Baby Boom
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Movie Review: Baby Boom
Summary: 5 Stars
J.C. Wiatt is a successful New York business woman known around town as the "tiger lady." She gets news of an inheritance from a relative from another country and off the bat she suspects it's money. Well it's not money, it's a baby girl. At first she doesn't accept until the lady that gives the baby to her has to catch her flight. J.C. is now stuck with an annoying baby girl. Her boyfriend doesn't like the idea of a baby living with them and he leaves her. J.C. has enough of it and takes her to meet a family ready to adopt her. She leaves but hears the baby cry while walking away and has to go back. The baby is too attached to her now and won't let her go. Later, her baby gets into mischief which causes her to get fired. Now, she sets her eyes on an old two story cottage in Vermont to get out of the New York life. When she arrives, the house needs more help than originally thought. She gets bored one snowy day and decides to make apple sauce. Her baby loves it and she decides to sell it. Pretty soon everyone wants some of the baby apple sauce. J.C. hits it big and falls in love with a local veterinarian. Keaton is delightfully charming in this pleasant comedy. Simply a thoroughly enjoyable, funny, pleasant and uplifting movie.Movie Review: Great Film
Summary: 5 Stars
Besides the fact that Diane Keaten is probably one of my five top favorite actresses, and I've loved most all of her films, from Woody Alan to REDS. , I'm convinced she can play any kind of part in any kind of film.
This is an interesting film in that she has to change characters so many times. At first a hard working first class wealthy business woman, then a mom who hasn't the slightest idea of how to take of a baby she inherits and finally a gal whose moved to the NE in a house she saw in the newspaper, and where her roof caves in in the middle of winter, her well runs dry and just about everything that could go wrong with this house she's bought in Vermont brings her to the point of poverty. Close to a nervous break down, she changes course again.
She makes a come back, and with her orchard begins to make baby apple sauce. Tons of it, and it sells, and sells and sells, and next thing we know, she's been called back to her old job in NY where she's presented with her great come back. But she turns it down. If they can do it, so can she. Diane Keaten plays all of her different parts great, and I love this film. Of course, it's not REDS, and it's not Woody but I like it just the same.
Movie Review: A Diane Keaton classic
Summary: 5 Stars
I don't like a lot of Diane Keaton movies as she is often too hyper for me but this one is excellent. She plays the role of the hyperactive businesswoman who suddenly is confronted with the responsibility for a child. I have always wondered a bit at the somewhat contrived adoption story but I assume that having her own child would have drawn the tale out too much. Anyway, it's comedy and comedy allows contrived plot devices. She eventually is faced with the collapse of her career and the loss of her boyfriend (no great loss as Harold Ramis plays him). She decides to move to Vermont. I have lived in New Hampshire and got a kick from her troubles coping with country life. The best part was when her well ran dry and the plumber tells her she's out of water. She tells him there is a hose right over there and they should fill the well up with it. Hilarious. Eventually, she meets Sam Shepard and, after the usual misunderstandings, they get together. The story of her baby food empire is apparently based on a true story and brings her back to business success without compromising her mothering. It is an enjoyable movie and I have watched it many times. The scenery in Vermont is worth the price of the DVD.Movie Review: Keaton's Best
Summary: 5 Stars
This classic is great on so many levels: The corporate world versus the bucolic life, the stressful anxiety to achieve versus the laid-back,reflective confidence geared to serving others, the drive that too much is not enough versus the satisfaction that the little things, both animate and inanimate, are the real stuff of life. Keaton is all over this film; she is funny, she is maddingly aggressive, she is tender, she is caustic, she is passionate, she is aloof, she is approachable, she makes you smile, she makes you cry. She runs the full range of emotions, but they are never forced and quite believable. If you think from this description that I'm a true fan of this movie, then you have hit the lottery. Writer/director Nancy Meyers hits on all cylinders as she has on almost every film with which she has been associated.She writes plots and characters that are so real that one has the feeling that he or she is listening and observing words and situations as they are actually occurring. The team of Keaton and Meyers make up the best team of female actor and director in Hollywood today. This film can never be overrated or can be only matched for its cleverness, comedy and poignancy.Movie Review: A great 1980's movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is about a woman named JC who lives in New York, and who's got it all portrayed by Diane Keaton. A great job, a boyfriend a swell New York Apartment. She is headed up the coporate ladder when unexpectedly her cousin in England dies and she is left with her daughter. JC has absolutely no idea what she is going to do and struggles to be both a mom an in the workplace. At work, her collegues and her both begin to treat her like she has gone soft now that she has a child and now treat her like less then she is just because she is a mother.She gets fed up with themdecides to leave New York City and her copoate job to buy a historic housein a small town in Vermont. This house ends up giving her many problems and headaches, it is also hard for her to adjust to the country life style. With help from a Vet, played by Sam Shepard, she makes it in the country, falls in love and gets used to being a mom.
This movie is great, I first saw it when it came out in 1987.This movie is very evocative of the modern woman who struggles to have it all. It is both humerous and heart warming, and Diane Keaton really shines in the main role.A very worthwile movie!