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Junior (1994)

★ 5.2 · 1,630 ratings on TMDB

Nothing is inconceivable.

Junior poster★ 5.2

A research scientist becomes the world's first pregnant man in order to test a drug he and a colleague have designed for expectant women. To carry out the trial, he has an embryo implant, believing that he will only carry the baby for three months – hardly expecting to face the prospect of giving birth.

DirectorIvan Reitman
CastAida Turturro, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Emma Thompson, Frank Langella, James Eckhouse
GenresComedy, Science Fiction
The emergence reading

Junior keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

zero-distanceUS
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E6pregnancymale bodies are capable of gestating a pregnancy (biological rule altered) (biology · personal)
Also inFilms that alter a rule of reality
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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Also bends a rule of reality

Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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