I saw this movie years ago and enjoyed it for Diane Keaton's performance. Having revisited it in 2012, I realized that we have changed A LOT. The fast paced "Tiger Lady" that J.C. Wiatt portrays still exist, but imagine what her life would've been like if the internet was still possible. It's really hard not to root for her. J.C. is a windup toy that is wound too tight. A life on a ticking clock. So driven to succeed that she doesn't even realize when she obtains success. The fine line that Keaton skates is dated (unfortunately). A lot of this schtick wouldn't hold to today's audience, but in the context of the era, it's a great reminder of the yuppies that dominated the Reagan era.
Cue in, cute baby. She does what the story needs her to do, which is to slow down Keaton's life. Force her to see what's important. And the message is WAY too predictable but...it's still a nice journey. Again, if you follow Keaton's work, this is a very nice film that allows her to juggle through her neurosis. And it has a LOT of fun moments. It made me miss the 80's.
Baby Boom
1987
Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance
Baby Boom
1987
Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance
Plot summary
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!
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A Sweet Natured Topical Flick From The 80's Screwball vault
Great comedian in hokey comedy
J.C. Wiatt (Diane Keaton) is a driven New York executive. She gets an inheritance from cousin Andy whom she hasn't seen since 1954, but it turns out to be a little baby girl. Her life is turned upside down. Her boyfriend Steven (Harold Ramis) can't take it and leaves. She moves out into the country. There he meets Dr. Jeff Cooper (Sam Shepard).
While it had a few funny moments, this is all very cliché. Diane Keaton acts like an idiot around a kid. The kid playing around with the spaghetti was very cute. And it was scary how Keaton lugged her around like a sack of potatoes. But it also gets very hammy like when Keaton has to use a thermometer on the baby. The jokes go over the line time after time from funny to stupid. She's a grown woman, not an idiot. Just when things start to look silly, they hit you with the adoption melodrama. It's tear jerker at its best, and its most manipulative. And that's how I feel about this movie. It jerks you around from one contrivance after another. Sometimes it works. Sometime it doesn't. It just drove me nuts to see a possibly good movie with a perfectly funny actress fall flat on its face again and again.
The Inheritance
In New York, the executive J.C. Wiatt (Diane Keaton) is a successful business woman that prioritizes her work in a publicity agency over her personal life. Her boss Fritz Curtis (Sam Wanamaker) calls her tiger lady and invites J.C. to be partner of the agency provided she brings the account of the company owned by Hughes Larrabee (Pat Hingle) to the agency. One night, J.C. is sleeping with her boyfriend Steven Buchner (Harold Ramis) and receives a phone call from England telling that she has an inheritance something from her cousin that died in an accident with his wife. J.C. believes it is money but receives their daughter, the baby girl Elizabeth, instead. Soon she feels connected to the baby, turning her life upside-down: Steven breaks with her; her assistant Ken Arrenberg (James Spader) steals Larrabee´s account in the agency; and J.C. loses her job. She decides to buy a huge real estate in Vermont to raise Elizabeth and finds many unexpected problems in the old house. But soon she sees an opportunity to develop new business while she meets the veterinarian Dr. Jeff Cooper (Sam Shepard) giving another sense to her life.
"Baby Boom" is a funny comedy about a tough executive that changes her life after inheriting a baby girl. The plot has silly and exaggerated moments, but is hilarious most of the time. Diane Keaton has good performance and the baby Elizabeth is cute. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil):"Presente de Grego" ("A Curse in Disguise")