10 Movies to Watch When You're Expecting

Raising Arizona

Rated: PG-13

Year: 1987

Cast: Holly Hunter, Nicolas Cage, John Goodman

Some couples are so desperate to have a child, they'll steal one. Hunter is a police photographer who yearns for a child. She orders her ex-con husband to kidnap one of the Arizona quintuplets, figuring the infant won't be missed. "Sometimes it's a hard world for small things," confides Cage of the baby everyone wants to keep.

What Parents Like: Cage explains their childless predicament in colorful, humorous terms: "Edwina's insides were a rocky place where my seed could find no purchase."

Parenting 101: You never forget the children you have and the children you imagine.