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What to Expect When You're Expecting
MEANRANK
55/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4680
- IMDb #4979
- Rotten Tomatoes #4524
- Metacritic #4298
- Letterboxd #4589
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4990
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4180
- Metacritic Critics #4184
- Metacritic Audience #4182
- Douban #2249
- Kinopoisk #3746
- AlloCiné #4253
- Trakt #4380
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 23, highest is Google on 80. Critics average 32, everyone else 60.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →The lives of several couples in Atlanta intersect as they each experience the challenges of impending parenthood. Their stories range from the struggles of conception to the physical and emotional rollercoaster of pregnancy, capturing the humor, anxiety, joy, and surprises that come with expecting a baby and the complete upheaval of life as they know it.
Details
- Director
- Kirk Jones
- Writers
- Heather Hach, Shauna Cross
- Based on
- What to Expect When You're Expecting by Heidi Murkoff
- Released
- 17 May 2012
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $40.0M
- Box office
- $79.7M
- Awards
- 1 win, 13 nominations
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Awards & nominations
See all 14 →1 win from 14 nominations across 5 ceremonies
| ALMA Awards 2012 | Favorite Movie Actress Comedy/Musical | Cameron Diaz | Nominee |
| ALMA Awards 2012 | Favorite Movie Actress Comedy/Musical | Jennifer Lopez | Nominee |
| ALMA Awards 2012 | Favorite Movie Actor | Rodrigo Santoro | Nominee |
| People's Choice Awards 2012 | Favorite Comedic Movie | Nominee | |
| People's Choice Awards 2012 | Favorite Comedic Movie Actress | Cameron Diaz | Nominee |
| Premios Juventud 2012 | She Steals the Show | Jennifer Lopez | Winner |
| Razzie Awards 2012 | Worst Supporting Actress | Jennifer Lopez | Nominee |
| Razzie Awards 2012 | Worst Supporting Actress | Brooklyn Decker | Nominee |
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14 awards — What to Expect When You're Expecting
×| She Steals the Show | Jennifer Lopez | Winner |
| Choice Movie Actor: Comedy | Chris Rock | Nominee |
| Choice Movie Actress: Comedy | Cameron Diaz | Nominee |
| Choice Movie Actress: Comedy | Jennifer Lopez | Nominee |
| Choice Movie: Breakout | Joe Manganiello | Nominee |
| Choice Movie: Comedy | Nominee | |
| Choice Movie: Male Scene Stealer | Chace Crawford | Nominee |
| Favorite Movie Actor | Rodrigo Santoro | Nominee |
| Favorite Movie Actress Comedy/Musical | Cameron Diaz | Nominee |
| Favorite Movie Actress Comedy/Musical | Jennifer Lopez | Nominee |
| Favorite Comedic Movie | Nominee | |
| Favorite Comedic Movie Actress | Cameron Diaz | Nominee |
| Worst Supporting Actress | Jennifer Lopez | Nominee |
| Worst Supporting Actress | Brooklyn Decker | Nominee |