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Rating: 2.5 stars

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Baby Boom (1987)

Directed by Charles Shyer

Comedy

Overview

J.C. Wiatt is a talented and ambitious New York City career woman who is married to her job and working towards partner at her firm. She has a live-in relationship with Steven, a successful investment broker who, along with J.C., agreed children aren’t part of the plan. J.C.‘s life takes an unexpected turn when a distant relative dies and the will appoints her the caretaker of their baby girl, Elizabeth. The baby’s sudden arrival causes Steven to leave, breaking off their relationship. Juggling power lunches and powdered formula, she is soon forced off the fast track by a conniving colleague and a bigoted boss. But she won’t stay down for long. She’ll prove to the world that a woman can have it all and on her own terms too!

Rated PG | Length 110 minutes

Actors

Diane Keaton | Sam Shepard | Harold Ramis | Kristina Kennedy | Michelle Kennedy | Sam Wanamaker | James Spader | Pat Hingle | Britt Leach | Mary Gross | Kim Sebastian | Elizabeth Bennett | Beverly Todd | William Frankfather | Annie O'Donnell | George Petrie | Victoria Jackson | John C. Cooke | Carol Gillies | Hansford Rowe | Mary O'Sullivan | Linda Ellerbee | Patricia Estrin | Peter Elbling | Shera Danese | Angel David | Nicholas Cascone | Patti Johns | Annie Golden | Jennifer Balgobin | Marianne Doherty | Eugenie Ross-Leming | Dori Brenner | Jane Elliott | Ben Diskin | Paxton Whitehead | Constance Forslund | John J. Philbin | Richard Humphreys | Billy Beck | Margaret Hussey | Katherine Borowitz | Robin Bartlett | Chris Noth | Barry Heins | Lisa Fuller | Kate O'Connell | Mary Peters | Elizabeth Philbin | Annie Meyers-Shyer | Margaret Whitton

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

Another possibly-overrated exalted movie from my vaunted childish past rears its head in BABY BOOM; not having seen it since probably when it first hit HBO, I didn’t remember much except baby food and that scene where she buys $1700 of baby toys.

It’s certainly not as funny as I remembered as a tween and I spy with my critical eye a movie that really falls apart and starts to bore once the plot leaves New York City. The overall message of womanly independence is great, but it would have been better if JC had stayed in The City, because once she hits Vermont, the prescence of Dr. Cooper really drags the story down.

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