#junior 1994

A fact about the world is that there exists a movie wherein danny devito mpregs arnold schwarzeneggar with emma thompson's baby. It came out thirty whole fucking years ago, thanksgiving season 1994. It's got this weird thing going on where if you're reading it through a trans lens it ricochets between extremely transmasc (male pregnancy!) and extremely transfem (arnold's character is literally on hrt & at points presents intentionally as a woman). Emma Thompson has some lines that read as incredibly, jarringly terfy, but her character eventually comes around. Watched this last night for my friends' weird movie monday and it's an oddly competent film that was clearly intended to be a "hey cis men, empathize with cis women!" statement but like. Winds up simultaneously portraying bits of transition & getting them surprisingly accurate for the time & asking "what if biological sex were more malleable than we assume" and yet there is only one mention of the real-life existance of trans people (to compare Arnold's hormone regimen to "someone preparing for a sex change operation"). It's like if someone adapted a novel-length mpreg fic from the mid-2000s to screen. It flopped in the box office but I desperately need tumblr to know it exists what a fascinating cultural artifact

We were watching Junior (1994) sci-fi rom-com mpreg movie, and my sister asked why it was made? I said that someone wanted to see Arnold Schwarzenegger pregnant, and my mother (58 years old conservative woman) straight-up giggled.