Quartile rating: 5.5/10 · 1 rating
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.
Labor Pains is a formulaic romantic comedy built around a one-note premise that offers little surprise or depth. The fake-pregnancy conceit is milked predictably, with the inevitable unraveling and reconciliation hitting every expected beat. Acting is serviceable but unremarkable, with Lindsay Lohan in a lightweight role that asks little of her. Cinematography is flat and TV-movie in quality, lacking any visual ambition. The ending resolves tidily but without earned emotional weight. The film is competently assembled but thoroughly generic across all dimensions.