Baby Boom

Name: Baby Boom
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Released: October 7, 1987
Duration: 110 min
Rating: 53
Cast: Diane Keaton, Sam Shepard

1987

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United Artists | Release Date: October 7, 1987 | PG

Starring: Diane Keaton, Sam Shepard

Summary: The life of super-yuppie J.C. Wiatt (Diane Keaton) is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative.

Director: Charles Shyer

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Romance

Rating: PG

Runtime: 110 min

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Kevin Thomas

Shyer and Meyers... are endlessly inventive. They're not afraid to be sophisticated and screwballish in the best '30s tradition, and they know just how far to exaggerate for laughs without leaving touch with reality entirely or destroying sentiment. The humor in Baby Boom is sharp without being heartless. Read full review

Roger Ebert

Baby Boom makes no effort to show us real life. It is a fantasy about mothers and babies and sweetness and love, with just enough wicked comedy to give it an edge. Read full review

Ted Mahar

One of the most important things about Baby Boom, aside from being amusing all the way through, is that Diane Keaton gets her first chance to carry a comedy all by herself. [28 Oct 1987, p.E06]

Janet Maslin

Baby Boom isn't much more than a glorified sitcom, but it's funny, and it's liable to hit home. The reason: a devilishly good performance by Diane Keaton. Read full review

Dave Kehr

Shyer's direction of actors rises instantly to a level of cartoonish hysteria and descends only for occasional wet bursts of sentimentality. But as an exercise in ideological persuasion it works appallingly well, playing on deep-seated guilts and insecurities with a sureness of touch that may make it a hit with the audience it caricatures. Read full review

Rick Groen

Baby Boom has the fluffy amiability of an innocuous sitcom. In their rightful place on the shrunken sets of the small screen, its teeny characters would seem comfortably at home. But blown up to feature dimensions, they betray their flimsy origins, looking thin and transparent, just a bunch of under-considered ideas decked out in over-sized finery. [10 Oct 1987]

Staff [Not Credited]

Baby Boom tries to be a lot funnier than it actually is, and handsome production design and cinematography do little to compensate for its annoying over-reliance on cornball action montages and a dreadfully saccharine soudtrack score. Read full review

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DawdlingPoet

Nov 26, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This is a typical 80s comedy film about a lady who finds herself juggling her work and being a mother to a distant relatives child she hadn't known about before. Its so 80s it includes jazzy saxophone solo's played in brief scenes between dialogue on screen, so it does appear perhaps a bit dated now but then it is over 30 years old I suppose. It is amusing at times and I found it an easy and entertaining watch.

The subject of mothers being demoted at work is sadly probably still an issue at times, although I like to think that society has moved on a bit in terms of such things in the 30 odd years since this was made, with one or two scenes of locals hitting on her seeming a little cheesy but that aside, I certainly enjoyed watching this film and found it an entertaining and enjoyable watch for the most part. I thought Diane Keaton did well in her role as the new found multi tasking mother, J.C. Wiatt. I would recommend this film. Also the thought that whoever the (or however many of the, I should probably say) baby/babies were in the film won't be much younger than me is a mildly sobering thought, as a young child of the 80s lol. Seriously though, the baby looks cute!.… Expand

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beingryanjude

Aug 28, 2014

Diane Keaton nails another role. I'm not surprised in the least. Unfortunately, Baby Boom falls flat periodically. The potential is there, but this is not a great film.

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BradleyJordan

Aug 12, 2018

Diane Keaton is great in this role, but her life decisions are completely mad, and her self awareness is non-existant. I wouldn’t recommend this movie to anybody. Dated movie with a few funny moments.

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Broyax

Jan 12, 2017

Diane Keaton n'est déjà en soi pas une actrice facile, ce qui signifie qu'elle est souvent difficile à supporter. Aussi, la voir en "super-business-woman" avec un chiard gueulard dans les bras à l'insu de son plein gré nous est particulièrement pénible. Surtout dans une comédie qui tire trèsDiane Keaton n'est déjà en soi pas une actrice facile, ce qui signifie qu'elle est souvent difficile à supporter. Aussi, la voir en "super-business-woman" avec un chiard gueulard dans les bras à l'insu de son plein gré nous est particulièrement pénible. Surtout dans une comédie qui tire très fort sur la corde sensible de la niaiserie mais également sur celle de "vidéogag" en folie... et last but not least cette pitoyable connerie dure pas loin de deux heures ! putain, sans déconner, deux heures ! bon ok 1h50 soit deux moins dix minutes. Putain de meeeerde.… Expand

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