This movie saved my life from getting pregnant. I saw this movie when I was 12 years old and at that age I wanted a son in the WORST way, after seeing this movie I saw how a teen pregnancy can ruin your life so 10 years later I am still stay abstinent. It was a great movie it showed the struggles of raising a baby at a young age and every young girl who's thinking about becoming a young mom should see this so they think twice before getting pregnant. It is a great movie and Drew Barrymore does a great job at playing Beverly. I cried at the end knowing how having a baby ruined her life. So if you're able to buy or rent this movie, you should. Very lovely movie and if every young girl watched this movie the teen pregnancy rates would go down drastically.

The movie is very nice and has a nice story line... Drew Barrymore and Brittany Murphy (RIP) are good and i m reviewing this movie because Brittany Murphy just Died. Thats very sad lets come back to the review...The story is nice, but needed a good director for a emotional and sensitive direction ...Penny Marshall failed to do it (Direction was OK though).I don't think that any body will rate it less than 7....Nice movie with a lot of flaws. but sweet and sad ending.Generous rating 9/10.

I watched this movie last night, expecting to watch an empowering movie about a strong woman. What I got was a story about an overbearing, rigid mom who makes stupid decisions and winds up in bad situations, but her predicaments are her own fault, despite a pesky conscience and caring parents. She even tells her son (not once but several times, mind you) that he ruined her life- nice parenting! Penny Marshall could have done a better job with the way she portrayed Beverly D'Onofrio (played by Drew Barrymore).What a disappointment! Not one person dies in this movie, which says a lot about how depressing this movie really is because I didn't think that a movie without a body count could be so depressing. This was neither uplifting nor empowering.On the plus side, the acting was really good. Even Lorraine Bracco, who plays D'Onofrio's mother, was good in this film, and I usually can't stand her. But even the brilliant performances by the actors couldn't save this film.

It's a shame that this movie can't be shown in high schools, as an educational video. It would certainly serve a terrific purpose, of how one small mistake can change the rest of your life forever.Beverly (Barrymore), at fifteen, falls in love with the quarterback of the football team. She decides one night at a party to show her love to him, by presenting him with a poem, she's written for him. Unfortunately, being as naive as she is, she presents it to him, in front of all of his friends, where she is then made fun of. Feeling sorry for herself, and very hurt, she runs upstairs to the bathroom, in the house where the party is taking place, crying. There, she meets the man she will soon fall for, and give herself to, for the very first time. However, this boy is not the boy she wants to marry, but is forced to, by her parents, because she is now pregnant. At fifteen, and married, she is now faced with a new life, and new responsibilities. The movie circles around this new life, and how she is able to overcome so much, with so very little. Her deadbeat husband, small and poor home, young child to raise, and at time hopeless future, all gang up on her, while she tries to overcome all of it. Her dreams are not unrealistic, but rather unreachable because of all the problems and mishaps that happen throughout the next fifteen years of her life.It's poignant, sweet, funny and honest. There is not one person who will watch this, and not relate to at least one thing from the story. Although it may take place in the 1960s-80s, it's still very true to life, and understandable.I would recommend it to anyone, and hope that everyone will see the power of a message this film holds. It's really an amazing true story, and there aren't many like this out there.