She Woke Up Pregnant (1996) Reviews

• You can't beat me....heard that one before!

  Eight Two2004-04-30

  I enjoyed this bleary-eyed melodrama, with a title as tabloidy as any 1950s science fiction B-picture (which this is most certainly not) and a pair of lead performances that hold you through the sometimes dull predictabilities of the story. Wronged, made-for-television women don't come any more emotionally vulnerable than Michele Greene, who, after learning of a mysterious pregnancy, accuses her dentist of raping her while she lay under sedation. Looking like Paige Davis just out of rehab, Ms. Greene doles out her character's screaming and crying judiciously, as if she were rebelling against the teleplay's original directives. With eyes that can gaze wistfully past the grey Toronto horizon as well as stare down various male tormentors (be it the villanous doctor Joe Penny or her disloyal, mistrustful husband William R. Moses) with equal woundedness, Ms. Greene offers the audience a veritable graduate-school course in Lifetime histrionics, without ever succumbing to silliness. As the bad doctor who just can't keep his hands to himself (notably so in the third act!), personification of evil Mr. Penny represents yuppie scum in its most rabid left-wing perception: not only is he a cocky, middle-aged, physically imposing rapist with a comb-over and a dated sports car, but he occupies a profession as bland and emasculating as dentist. One gets the subtextual impression that he's still resentful that he's not a "real" doctor, and with this rage, Mr. Penny icily delivers lines like "You can't beat me" or "You'll never prove anything, because I'm the man and you're the woman" and sends moderate shivers up your spine, if only for the actor's bracing commitment to such a throwaway movie. As it grows more and more plausible that the final 50 pages of the script were written in a pizza & cocaine-fueled hurry (with Ms. Greene's character musing like Adam West on how to attain a young, beautiful undercover policewoman who also needs a great deal of dental work for a sting operation), one can begin to ask themselves honestly how much better this film would have been starring Ashley Judd and Alec Baldwin, and then, inevitably, one may begin to wonder about what's stopping those actors' careers from being completely replaced, like pod people, with the more obscure but equally competent talents of She Woke Up Pregnant's leads.

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• She Woke Up Pregnant-Biology Never Lies ****

  edwagreen2007-08-14

  Very interesting story which we can certainly relate to in our times. Connie, who is married with 2 children, finds herself pregnant. Tests indicate that her husband is not the father and naturally his suspicions are aroused. This is so since he had a vasectomy and the couple had briefly separated for 3 weeks. Suspicion soon falls on the dentist who had put her to sleep during a dental procedure. The dentists surprises all by admitting that he is the father but claiming that the 2 had an affair so the sex was consensual. Interestingly, Joe Penny plays the evil dentist and you really come to hate him. Joe has become like Richard Chamberlain and Perry King, the macho guy of television movies. Both parties bring charges against each other and it is very interesting to see how Penny is trapped at the end. The film depicts an almost end to a marriage, before the husband realizes that his wife is a victim. The film shows the intricacies of the court system and how you have to maneuver around it. Well acted and quite interesting. Makes you shutter when you have to go under for any procedure.

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• great movie with erotic appeal

  rk24game2004-11-15

  spoiler!! this movie is about a dentist who sedates his patients for surgery, and then molests or rapes them. his first victim wakes up later, finds out she is pregnant, gets excited, until her husband proves to her that it cannot possibly be his. on her quest to take down the doctor, she finds another patient the doctor raped, and then sets up an undercover cop to take down the sleaze bag. finally, the doctor is set up one night after work when he sedates the female cop. as she falls asleep, he unbuttons her blouse...the proceeds to grope and caress her thighs and breasts. as he unzips his pants, he is caught and arrested.

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• Not Bad

  joyfuljen2522004-10-21

  I'm actually watching this movie on Lifetime right now. I think this is a pretty good movie. Granted, nowadays, we're used to special effects and all kinds of other things added to movies... and this one really has none of that. What it does have, however is a good storyline. It's almost unbelievable at the beginning... but toward the end you're really fighting for her because it seems that she's up against some incredible odds. Definitely one of those "empowering women" kind of movies. (Probably why it's on Lifetime...) The acting is definitely not horrible... she definitely has talent, as well as the actors who play the husband and the dentist. The husband goes through a series of emotions, and the actor captures every one of them perfectly. The actor who plays the dentist... he nails the dentist as a real creep.

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• A enjoyable and a well styled movie

  Magicpearl19742004-09-17

  The movie is concerning one of those important issues rape,no matter what degree it's still a crime that should be punished and this movie states both. Joe Penny is that actor who is well known for the guy you want to get to know because hes kind and talented, he's amazing in any role and this movie strengthens that belief. He plays the swath,evil dentist to perfection. You get to the point where you want him to get caught because of he's crime but you can not help loving him, he's amazing! The other actors are good but I recorded this movie for Joe's perfect talent he does every role with perfection. Well worth watching.

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