A young woman pretends to be pregnant in order to avoid being fired from her job. When that gets her a bunch of special treatment by everyone involved in her life, she tries to keep up the lie for nine months.
Acting
Lohan's last rom-com sparkle before the wilderness years.
Costume
Progressively absurd maternity fashion as lie inflation.
Director
Lara Shapiro
Lindsay Lohan
Thea Dixon
Luke Kirby
Nick Steinwald
Chris Parnell
Jerry Steinwald
Aaron Yoo
Miles
Bridgit Mendler
Emma
Tracee Ellis Ross
Kristin
Kevin Covais
Greg
Bonnie Somerville
Suzie Cavandish
Cheryl Hines
Lisa DePardo
Creed Bratton
Abbott
Janeane Garofalo
Claire
Keiko Agena
Pregnant Bookstore Woman
Jack Axelrod
O'Keefe
Alexandra Barreto
Pretty Woman
Jenni Blong
Pregnant Soccer Mom #1
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Lindsay Lohan's final leading role in a theatrical release before her career pivot to reality TV and sporadic indie projects. The timing—post-rehab, pre-Liz & Dick—gives every scene accidental documentary energy.
The fake pregnancy trope peaked in 2000s rom-coms (Baby Mama, The Switch) as delayed motherhood anxiety met corporate ladder anxiety. This one just happens to star the era's most surveilled female body.
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