Whenever I feel the need of comfort, I love to get ‘Baby Boom’ off the video shelf, get a nice glass of white wine and curl up under a blanket on my sofa to watch this charming 106 minute film in a Romantic/ Comedy genre.
**Plot**
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The writing-directing team of Charles Shyer and Nancy Meyers (Father of the Bride) made ... more
this sweet satire about a high-powered yuppie executive (Diane Keaton) who unexpectedly becomes a mom and finds she can't successfully integrate the role into her b...
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Diane Keaton is a high-powered career woman who inherits a baby - and discovers a side of ... more
herself she never knew she had... a maternal one! C0-starring Sam Shepard and James Spader, this sophisticated, screwball comedy about the pitfalls and payoffs of...
When workaholic J.C. Wiatt inherits a baby girl she finds that her life is no longer her ... more
own. Fleeing the big city to work in the country she develops with baby Elizabeth's help a new brand of baby food which soon becomes a huge success to prompt th...
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this sweet satire about a high-powered yuppie executive (Diane Keaton) who unexpectedly becomes a mom and finds she can't successfully integrate the role into her busy life. Typical of the Shyer-Meyers films prior to Myers taking the director's reins on the wonderfulParent Trap,Baby Boomis a little wooden and more sentimental than genuine. But there are entertaining moments, for sure, and Keaton is a delight.--Tom Keogh
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In 2006, the first baby boomers turned 60, unleashing a veritable tidal wave of gloomy ... more
punditry, advertising for financial services, and forecasts of impending national bankruptcy. This work rejects such catastrophic predictions. It forecasts baby boomers' career plans, health trends, and cultural and political values.
Comedy - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring: Tessa Peake-Jones, Buster Merryfield, David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst
Comedy - Director: Richard Boden, Mandie Fletcher, Martin Shardlow - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Hugh Laurie, Miranda Richardson, Stephen Fry, Brian Blessed, Tim McInnerny, Tony Robinson, Rowan Atkinson
Advantages: A GREAT FEEL GOOD FILM. Disadvantages: Why does the baby go during the middle of the film?
...turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant English relative. She appears ‘to have it all’: money, a successful job, great education plus a steady relationship. Diane Keaton plays the notable businesswomen, J.C. whose life is turned upside down with the arrival of a baby-in-arms (literally). The baby is a thirteen-month old girl called Elizabeth. I wonder if Elizabeth was chosen to emphasise the British connection!
Baby Boom is ... ...her new venture with a baby food product.
4) Selfishness
A must have society, treading on the weak to succeed. Even in the Vermont town money is important. Outsiders of the town are exploited for monetary gains.
E.g. J.C. and her need for a competent workman/handyman.
Visitors to the store wanted to buy the ‘Gourmet Baby Food’.
As to recounting scenes, well I would rather ... more
Whenever I feel the need of comfort, I love to get ‘Baby Boom’ off the video shelf, get a nice glass of white wine and curl up under a blanket on my sofa to watch this charming 106 minute film in a Romantic/ Comedy genre.
**Plot**
‘Baby Boom’ documents the life of super-yuppie J.C. Wiatt (we never know her Christian names) who is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant English relative. She appears ‘to have it all’: money, a successful job, great education plus a steady relationship. Diane Keaton plays the notable businesswomen, J.C. whose life is turned upside down with the arrival of a baby-in-arms (literally). The baby is a thirteen-month old girl called Elizabeth. I wonder if Elizabeth was chosen to emphasise the British connection!
Baby Boom is a funny yet in some ways a touching story of motherly responsibilities too. It illustrates how a child takes over where work was once the substitute child.
J.C.’s boy friend, Stephen is an investment banker. He is a total bore, sexual intercourse in three minutes flat! He leaves her as soon as he realises that she is keeping Elizabeth. J.C. has gone as far as a woman can go as career person in the 1980’s. The first half of ‘Baby Boom’ is frenetic. J.C. has to deal with the frustrations of early motherhood and handle her job almost at the same time. It does not work out for her and she leaves both the Company (where she had been expecting to be made a partner) and New York with Elizabeth, moving instead to Vermont. Her money is slowly absorbed into her six-acre estate.
‘Baby Boom’ can be quite inspiring for those who are leaving a dependent employment relationship either of their own will or because they are being forced out of it. It drives home the point that given a unique idea, sufficient market research, passion and power, anyone can make it successful in the world of ‘big business’, even with conflicting surroundings.
I do find the second half of the film a little rushed and therefore less believable. The child, Elizabeth seems to also be ignored by the director from time to time, but this can be explained away with the friendly townsfolk acting child minders for the ambitious J.C. as she creates jobs for the townsfolk in return.
**Cast**
Diane Keaton: J.C. Wiatt Sam Shepard: Dr. Jeff Cooper Harold Ramis: Steven Bochner Kristina Kennedy: Elizabeth Wiatt Michelle Kennedy: Elizabeth Wiatt Sam Wanamaker: Fritz Curtis James Spader: Ken Arrenberg Pat Hingle: Hughes Larabee Britt Leach: Verne Boone Linda Ellerbee: Narrator Kim Sebastian: Robin Mary Gross: Charlotte Patricia Estrin: Secretary Elizabeth Bennett (I): Mrs. Atwood Peter Elbling: Maitre D’
**Issues of a Sociological Nature**
This movie addresses really important social issues, which are as relevant today as they were when ‘Baby Boom’ was first made.
1) Men and women are equal but different in the work place.
E.g. Men can have a family and work. Women cannot.
2) The changing role of women in society. There was time when women had to dress like men just to go to school, for example the film Yentl.
E.g. ‘They decided to become doctors and lawyers themselves instead of just marrying them’. In the last fifty years there have been radical changes in the role of women in our society, women now dress in a masculine manner i.e. suits, to hide their sexuality. In the film J.C. wears lots of brown suits. Brown is often used to denote a conservative and hard working personality.
3) Must have society of the 1980’s. To a fulfilled person, you must always succeed and become rich.
E.g. J.C. succeeding in her new venture with a baby food product.
4) Selfishness A must have society, treading on the weak to succeed. Even in the Vermont town money is important. Outsiders of the town are exploited for monetary gains.
E.g. J.C. and her need for a competent workman/handyman.
Visitors to the store wanted to buy the ‘Gourmet Baby Food’.
As to recounting scenes, well I would rather not spoils the plot any further
The movie ‘Baby Boom’ makes me feel uncomfortable but it is hard to tell where the comedic exaggeration about neurotic working women stops and truly offensive stereotyping begins. For the time it was made, it was challenging the conventions of the work place, now the plot seems a little simple, with stereotypes and shoulder pads. The film works well as a mechanical, echt-80's fantasia where the competent career woman, J.C. Waitt discovers her life is meaningless without a child.
Advantages: Keaton does well, first part of film good... Disadvantages: second part weak, ending not too good
...Club, and who can forget Baby Boom?
Baby Boom was made in the late eighties, and Diane Keaton became even more popular after it. I enjoy the film so much because I feel I’m a bit like the main character, even though she’s female, I can relate to her, and when you can relate to a character in a film, you immediately love it!
Baby Boom is a touching story that’ll have you pitying, hating, laughing at, loving, crying over and most ... ...her will is a three-year-old baby named Elizabeth, and J.C is expected to look after her…
J.C immediately plans to give the baby up for adoption, because her work is suffering, and it is obvious she hasn’t got any maternal instinct at all, and she isn’t a very good Mother to Elizabeth.
After taking Elizabeth to adoption clinic, she pulls out, and can’t do it. But, little did J.C know that a baby could ruin your whole life.
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Mattroberts 18.08.2003
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Advantages: Funny Great Storyline Disadvantages: Not alot
Baby Boom
Late Last night I put on the TV just to watch it for half hour till I fell asleep but when I ended up doing was sitting up have the night watching a film – Baby Boom which as just starting as I turned on the TV.
I recognised Dianne Keaton so I knew it was a film so I started watching it.
The Story
A top business woman JC who is in a happy steady relationship one day receives a phone call to find out her cousin has died – A cousin she ... ...and she did - Homemade Baby Food. She is doing this to earn more money to move back to New York –She hates the country.
As they live in the country with an orchard and more JC makes up her own delicious baby food and starts to sell them to stores and it becomes very popular so she starts promoting her business and she earns a fortune even her old business bosses wants to buy her business off her and she turns them down.
Things are working out as ...
lesleyanne18 13.08.2007
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Advantages: Gentle comedy Disadvantages: Better in this genre
Baby Boom is a nice enough gentle comedy that relies on a cute baby to provide some of the humour.
Based in New York Diane Keaton stars as J.C. Wyatt a successful career woman who has it all, well at least she thinks so, a fabulous apartment which she shares with her boyfriend, the very real prospect of being a partner in her firm and a job that occupies all of her day and most of her free time as well. When she finds out that she is in the will ... ...that actually it is a baby which is handed over to her at the airport. Now I know our social services can be a bit shoddy but even this stretches the reality threshold.
Cast List
Diane Keaton ... J.C. Wiatt Sam Shepard ... Dr. Jeff Cooper Harold Ramis ... Steven Buchner Kristina Kennedy ... Elizabeth Wiatt Michelle Kennedy ... Elizabeth Wiatt Sam Wanamaker ... Fritz Curtis James Spader ... Ken Arrenberg Pat Hingle ... Hughes Larrabee Britt Leach ...
fuzzybear967 16.06.2008
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Advantages: funny, heart warming Disadvantages: bit sentimental
...nappies falling off and the baby throwing food ensue. However, J.C. soon discovers that she can't carry on working the way she has been and give Elizabeth all the love and attention she needs? What will J.C. put first, her career or Elizabeth?
Baby Boom also stars Sam Shepard (Pelican Brief), Harold Ramis (Spengler - Ghostbusters), James Spader (Stargate), Pat Hingle (Commisioner Gordon - Batman) and Sam Wanamaker. This DVD is single disc with a ... ...is worth watching for the scene when J.C. has to take a valium before she can check the baby's temperature and for the final scene [which always makes me cry].
This is a lovely film, a bit heavy with the sentimentality at times and not completely realistic, but if some escapism is that you're after then this is it. However, a word of warning, this is definitely one for the girls!! In my experience boys do not take kindly to being made to sit through ...
princesslaura 29.05.2008
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When workaholic J.C. Wiatt inherits a baby girl she finds that her life is no longer her own. Fleeing the big city to work in the country, she develops, with baby Elizabeth's help, a new brand of baby food, which soon becomes a huge success. Do they return to the rat-race?
Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer, Scene Access
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"...It's funny and it's liable to hit home....[Keaton makes] the performance a delight..." (New York Times, p.C24, 07/10/1987)
DVD Description
When J.C. Wiatt, a total workaholic in charge of her life and career, inherits a 13-month-old baby girl, she finds her life is no longer her own. Fleeing the city and moving to the country, J.C. and Elizabeth market their own applesauce, which becomes a nationwide success. But do they return to the fast track or not
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