"Baby Boom" tells the story of a yuppie who receives the ultimate toy, a cute little baby daughter. At first she doesn't want to play with it, but Right then, the movie changes tone. Up until Keaton's decision to keep the child, "Baby Boom" has been a hard-edged satire (the dialogue between Keaton.
Baby Boom struggles to impart its feminist ideals, but Diane Keaton's winsome leading work helps keep things breezily entertaining. Yes, that's right, more movies from Pigeon Verite's childhood! It stars Diane Keaton as a yuppie who discovers that a long-lost cousin has died.
Wiatt (Diane Keaton) is a high-powered business executive in Manhattan who lives for her job. Her life is turned upside down, however, when she inherits a baby girl from distant relatives who have been killed. Saying good-bye to the New York rat race, she moves. Baby Boom is like two separate movies that were grafted together to become one mediocre, feature-length sitcom. It's hard not to like Diane Keaton, but everything else here is either cliched, outlandish, or a bit empty. The first half of the movie features Diane Keaton as CJ Wiatt, a businesswoman (though. ''BABY BOOM'' isn't much more than a glorified sitcom, but it's funny, and it's liable to hit home.
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A successful New York consultant is made the guardian of her dead cousin's baby daughter. At first she plans to put the child up for adoption, but finds herself unable to go through with it and reluctantly takes on the role of mother - a decision that throws her personal. Read Common Sense Media's Babies review, age rating, and parents guide.
The four babies featured in this documentary are the stars, and in many ways, they remind us of how determined, persistant, curious, interested, and willful we once were. Baby Boom is one of those films, and really does a good job. I still enjoy both the film and Keaton. And the stream from Amazon is pretty decent.