Synopsis
The life of super-yuppie J.C. is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative.
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Cast
- Diane KeatonJ.C. Wiatt
- Sam ShepardDr. Jeff Cooper
- Harold RamisSteven Buchner
- Kristina KennedyElizabeth Wiatt
- Sam WanamakerFritz Curtis
- James SpaderKen Arrenberg
- Pat HingleHughes Larrabee
- Linda EllerbeeNarrator (voice)
- Mary GrossCharlotte Elkman
- Shera DaneseCloak Room Attendant
Recommendations
- 80
Los Angeles Times
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. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
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. - 75
Portland Oregonian
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] - 63
Miami Herald
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] - 60
The New York Times
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. - 50
Chicago Tribune
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. - 38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
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] - 37
Washington Post
Baby Boom is an '80s fable based on a beer ad philosophy.
