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IMDB rating: 5.80 Plot: After a series of ill-fated relationships, Jane (Ashley Judd) has finally met Mr. Right, Ray (Greg Kinnear) – he’s emotionally available, and not afraid of commitment. Six weeks into their blissful courtship, he asks her to move in with him, and they start looking at apartments. But little by little Ray starts to pull away, until Jane realizes that once again she’s been dumped. Jane’s womanizing coworker, Eddie, just happens to be looking for a roommate, and Jane reluctantly moves in. Desperate to understand what happened and get over Ray, Jane comes up with a theory of interpreting male-female relations by observing the behaviors of wild animals. She shares this idea with a friend who works at a men’s magazine (Marisa Tomei) and is given an anonymous editorial column devoted solely to her thoughts on the matter. But no one could have predicted the chord she’d strike among women with her theory, and the column’s wild success makes Jane start to question her conclusions – and opens her eyes to what might be right in front of her. |
Actors: Kinnear Greg,Jackman Hugh,Friedman Peter,Reddin Keith,Grant Derick Karlton,Coyle Matthew,Yang Pon,Comedy,Romance,
Do you find this troubling? Do you know anyone like this?
I’ve known a handful of people (non-parents) to be obsessed with babies, mostly back in school, but one I actually still know very well. I don’t mean obsessed in the usual sense someone might be ‘obsessed’ with babies. I mean the type that get a crazed look in their eye whenever a baby comes close and if they ever hold a baby you have to virtually prize it back off them, they talk constantly about babies and what they will do when they have one (bear in mind these are people a long way off having children), how they think everyone else around them is doing such a better job, comments such as "That baby should be mine because I would be a better parent" uttered just in reference to a normal woman walking down the street with a pram, people who go out of their way to befriend people with babies and who plan on having children in all manner of unconventional ways (holes in condoms, ‘forgotten’ pills, meeting strangers for the purpose of one night stands, etc). I notice it tends to correlate with a history of lying/making up scenarios.
I’ve also seen a few childless people on here that seem to be pretty similar to this sort of character: regulars on the parenting section in their teens when they have no kids/don’t work with kids/aren’t TTC, often have pictures of friends or families babies up and give out parenting advice, ask parenting questions and feign parenthood unless directly asked, visibly dream about having a baby beyond what can surely be considered a normal level, and have a history of having lied about having kids and been caught out.
The one girl I mentioned I still know very well, I’m quite sure has a screw loose somewhere. And it does trouble me because one of these days she really will go out and get pregnant somehow (she’s 22 so it’s not her age that’s an issue any more but rather her expectations of parenthood) – and she is so obsessively fixated on her ideas of what parenthood will be for her (which are for the most part entirely unrealistic, no concept whatsoever that there is real hard work involved, and worryingly she hasn’t accepted that they grow older than ‘babyhood’ fairly quickly – she is not interested in older ages) that I worry for her mental health and the child’s wellbeing when she learns what things are truly like. And the same goes for anyone else like that, there seems to be a few of them around.
Does anybody else know anyone like this? Did they ever GET the baby they so desperately dreamed of, and if so, did things fall apart around their ears? Or did they adapt to the reality of it and cope okay? And did their ‘crazy’ obsession die down after they had a baby or did it keep going strong?
I think alot of these girls become obsessed with having a Baby to love and having a baby (something) to need them. These girls want to know what love is. They have no idea what having a baby is like. I also think that in todays society we are material lovers. We are so spoiled with getting what we want that when ou attention turns to a BABY! we want that too.
I noticed that alot of the top contributors in here and young girls too! The must be reading alot of baby books.
VEry weird!
lisa mommy | Feb 09, 2010
No TG I don’t know anyone like that. That does trouble me though…makes me think future kidnapper.
RAVEN | Feb 09, 2010
i once ate out at a restaurant with my husband and baby and one of the servers just was obsessed with her. not just "cute baby" and a smile, but she would not stop talking to and about her, touching her, etc. then she started begging us if she could hold the baby for us while we ate. when we said no thanks, she kept insisting.
yeah, i was totally ready to spring out of my chair and knock her to the ground if she came a single step closer.
some people do have unhealthy obsessions (though some others just really like or want kids).
desmeran (emeritus) | Feb 09, 2010
That is weird..no I do not personally know anyone like this..I don’t think..but that is weird..
Dylan Ethans Mom Lillian due feb | Feb 09, 2010
