Baby Boom (1987)

Kate Jackson starred in the sitcom.

Good Keaton performance in so-so movie.

Didn't think much of it back in 1987 and have no desire to revisit it.

It’s fantastic. And the song Ever Changing Times by Siedah Garrett epitomizes 80’s single lady ennui.

It was really offensive at 5e time and now just seems out dated. The whole point of the movie is that Keaton just needs a good fucking to get her priorities back in order.

Pretty women for careers gals.

“I can’t have a baby. I have a lunch meeting!”

James Spader did a good job. Handsome and a bit evil.

Harmless little film. Light and easy to watch.

I thought it was stupid. People don't "inherit" babies in a distant relative's will. But even if they did, no child welfare agency would give the baby away to some obviously abusive, stereotypical ignorant country bumpkin couple instead. When a movie gets off to such a contrived start I know it will be stuffed with lazy plot devices.

I did inherit Bably from a distant relative's will: he was a pig!

I'm watching it now, it was a cute film. Don't get all these stupid complaints.

It was so trashy and lightweight.

When Diane lost ALL her cred.

[quote]It’s fantastic. And the song Ever Changing Times by Siedah Garrett epitomizes 80’s single lady ennui.

Dear GOD!

I'm sure Diane Keaton is wishing she was promoting Baby Boom instead of Poms.

^ You know who ^

My mom was obsessed with this movie because she saw herself in it, although my arrival was hardly a surprise.

I think it's a cute enough movie, but the real treat is young-ish Sam Shepherd.

How is he a treat, R16?

I wasn’t asked, but had I been, I never would have taken that role.

It's cute. That's the best and worst I can say about it.

I loved that movie - went to see it with my mom when I was a freshman in high school!

Didn't see it. The so-called comedies of that era were thin gruel compared to the great 30s and 40s classics.

What do I think of Baby Boom? I think lots of things. The first time I stepped foot in New York I made my pilgrimage to the Seagrams Building. This movie heavily influenced my taste in classic Jeeps, yellow houses, expansive acreage, picking apples every fall.

When I get a boat it's going to be called the "Tiger Lady".

All I wanted growing up was to be in business like J.C.

J.C.'s goal at the beginning of the movie was to steal an account from McKenzie, Mayor Pete's old company.

And the nuttiest thing about Baby Boom, is that I love to watch the first few minutes of Martha Stewart: The Apprentice on mute with Baby Boom music playing instead.

Martha Stewart is J.C. Wyatt.

"A lot of working women have babies. Eleanor Roosevelt, Jane Pauley, Ethel Kennedy. Okay, so she doesn't work, but a lot of women do."

The Ruth Madoff troll is tiresome

I never noticed it until I saw the making of Kate Winslet's "Mildred Pierce" but they mentioned that she was in every scene, for a six hour miniseries. I've not confirmed this but after seeing Baby Boom about 500 times, I'm pretty certain that Diane Keaton is in every scene. There's no scene that she's not in.

Love it. Harmless entertainment. A feel good movie with a great soundtrack. Granted that isn't the best review but I always watch it when it come on.

"I'm moving back to civilization, gonna find myself a nice little apartment where I can watch HBO and have a real life again! Now may I please have my coat before your next patient eats it?"

OP’s a little pisher.

[quote]What do you think of Baby Boom?

I don’t.

And to think not long before Baby Boom, James Spader was living at 1040 Fifth with Jackie, smoking a lot of weed in the library with Jr.

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"Could I interest anybody in anything to drink? 7 UP, Perrier... formula?"

The method she used to ‘can’ her baby food was a certain recipe for food poisoning.

"I just want to turn on the faucet and have water come out! I don't wanna know where it's coming from!"

I say this line to myself sometimes when I use a faucet and realize it's kind of true.

And mark me down for someone who LOVES the song "Everchanging Times".

"President Kennedy", "BMW", "Whoopi Goldberg". Very important life lessons.

"Shrimp sushi... Great grey owl..."

Le Corbusier LC2 sofa.

Even in her art deco apartment, she already has an old quilt on the wall and the massive wooden blue cabinet that she later fills with applesauce.

In the past few years there have been some great penthouses sold in J.C.'s building 19 East 88th Street. It's next to the Guggenheim and most of the penthouses overlook the park.

This movie immediately makes me think of applesauce.

This movie is much better than the dreck that Diane Keaton makes today.

Bearable, but vastly overrated in my opinion. Reminds me in that sense of Working Girl.

Nancy Meyers and the costume designer selected several Chanel suits for Diane to wear. She refused because of the gold buttons and ended up wearing her favorite, Armani in the film.

Working Girl was awful as well.

Crappy 80s schloch, both of them.

It's a better movie than the very similar Funny Farm with Chevy Chase and Madeline Kahn.

not only it's an atrociously frauish movie (the worst kind, the 80s kind), it's also the movie when you can literally see Diane Keaton's legendary 70s run go down the shitter, never to be seen again. Baby Boom lives in infamy.

Diane Keaton's sitting pretty these days, in large part due to her collaborations with Nancy Meyers, which began with Baby Boom.

[quote]Bearable, but vastly overrated in my opinion. Reminds me in that sense of Working Girl.

[quote]Working Girl was awful as well. Crappy 80s schloch, both of them.

How dare you.

"This is Wayne, uh Dwayne, and we met in the park today, and he was just leaving."

J.C.: So tell me a little bit about yourself. What brought you to New York?

Interviewee: The Lord

J.C.: Well, thank you very much for coming by.

Bette Midler comedies were much better at that time.

Keaton is great, her acting makes this film.

The nanny interview bit was funny.

The line @R51 and the Indian woman:

"I will teach your daughter to properly RE-spect a man and speak only when spoken to."

Sam Shepard was at the peak of his hotness in this film (says I.)

The film itself is OK, but it's no classic. It has some decent laughs, but I've always had a major problem with it. Let's assume Keaton (JC Wyatt) inherits the baby (Elizabeth) in the summer, giving her three months to fail at her job, quit and still be in time to pick apples in New England. She spends the winter in her money pit making her special recipe apple sauce. Come spring, she begins selling it and within a few months, she's a national success with a catalogue full of all kinds of baby food and an offer from a major supermarket chain to buy her business. No one could do that within the span of a year.

But that's not what bothers me. Elizabeth looks to be roughly one year old when JC Wyatt "inherits" her. Even if JC could pull off creating a nationally successful company in a year, by the end of that year, Elizabeth would be walking and talking. But she's barely aged. I know it's just a movie, but that always bugged me.

The actress who played the baby was actually a midget wrestler who performed under the name Succotash Susie on the old county fair circuit.

She tried in a tragic turkey frying accident when her husband tried to deep fry a frozen turkey. At least, that's what he told the police when they found her frozen deep-fried corpse in the backyard fryer.

Another tragic end to a child star's career.

I always wondered if J.C. came from money or if she clawed her way to the top. When she gets the call about the death of her cousin, Steven asks if he was rich. She says "of course he was rich, my family?" I've never been able to tell if she was being sarcastic or not.

I'm not really a crier, but every time I see Diane walk down the hallway of the adoption office I get a little verklempt.

"She has a corner office, at the corner of 58th and Park" No she doesn't. Her office clearly has a single exposure and she's at 52nd and Park.

She works at Sloane Curtis and Co., which Nancy Meyers recycled as the name of Mel Gibson's company in What Women Want.

I'm like the poster who thinks immediately of applesauce, then sexy era Sam Shepherd , lumbetjackin' red plaid and Vermont romanticised to the hilt in that order.

Wait... this was a movie? I'm only aware of the hit TV Show!

It was a very average romcom with a fairly basic script. Total fantasy. Some good lines though. And they threw a decent budget at it - nice sets and locations - and Keaton had a great wardrobe! - it looked slick enough - and she was warm and very appealing - so it was a bit of harmless fun...

Well - mostly harmless. I really love several romcoms - but part of me feels they're all pretty insidious. They all have that basic heteronormative message - and all end up implying that there's only one true love - and most women don't really wanna chose a career over love - or what they really want is a baby - or whatever. No matter how slick and contemporary the package - scratch the surface and the message underneath is the usual, deeply conservative one.

Are there any that manage to be charming and funny - but really buck the trend?

"...within a few months, she's a national success with a catalogue full of all kinds of baby food and an offer from a major supermarket chain to buy her business. No one could do that within the span of a year."

Perhaps.

But, assuming the movie was written with ideas conceived in the early 1980s, you have to consider that "gourmet baby food" was (possibly) an untapped market. Most especially in the NE portion of the US.

It seems contrived, but, in a way, it works. She thoroughly researched the market prior to entering it and perhaps discovered this.

all these quotes from the movie just prove how awful and mediocre it was. We used to have standards.

It was cute, and Diane Keaton gives a good performance. I was a kids in '87 but caught this movie on TV a few months ago.

I agree with the people who said Sam Sheppard was at the PEAK of his sexual attractiveness!

Considering the forgettable nonsense produced today, the writing is okay.

I really loved it

Diane Keaton probably didn't have to act very much to show her dislike of children.

It was silly fun, and Keaton acted and looked terrific. I liked it more than Working Girl.

Woof!

I don't get the Sam Shepard thing at all. I do own a director's chair emblazoned with "Dr. Cooper". It was $20 at a campground charity auction and I had to have it because of Dr. Cooper in Baby Boom and Dr. Sheldon Cooper.

I used the word "peak" because Sam Shepard really hit a peak. It's not his fault he didn't age well, but he didn't. I don't know anything about him, so maybe it was genes or maybe hard living. I've never seen one of his plays, but he worked hard and was talented and he fucked Jessica Lange, so good for him. God rest his soul.

If you want to kill many people by "accident," slopping home-cooked applesauce into plastic containers with plastic lids then parking them onto shelves for a few days or weeks is a great way to do it.

R72 - and isn't applesauce like really easy to just make at home? Hard to believe that her Country Baby empire grew from just the one, humble, easy to make product...and in such a short time! But hey - it's all part of the fantasy - very little connection to reality - just a big ole Mary Sue story really

Well, she had a great packaging concept. That means the way its designed.

I thought they were glass containers for the applesauce, not plastic.

Sam Shepard had some of the worst teeth in the business.

It’s a guilty pleasure movie for me, as is It’s Complicated. I love Diane Keaton’s freak out on the lawn when she screams at the plumber and then flips backward. It’s not even that funny but it makes my laugh my head off every time I see it.

Shepard got his teeth fixed later. He was an alcoholic; after he died, it was revealed that he had suffered from ALS for many years.

This movie wouldn't resonate today since most girls want their own baby before they graduate high school.

Besides the packaging, I think the applesauce was supposed to be organic.

This movie could get a modern remake.

Word on the street is that Cheryl feverishly fingers herself to this film repeatedly!!!

I love it it. It's the only thing Keaton has done that I like. Everything else she does she's the same. It's the only time I didn't feel her trying so hard. Other than this I hate Keaton.

LOL R1 and R59 watching Kate be utterly defeated as she tries to shoehorn her earnest acting style and heavy touch into something resembling sitcom mode.

Had this clicked it would have been her 4th hit series! (Rookies, Angels, Scarecrow--Dark Shadows wasn't built around her)

R84-Fuck off and die, cunt!

There's room for only ONE Cheryl in this thread, and it's ME, baby!

[quote] [R72] - and isn't applesauce like really easy to just make at home? Hard to believe that her Country Baby empire grew from just the one, humble, easy to make product...and in such a short time! But hey - it's all part of the fantasy - very little connection to reality - just a big ole Mary Sue story really

People definitely don't buy things that are easy to make at home.

I so wanted Kate to have another hit.

[quote] This movie wouldn't resonate today since most girls want their own baby before they graduate high school.

The teen birthrate was actually much higher in the 1980's than it is now.

[quote] frozen deep-fried corpse

Um...what?

Wait, Sam Shepard died?

I always liked it, was a very cute movie at the time. It had all that over-the-top-ness in acting, gesturing, fashion and hair, action, music, everything, that was so 1980s Film. The '80s really did idolize and reflect the 1950s and '60s of its artists' Baby Boomer parents, and during that Reagan Era everything seemed and was played larger than life and very vanilla. Really mirrored the whole yuppie-thing attitude of the time, plus I am a fan of Diane.

My favorite movie

as usual, DLers show an abysmal taste in cinema

I've never seen this film. I like Diane Keaton, obvs more in the 1970s. I love Working Girl and Married to the Mob.

[quote]I used the word "peak" because Sam Shepard really hit a peak. It's not his fault he didn't age well, but he didn't. I don't know anything about him, so maybe it was genes or maybe hard living.

He smoked and drank like a motherfucker.

R93 culture us with your ten favorite curated films in cinema.

no, r96. let's just say my list would not have any Diane Keaton 80s vehicle

How the fuck the Martha Stewart cast "The Apprentice" and not have even ONE black cast member?

We say coloreds.

R97 yet here you are on datalounge with such refined taste. Too bad you're too cowardly to list the vehicles to your liking.

It's one of those "SO 80s!" movies that I love. Another one is Secret Of My Success, from the same year.

Applesauce needs no added sugar.

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