbelievably lame a flick can be...You know the kind of film you somehow find yourself accidentally watching and are unable to look away, as if it were a car wreck... Kimberly is one of those.Sure she's adorable, but... really! In brief, she's coaching four buddies on a rowing team, and they all vow not to date her, but of course each does, without any of the others knowing... When she turns up pregnant, she tells the boys she wants them all to be dads... the guys bicker a little, but agree. It's ludicrous! No one seems to want any kind of paternity testing, or cares that there's only a 1/4 chance they ARE the father (well, the one guy who KNOWS he's not, just pretends to not know because he's so darned sensitive)... The only one who calls her "a slut" is the one was cheating on his own girlfriend, so I guess that's supposed to nullify that prospect. (Of the remaining two, one's a spastic manchild who passed out drunk and doesn't know he never slept with Kimmie, and the other is a neurotic who actually IS the father, unless there was a 5th gun...)So they're all being supportive, buying her things, arranging the medical care, wigging out their family members, etc. and when it comes to delivery time, things get all wacky with loads of "screwball hijinx" as everyone rushes to the hospital. The delivery scene continues this jarring "comedic" tilt...In the end, the non-fathers discover they were somewhat misled by the Row Ho' as I like to call her, but golly gee, Kim's such a swell gal, they don't mind that this whole thing basically ruined their lives in one way or another. Never mind about the real dad... the guy whose main solo scenes show him in therapy... sure, let him think she's screwing EVERYONE, he can handle it.Not to spoil EVERYTHING, I won't tell you whether the "rowing team" (out-of-shape and mentally disturbed as they are) wins the big race against the obligatorily clad-in-black bad guy team :)

Well, ever since I read about the making of this movie all the way back in the fall of 1998, I've been anxiously awaiting to see this film on the big screen. Being a huge Patty Duke fan and someone who really respects the work of her son, Sean Astin, I couldn't wait to see it. The fact that it's filmed here in Philly helped me want to really see it too.When I got to meet Ms. Duke while she was filming her Patty Duke reunion tv movie up in Montreal in 12/98, I asked her about this film. She said it was an odd little film, that her son Sean was in. She just had a cameo in it, as the doctor who delivers the baby towards the end of the film, and if you blinked, you'd miss her. She also said that her son called her up begging her to do it because the person originally hired for the part had to bail out at the last minute and they were stuck, and had to shoot it in a few days. Before Sean could go any further, Patty said to him "Honey, now, let's get to the important part: what are they gonna be paying me?!"She said of her one day on the set that Sean, being the ever so protective son, made everyone stop cursing around the set. Patty then turned to Sean and asked "Does this mean I have to stop cursing too??".With a great cast including, Sean, Molly Ringwald, Chris Rydell, the ever so handsome Scott Lewis, and Gabrielle Anwar as the title charecter, you can't go wrong, even if it's only on a measly two million dollar budget. Let's just say that you can't tell while watching that it was so low budget.The only problem I had with it was that it was way too obvious to me who, out of the four men, the father was, since he was presented in a different way than the others a little later in the film.Laine Kazan is hysterical as Rydell's shrink and of course Patty Duke is brilliant in her 4 minute role as Doctor Feinstenberger (love that name!)All and all---a beatiful ensemble piece with great direction and an eloquent score!