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United Artists | Release Date: October 7, 1987 |
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.
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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.
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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]
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.
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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]
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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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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