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Released
2009 · FILM

Labor Pains

A young woman fakes a pregnancy to avoid being fired, only to find herself trapped in a web of lies when everyone starts treating her like a future mother.

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Runtime
89 min
ComedyRomance

Synopsis

A young woman pretends to be pregnant to avoid being fired from her job. When the deception earns her special treatment from everyone in her life, she decides to maintain the lie for the full nine months.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Anne MccabeShot by Dan StoloffScored by Andrew HollanderDesigned by Daniel Bradford

Box Office

2009 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.2× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$1.9M

Budget$10.0M
Worldwide gross$1.9M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • (K)Ein bisschen schwangerde
  • En cloque mais pas tropfr
  • Incinta o... quasiit

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