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- 1987
- PG
- United Artists
- 1 h 50 m
- 1987
- PG
- United Artists
- 1 h 50 m
Summary The life of super-yuppie J.C. Wiatt (Diane Keaton) is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative.
Directed By: Charles Shyer
Written By: Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer
- 1987
- PG
- United Artists
- 1 h 50 m
- 1987
- PG
- United Artists
- 1 h 50 m
Baby Boom
53
6.6
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Summary The life of super-yuppie J.C. Wiatt (Diane Keaton) is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative.
Directed By: Charles Shyer
Written By: Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
53
44% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
22% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
33% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
53
44% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
22% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
33% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
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.
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]
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 User Ratings
6.6
56% Positive
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
25% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
19% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 User Ratings
6.6
56% Positive
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
25% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
19% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
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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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Keaton is funny when she's tough, and funny when she's soft; the Baby Boom combination, for all the film's calculations and shameless cooing (the baby's dubbed, for pity's sake), is quite appealing. [7 Oct 1987, p.D8]
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.
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.
Baby Boom is an '80s fable based on a beer ad philosophy.
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.
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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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 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.
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Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 2 Nominations
Casting Society of America, USA
• 1 Nomination
National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
