In Nine Months, writer-director Chris Columbus' remake of Patrick Braoude's little seen French film, Neuf Mois, Hugh Grant plays a dapper San Francisco child psychologist who goes ape-shit when his girlfriend of five years, played by Julianne More, informs him that she's pregnant. Compounding his apprehension about the changes fatherhood will invariably impose upon his freewheeling lifestyle, are misguided and downright wacky words of wisdom from his insufferable best friend and a suburban married couple from hell. After scoring big with Mrs. Doubtfire, Columbus has taken a nose dive with a predictable, instantly forgetable would-be comedy that even Robin Williams' cameo as a foreign obstetrician given to sprouting malapropisms cannot salvage. While his recent arrest by the vice squad for soliciting the services of a hooker continues to vilify him in the court of public opinion, it's actually films like Nine Months that pose the biggest threat to Hugh Grant's career.
