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Summary: Diane Keaton as a Working Mom
Review: I was a fan of this movie the first time I saw it on cable. I always thought of it as a classic in my book. This was before I saw Working Girl even or Look Who's Talking. Which in this case is a little of both movies into one.
Diane Keaton plays J.C. Wiatt a hugly successful business woman in the 80's. And works for a huge advertising company. In the process of almost making partner in the company she recieves an inheritence from some cousins she hasn't seen in ages. It turns out it's a baby girl Elizabeth. Now she's conflicted of working but at the same time deciding to give up Elizabeth for being a partner or possibly doing both. She learns that she just can't give up with Elizabeth and she has fallen in love with her. However, she learns it's too hard to work full time in a demanding business and raise a baby girl at the same time.
So they move to a country side where quite a few things go wrong. A city girl in the country trying to make it on her own and raising a baby girl. She then starts a business on her own which can land her back at her old business. It's got a great cast with: Diane Keaton who's really amazing in this role, and other's such as: Harold Ramis (Ghostbusters), Sam Shepard (Black Hawk Down), James Spader, and many more noticable stars. In the start of the movie the narrorator is none other than newswoman Linda Ellerbee. The DVD I was a bit disappointed in it's only got a theatrical trailer and not much else. I was hoping maybe for some interviews and behind the scene's. So if your a fan you can still get the VHS version or if your a DVD collector then this is a good movie to add to your collection. So All in all I would give a review of the movie a B+ and the DVD itself a C.
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Summary: My own favorite Diana Keaton film
Review: I was delighted by this movie about a woman who dosen't think she's cut out for parenthood, (as she tells her roomate/semi- boyfriend at the beggining after he asks her if she'd like to own a dog, "I'm not good with living things." Although, the fact that most of her time is used up with work probably has something to do with it,) who suddenly and with out warning has the role thrown on her when a distant reletive dies, leaving her with a certian inheritence. She dosen't know what it is at first because when someone calls her up to tell her, the phone reception is so bad. She finds out what it is later at the airport, in my own favorite scene in the film, when she asumes that she's going to be inheriting money and that the baby who's with the woman she's meeting is probably the woman's own daughter. (The moral: never sighn an unread contract.) It's only after she's sighned it that she finds out what the real deal is. There is then a bit of argueing between the two women, J.C. (Diana Keaton's charecter) insisting that she's not the right person for the job, and the other woman insisting that she's the only person. The woman then leaves J.C. with baby Elizebeth, saying,"Once you get the hang of it, I'm sure you'll make an excellent mother!" The rest of the film is about J.C. trying to adjust to it all. A wonderful comedy classic.
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Summary: My own favorite Diana Keaton film
Review: I was delighted by this movie about a woman who dosen't think she's cut out for parenthood, (as she tells her roomate/semi- boyfriend at the beggining after he asks her if she'd like to own a dog, "I'm not good with living things." Although, the fact that most of her time is used up with work probably has something to do with it,) who suddenly and with out warning has the role thrown on her when a distant reletive dies, leaving her with a certian inheritence. She dosen't know what it is at first because when someone calls her up to tell her, the phone reception is so bad. She finds out what it is later at the airport, in my own favorite scene in the film, when she asumes that she's going to be inheriting money and that the baby who's with the woman she's meeting is probably the woman's own daughter. (The moral: never sighn an unread contract.) It's only after she's sighned it that she finds out what the real deal is. There is then a bit of argueing between the two women, J.C. (Diana Keaton's charecter) insisting that she's not the right person for the job, and the other woman insisting that she's the only person. The woman then leaves J.C. with baby Elizebeth, saying,"Once you get the hang of it, I'm sure you'll make an excellent mother!" The rest of the film is about J.C. trying to adjust to it all. A wonderful comedy classic.
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Summary: Not a Diane Keaton fan, but this is GREAT!
Review: I'm not much of a Diane Keaton fan. In fact, I have not liked any of her movies, except Baby Boom. This was a miracle movie about a woman who was married to her job, sleeping with a man who was married to his job, and not interested in getting married on paper to each other. Keaton had no parenting skills, had never even held a baby. You could tell that when she carried Baby Elizabeth under her armpit into the restaurant right after receiving her off the airplane. Needless to say, she fell in love with this little girl after she helped nurse her back to health after a cold. She couldn't even give her up at the adoption agency. Therefore, she lost her so-called boyfriend because he didn't like kids. Things got better and worse at the same time. She loved her job, people even called her The Tiger Lady because she worked more hours than she relaxed. But as she was becoming more accustomed to being a mommy, she was slowly phased out of her accounts by corporate rats, mainly played by James Spader, "the little pischer" as J.C. Wyatt called him. He'd still be selling shirts at Barney's if she had not brought him under her wing. Well, the little pischer got her main account, The Food Chain, and because she couldn't think about being known as being down-sized to the dogfood account, she quit. She moves to this really cool country estate in Vermont with 62 acres of land, a pond, cows, and a two story house with an attic that is in need of constant repair. The house looks like a dream on the outside, but on the inside she winds up paying thousands to put on a new roof, get the heating fixed, and she even runs out of well water. The well water part is funny, because being a city girl, she thinks she can just go get the hose around the back of the house and fill up the well. She is totally unaware that she's going to have to spend thousands more to get her house hooked up to the town's water supply. Poor thing! I'm a city girl, too, but not so much of a city girl that if I ran out of well water I'd know I was completely out of water. She meets and falls in love with the little country veterinarian played by Sam Sheppard. I'm not much of a Sam Sheppard fan, either, but this is one of the movies I loved him in. He was so good with Baby Elizabeth, and he practically kissed the frozen toes off Diane Keaton when she had a flat on the way home one night. "Wow!" she whispers, after he leaves. While she spends day after dreary day in her snow-bound Vermont home, she creates a homemade baby food recipe for Elizabeth out of the apple orchard. Homemade baby applesauce. And it becomes such a big seller that now the big city wants to get their clutches into the recipe. So J.C. goes back to the big city to make a deal with them. But even though they offer her 3 million dollars up front, an apartment of her choice, a portion of the profits, and use of the company jet, she turns them down, because she realizes that she loves her country estate, and her baby is so happy there, and she's in love with the town vet. I really like the way this movie ended. I just wish the series with Kate Jackson would have taken up where the movie left off, instead of her being a corporate executive. The series wasn't very good, and I really, really, like Kate Jackson, but Diane Keaton was type-cast in this role, and if she had been in the series, maybe it would have gone over. Ahhh, well, I'm probably past my thousand word limit, so here's sayin', if you have not seen Baby Boom, you need to buy a copy. Take it from me, it will not be a waste of time.
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Summary: Great Comedy
Review: I'm very critical of comedies -- seldom even get a chuckle out of me, but this one had me laughing often! Diane Keaton and Sam Shepard at their best. I think my favorite scene is when she has had it with house repairs (after she moves to the country) and rants and raves herself into a faint. The handy man rushes her to the local doctor and another scene to make you laugh when she tells her doc her troubles. I saw this film only because James Spader was in it. And, though he plays the perfect upscale yuppie executive (I wish there had been MORE scenes between him and Keaton), Keaton and Shepard are at their best. I am usually disappointed with most "comedy movies" -- but not with this one -- it is so funny, that I have viewed it dozens of times!! This one won't disappoint you. It would have been perfect for me, if James Spader had had more screen time.
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Summary: I ADORE this movie!!
Review: If I were to watch this movie 5 times a week it would not be enough! It's a whole variety of city life vs. country living. Diane Keaton looks great in anything she wears city or country! It shows country people soft warm and gentle yet realistically and not as a bunch of hollywood view of yeehaw ignoramic morons! It's almost fall now and it's a great time to BUY this movie and enjoy it with a cup of hot apples and cinnamon tea or coco.
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Summary: I ADORE this movie!!
Review: If I were to watch this movie 5 times a week it would not be enough! It's a whole variety of city life vs. country living. Diane Keaton looks great in anything she wears city or country! It shows country people soft warm and gentle yet realistically and not as a bunch of hollywood view of yeehaw ignoramic morons! It's almost fall now and it's a great time to BUY this movie and enjoy it with a cup of hot apples and cinnamon tea or coco.
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Summary: Been there, done that.
Review: If you've ever moved from New York to Vermont, you will truly enjoy the authentic insight this movie has into living and trying to get work out of the locals!
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Summary: A guilty pleasure..
Review: It's silly, it's sentimental, it's not a "great" film, but it'll charm the pants off you. Ten years after "Annie Hall" Keaton hits her prime playing a force of nature transformed by a three-year-old and Sam Shepard's gentle country vet. This is a spartan DVD with few frills--just the original trailer and the choice of English or French soundtracks and French/Spanish/English subtitles. On my "Rent," "Buy," or "Don't Bother" scale this is a definite "Buy."
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Summary: I can't stop you from watching this, but...
Review: Maybe you'd really like this film if you are nostalgic about the way Hollywood once portrayed rich people. It's amusing to watch Diane Keaton and spouse cooped up in a miniscule, overpriced Manhattan co-op filled with chrome and glass furniture and talk about how much money they make and how many hours per week they work. If you are the sort who likes watching dozens of women in dorky dark skirts and helmet hair trotting to their next power lunch, this movie is for you, Mister (or Sister). The script achieves a few high points in its unintended humor (or irony) when we hear that Diane is paid "zillions" a year to tell investors that a company must trim "operating expenses" in order to "become profitable". Into this odd "business is evil" morality play comes a baby for whom Diane eventually develops maternal feelings, as well as a rugged country dude who can give her what she "really needs". Who knows? Even the bad 80's music groups have nostalgia value. Maybe this movie is next.
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