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Labor Pains: Season 1
  • Network: ABC Family
  • Series Premiere Date: Jul 19, 2009
  • Season #: 1
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Metascore
55 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 7 Critics What's this?

User Score
5.9 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 7 Ratings

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10 out of 10
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  • Summary: Thea (Lindsay Lohan) fakes a pregnancy to avoid being fired, but soon finds keeping the ruse up harder to do when she gets a promotion because of her pregnancy.
  • Genre(s): Comedy, Movie/Mini-Series

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Leah Greenblatt
    75
    It may not be the stuff Emmy dreams are made of, but it's still goofy, broad-strokes summer fun.
  2. The Hollywood Reporter
    60
    Pains succeeds because of Lohan. As Thea, a publishing-house secretary living on the financial brink who rashly lies that she's pregnant just before her boss fires her, Lohan is a bright light in the center of an otherwise a fair-to-middling telefilm.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Alessandra Stanley
    60
    The movie's premise--a secretary who feigns pregnancy to avoid being fired--isn't terrible and neither is Ms. Lohan. Mostly because of how her part was written, it takes too long for Ms. Lohan to shed her Hollywood reputation and wan, stilted demeanor and get into the role.

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User Reviews

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 1 out of 4
  1. TomK.
    9
    I really liked the movie...it made me laugh a lot.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. MasterMK
    5
    It was ok but it was too predictable and had a stale story line.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. DReisch
    2
    Awful. Terrible acting, terrible execution of plot, waste of my life.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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