getting pregnant

Junior, released in 1994, is Arnold Schwarzenegger's third comedy film, which features him teamed up with Danny DeVito, following their previous collaboration, Twins and director Ivan Reitman, who also directed Schwarzenegger in that film and Kindergarten Cop. Junior is the second film ever to revolve around the world's first male pregnancy. The other was Rabbit Test.

Was originally supposed to be a Hulk Hogan and Christopher Lloyd movie but Hogan turned down the movie offer because he was about to win the WCW title and didn't want this movie to make the title a joke which he feared would. Lloyd turned this movie offer down as he felt if it wasn't good enough for a professional wrestler, it wouldn't be good enough for an actor.

Junior features Schwarzenegger as Alex Hesse, one member of a team of gynaecological scientists (himself and Dr. Larry Arbogast, played by DeVito) who have invented a new super-fertility drug, "Expectane", which will reduce the chances of a woman's body rejecting an embryo and thus causing a miscarriage.

When their research funding is withdrawn, and human experimentation is denied to them, they decide to pull a publicity stunt— an egg is taken from the ovum cryonics department, anonymously donated by the scientist who they share a lab with, Dr. Diane Reddin (Emma Thompson), fertilized with Alex's sperm, and finally placed in Alex's abdominal cavity, after which he is heavily dosed with Expectane, progesteron and oestrogen.

The experiment is only supposed to last for 3 months until they have the datas they need to get sponsored by a Canadian institution, but Alex has a change of mind as he realizes this pregnancy is exactly what he needs to get out of the shell of he has always surrounded himself with, and actually goes through with the whole pregnancy. While Alex is pregnant, Larry has to hide him from the media and from the members of the university that used to fund their research, as all results of the research (a.k.a the baby) is university property. Eventually, Noah Banes, a previous colleuage of Alex and Larry, finds out about the baby and is ready to have Alex locked up until the end of the pregnancy, but with Larry's help Alex manages to escape. He leaves the city and hides out at a home for expecting mothers (disguised as a woman).

Later Alex gives birth by caesaerian section and keeps the baby. The baby is a girl who gets the name Junior.

The main plot and the humour is based around Alex undergoing the physical changes of pregnancy, though there is a romantic side plot about Diane falling in love with him, before finding out that Alex is pregnant and that they used her egg to impregnate him, then getting upset with the whole situation, before she goes to Alex and tells him that it doesn't matter if he is the pregnant one; she is still the mother, and he is still the father. Alex agrees with her, and the two reconcile, shortly befor Junior is born. At the end of the movie, Diane is pregnant with their (technically second) child.

Another part of the plot is Larry's ex-wife Angela's (played by Pamela Reed) getting pregnant with another man so soon after the divorce, which was mainly caused by the fact that Larry couldn't get her pregnant in the first place. At the end of the movie, Larry delivers his ex-wife's child and the two of them decide to raise the baby boy (Jake) together.

External links

• Junior at the Internet Movie Database