Labor Pains

Labor Pains (2009)

Some stories just keep on growing

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.

Date of release
2009-06-19
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (465)
Runtime
1h 29m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Lara Shapiro

Casting

Interesting facts

Labor Pains is a 2009 American romantic comedy film directed by Lara Shapiro, who also wrote it with Stacy Kramer. It stars Lindsay Lohan as an unreliable assistant at a publishing house who fakes a pregnancy to avoid being fired by her boss. Luke Kirby, Bridgit Mendler, Chris Parnell, Cheryl Hines, Kevin Covais, Aaron Yoo and Tracee Ellis Ross also star in supporting roles.

Production

Labor Pains began as a production under Capitol Films in June 2007. Due to budget issues regarding another film, Nailed, Millennium Films and Overnight Productions took over the project. Overnight's Rick Schwartz produced the film with Lati Grobman and Celine Rattray of Plum Pictures.

Days before production began, it was officially announced Lohan had been cast in the lead role of the romantic comedy, after having recently pulled out of a number of projects, including All's Faire in Love, Poor Things and Manson Girls. Chris Parnell, Cheryl Hines, Luke Kirby, Kevin Covais and Janeane Garofalo were later announced as part of the cast. Connie Britton was initially slated to have a role in the film.

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