baby boom ( film )
the baby — actually, babies — of baby boom are all grown up .
clearly, one reason was that baby boom on tv didn’t have diane keaton .
michelle and kristina kennedy, all grown up from their
baby boom
days .
baby boom is available from twilight time now, in a limited release of 3, 000 units .
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this cast list of who was in baby boom includes both lead and minor roles. (19 items )
also visited with identical twins michelle and kristina kennedy, who played baby elizabeth in the' 80s movie classic ,
baby boom ,
alongside diane keaton .
baby boom cast list, listed alphabetically with photos when available. this list of baby boom actors includes any baby boom actresses and all other actors from the film. you can view additional information about each baby boom actor on this list, such as when and where they were born. to find out more about a particular actor or actress, click on their name and you' ll be taken to page with even more details about their acting career. the cast members of baby boom have been in many other movies, so use this list as a starting point to find actors or actresses that you may not be familiar with .
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the movie in question was baby boom, a film about a successful, career woman named j. c. , charmingly played by diane keaton. j. c. turned her life upside down after she inherited a baby from a distant relative and moved to vermont. baby boom came out in 1987 and earned favorable reviews from critics and audiences everywhere. mine included .
'' baby boom'' is rated pg ('' parental guidance suggested''). it includes occasional strong language. a derailed yuppie
twenty - seven years after the film hit theaters, the identical twin actresses who took turns playing baby mary are all grown up .
the flaw in
baby boom
is that the keaton character ends up not having sacrificed a single thing by leaving the business world to become a mom. in fact, she becomes a millionaire as a direct result of keeping the baby. it doesn' t often happen that way, but of course it should. like a frank capra film ,
baby boom
shows us a little of the darkness and a lot of the dawn .
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 eventually the baby grows on her, and even provides the inspiration for her to acquire other toys, such as a farmhouse in vermont, a baby - food company and a handsome veterinarian .
clint eastwood accepts the directing award for
million dollar baby ,
which was also named best picture. the film won four major awards .
bridget jones’s baby has made working title the first british film company to make $ 1 billion (£770 million) at the uk box office .
the intern has been panned by film critics. why am i not surprised ?
the post - second world war baby boom had serious implications for the development of public services and infrastructure. the 1957 national film unit production plan for progress highlighted the need for new schools, improved electricity supply and transport infrastructure to cater for the rapidly growing population .
speaking with gq, boom addressed the baby boy director' s remarks, revisiting the old adage that if you have nothing positive to say, don' t say anything at all .
ireland’s baby boom saw 63, 900 live births recorded during 2016, a rate of 13. 5 births for every 1, 000 of the population. photograph: getty images / istockphoto
amber tamblyn and david cross announced the arrival of baby girl marlow in february .
the film was filmed with two possible endings to keep the true one a secret .
jessi cruickshank, former host of “the hills: the aftershow”, tells matte babel about
the hills
' baby boom and if she keeps in touch with any of the former reality stars .
'' baby boom,'' ms. maslin said,'' is as funny as it is contrived.'' for example, shortly after little elizabeth (played by the twin baby girls kristina and michelle kennedy) arrives on her doorstep, busy j. c. tries to check the baby in a restaurant coatroom while she attends a business lunch .
diane has been in demand ever since, netting further oscar nominations for reds, marvin’s room and something’s gotta give and landing big hits with baby boom, two father of the bride movies and the first wives club .
baby boom remains at times smart, at others nostalgic, but overall is a very sweet film, given a solid release by twilight time. many of its themes still resonate, even if the way they’re framed is somewhat unrelatable. mostly, it serves as a great reminder of the talents of diane keaton .
natalie portman and husband benjamin millepied' s baby daughter amalia arrived on feb. 22 .
baby boom portrays the glorious 80s: a synth - pop opening theme song—complete with keyboards and wailing saxophone, women clad in sneakers and power suits (with requisite shoulder pads), and depictions of the uptight yuppie couple .
baby driver rated r for gun and vehicular violence. running time: 1 hour 53 minutes .
. however, at the end of this film, the credits list
for hallie
instead .
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thanks to my friend’s sleuthing talent, we managed to find the addresses of two of the locations in vermont where baby boom was filmed: grange hall in manchester, and the hapgood general store in peru (not the country) .
think of it this way: every 30 seconds, two non - hispanics reach retirement age and one latino turns 18. like the baby boomers before us, the latino baby boom will affect every aspect of american life over the next 50 years. do you want to be the one missing out on this opportunity? i think not .
that’s right, i liked it. a film whose name is somehow more gimmicky than “the young pope .
bridget jones’s baby is the third film in the series and sees renee zellweger as a 43 - year - old singleton, with colin firth’s mark darcy and patrick dempsey’s jack qwant to come into her life .
chad michael murray and sarah roemer became parents of two when they welcomed a baby girl in march .
title baby boom year 1988 distributor (s) u. i. p. (uk) classified date (s) 08 / 02 / 1988 main language english submitted run time 2m 32s approved footage 227 + 8 bbfc reference btaff061146 registration number ctb00885
an interview with writer / director boots riley about his incendiary new film ,
sorry to bother you .
archives new zealand - te rua mahara o te kāwanatanga reference: plan for progress. national film unit, 1957
veteran character actors sam wanamaker and pat hingle played featured roles in the film. hingle, who had appeared in
with the adorable girls cast for the five - month film shoot, the next step was apparently giving the crew a lesson in baby 101 .
in the beginning, (the film crew) thought that they could just have a baby happy on demand, and they found out really quickly that they had to work around (the babies') schedule and they were very, very good about that ,
said mom diane .
but kamasa, who is chairing a bfi commission looking at the health of the film sector, says that brexit is the latest issue to weigh on the increasingly pressured independent film business. “ [ hollywood ] is driving so much of the production boom, ” he says. “but that doesn’t paint a true picture when looking at the british film industry in its entirety. true british independent film, responsible for films like the king’s speech, is struggling and could continue to struggle. those films are eligible for tax credits but the financing, distribution and marketing of those films is getting harder and harder. ”
indeed, when there’s a new meyers film on the slate, you can just about hear the critics sharpening their knives. it’s a fate that befalls the work of many female film - makers, especially if they dare to make films that are nominally “for women”. (woe betide the film - maker who makes movies for older women. )
after famed director john singleton backed out of the project in 2015, giving the reasoning that
the people involved aren' t really respectful of the legacy ,
the film moved forward with the genius of benny boom, who ultimately brought the story to life. now, for the first time, boom is speaking out about singleton' s words and he' s revealing what bothered him most about what was said .
the ‘80s were replete with comedies, the sort of fuzzy fare that blended big names and laughs with a moral or social message. twilight time, one of the top purveyors of classic cinematic fare, has delved back into this era to bring to blu - ray one such example, the diane keaton vehicle baby boom. this 1987 film looked at the conflict between the personal and professional life of a woman who suddenly finds her life changed by having a baby thrust into her care .
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 .
bridget jones’s baby was released on september 16 and made the figure after an incredible three weeks at no 1 .
maybe samantha and jasmine can’t have it all — or, maybe they can’t right then — but they want to, and swanberg’s treatment of the material both harkens back to the path laid out by films like “baby boom” while keenly balancing its own ideals along the way .
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now, call me old fashioned, but i don’t believe that undergrad neologisms such as “mansplaining” have any place in film criticism. apparently that’s the age we live in, though, and mansplaining is what meyers (by virtue of writing and directing this film) is guilty of. to borrow from poet john betjeman, come friendly bombs and fall on “feminist” film commentary .
hollywood, feb. 27 - -
million dollar baby ,
clint eastwood' s taut, small film about the determination of a woman boxer and her gruff trainer, won best picture at the 77th annual academy awards. eastwood also won best director, while hilary swank took best actress and morgan freeman took best supporting actor for their roles in the film .
some production veterans give this old teapot of a comedy a certain elegant polish. meticulous cinematographer william fraker had been oscar - nominated for looking for mr. goodbar and heaven can wait (1978) and also—not to be forgotten—he photographed such diverse films as bullitt and rosemary’s baby. he gives baby boom a stylish look, with vivid contrasts between the skyscrapers of new york and the autumn leaves of vermont .
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continuing to speak on singleton' s remarks, boom specified that his problem lay in how they were delivered as tupac was not on good terms with everyone he encountered .
unfortunately, the film presents us with both this imagination lens and a boss baby, never combining the two in the most functional, or rational, way. instead of illustrating the boss baby through timothy’s imagination, dreamworks muddles up the stylistic changes. still, that any of this works at all is a testament to the fact that something here is actually working .
produced by black box production, baby boom is a 2009 cyberpunk short film written and directed by thierry lorenzi. official selection: - pifan 2010 - south korea - spam 2010 - canada - doomsday film fest - united - states - les utopiales 2009 - france - mauvais genres 2009 - france - l' etrange festival lyon - france - fancine 2009 - spain - etc. in a bunker located in the middle of a battlefield, three men: a priest, a sheriff and a mercenery question a android female able to reproduce human existence .
poignant, delightful film, beautiful acting, as always by diane keaton. made me cry at times, but delicious ending .
in the end, “the boss baby” has a genuine conceit, visual style, and strangeness. that’s a formula for a good film, or at least an interesting one. i’m still not sure whether “the boss baby” is the former, but i’m definitely sure it is the latter. i’m not here to tell you that it is a masterpiece, but somehow, against all odds, it is something worth seeing. for better or for worse, “the boss baby” has stayed with me .
basically, the alec baldwin baby in “boss baby” wears a suit and quotes mamet because in life, when a second child comes into a family (as tobey maguire narrates in the film), they become, well, the boss. they get everyone’s attention, everyone works for them, and they “hold meetings” (“sometimes in the middle of the night”). “the boss baby” is the first dreamworks film i’ve ever seen that starts with a legitimate premise, and builds up from there. it isn’t artful or elegant about it, but the idea still feels grounded in something real. it’s a good place to start .
the reading of the intern as somehow “unfeminist” is especially baffling, given it’s essentially a critique of the “having it all” lie, first explored by meyers’ 1987 film baby boom. typically, this criticism centres on the moment de niro’s eponymous intern says, before offering jules some advice, “i hate to be the feminist here …”; the line is clearly played for laughs, but has been decried as an egregious example of mansplaining .
arrived promptly and well packaged nice family film with a real feel good factor. bought it for my wife and she loved it .
diane keaton' s 1987 film depicted both the dilemmas and triumphs of the working mother, and it remains relevant 30 years later .
keaton, then, is clearly herself in baby boom, contemporary and practical and larger - than - life. she owns the property, so to speak. and this screen adventure is worthy of her style and persona only because she makes the most of—even surmounts—the somewhat limited range of the material. the movie is an advanced take on the doris day films of the ’60s in which, most of the time, that actress is quite content to be a housewife. sans the virginal schoolgirl grin and the antiseptic touches upon sexuality, day’s that touch of mink comes the closest to baby boom in its imperfect sophistication .
the life of super - yuppie j. c. is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative .
“i can’t have a baby because i have a twelve - thirty lunch meeting. ”—— diane keaton as j. c. wiatt
a film whose first trailer might be the dumbest, least appealing ad campaign for a mainstream animated film since “sing! ” a film in which alec baldwin, voicing a baby who is also a boss, quotes “glengarry glen ross” in a line that contributes nothing, and is barely a joke. all of this is there, and despite this, i liked it. it is legitimately strange, occasionally inspired, and somehow, though all signs pointed to the contrary, people put effort, a great deal of effort, into this .
bevan told deadline: “when we started, a british film doing a couple of million at the box office outside of bond was amazing .
this film bears a resemblance to baby boom, a 1987 film co - written by meyers and her former partner, charles shyer. in that picture, diane keaton was a high - flying executive who' s forced to re - examine her priorities when she inherits a baby. but the movie was a lot funnier and sharper. one of its strengths was that keaton played a more flawed character than the talented and vibrant jules. in addition, keaton’s character had antagonists in a suspicious boss (sam wanamaker) and a sneaky co - worker (james spader — who else ?). in the intern, hathaway’s jules doesn’t really have anyone trying to challenge or undermine her, and that means drama often is shortchanged .
the makers of baby driver received part of the £600m the uk government offered in tax relief to productions last year. photograph: alamy
sources say the government – which paid out almost £600m in tax relief last year to the makers of blockbusters including baby driver, star wars and the trainspotting sequel, as well as tv dramas including the crown – has “no appetite” to make any move against the tax credit system that has fuelled britain’s movie - making boom .
boom went on to explain that though his words are critical, his respect for singleton knows no bounds, and while black directors are being celebrated, they still have some ways to go .
the film is careful never to confront the keaton character with any of the real messiness of the world, such as poverty, illness and catastrophe. after she quits her job, she has enough money in the bank to buy a country spread in vermont for herself and baby elizabeth. and when the money runs low, she starts a gourmet baby - good company that is worth millions within a few months .
the state’s baby boom saw 63, 900 live births recorded during 2016, a rate of 13. 5 births for every 1, 000 of the population. this birth rate was well ahead of sweden and the uk (11. 8 per 1, 000) and france (11. 7 per 1, 000) .
when timothy asks about the identity of a bespectacled baby ordering people around in baby business land (it’s not the actual name, but it might as well be) and the boss baby responds with “that’s my boss, big boss baby, ” i howled in laughter and marveled at the strangeness. there’s a reference to julia child, another to “raiders of the lost ark. ” there’s a scene in which our main characters board a plain filled with elvis impersonators to get to los angeles. there’s a talking gandalf alarm clock named “wizzie. ”
i absolutely love this film - watched this years ago when it was shown on television, and then i just had to buy it when it came out on dvd. it has a great story and i think diane keaton really shines (as does the baby !), and together it makes this film memorable. i don' t know exactly which bit appeals to me the most - whether it' s that diane keaton' s character - j. c. wiatt, not only manages to take on the challenge of suddenly becoming a mother (after inheriting a baby !) but also when she as good as puts two fingers up to her old employers, when she starts her own extremely successful baby food business in the country, and she shows them that she really can
have it all
( which you' ll understand better when you watch this film). this film comes highly recommended, and is one that you will watch over and over again .
bridget gets pregnant and hilarity ensues as both men have to wait until the baby is born to find out who is the biological father .
my 5 star rating says it all! the storyline to this film is heartwarming yet emotional it' s about a hard faced business woman who inherits a child from a cousin who she' s seen once. the price of business woman / motherhood initially costs her a potential promotion and just when she thinks she' s got nothing she discovers the new market of fresh baby food and makes her fortune! this film reminds me so much of me and my daughter. no matter how many times i watch this i always shed a few tears it' s a beautiful beautiful film
kristina and michelle kennedy rotated in as the unexpected inheritance in the 1987 film, directed by charles shyer and also featuring sam shepard and harold ramis .
in addition to being a historic landmark, the hapgood general store was also situated in a beautiful, idyllic setting. it would be a shame to see all this go to waste. from time to time, people still came to the store out of curiosity or to admire the location where “baby boom” was filmed, mr. johnson shared .
and baby makes four! armie hammer and elizabeth chambers' daughter says hello to her new little brother in this adorable family pic from january .
for now, movie executives feel that their core audience is between the ages of 20 and 35. when studios catered to a 12 - to 20 - year - old core audience, the emphasis was on sexual initiation. now it is on procreation. recent movies about having babies include'' three men and a baby,'''' parenthood,'''' look who' s talking,'' a movie told from the point of view of an infant,'' baby boom'' and'' she' s having a baby.'' the first three hit the box - office jackpot .
special features include the traditional isolated music & effects track, which is a great way to appreciate the work done by composer bill conti. while it doesn’t match the heights of his work for both the rocky and the karate kid series, it’s still worth a listen. in addition to an original theatrical trailer, there’s also an audio commentary with film historians julie kirgo and nick redman. as well as offering details and critique on the film itself, it’s actually a really enjoyable conversations between the pair who actually delve into their own personal lives, relating to the sudden change a baby can bring to their lives. the release also contains a booklet featuring another essay on the film from kirgo, as well as a number of film stills to illustrate .
the ballad of narayama
is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. what a space it opens…
diane is a busy business woman who' s life is turned upside down when a baby comes along. she retires to the country where she has a bottomless pit of a house. she falls for a vet. she makes baby food which she sells across the country. funny movie .
the place of the woman in the workplace of the 1980s, the theme which baby boom immediately and rather flagrantly establishes, complete with a documentary - style opening narration by journalist linda ellerbee, is subtly perpetuated in the remainder of the film by a quirk of the plot. right off, her character loses it all, but at the end, in a plot about - face, she gets it all back, and more, possesses what the opening scenario set down as unobtainable for a woman—job and family .
kris swanberg ’s new feature “unexpected” (hey, look at that title) does the same thing, with a fresh twist. while “baby boom” is continually focused on the impact elizabeth has on j. c. ’s career, from her quitting her beloved (if very tough) job to give the pair a better life and then deciding to become an applesauce manufacturer (mostly due to baby elizabeth’s adoration for j. c. ’s homemade sauce, good enough to inspire the new mom to turn it into a thriving business, run right out of their dilapidated farmhouse), swanberg’s film eases into the professional fallout from samantha’s (cobie smulders) unexpected pregnancy .
once their films are in cinemas, it’s not unusual for their work to receive unduly harsh criticism; vulture’s mynette louie spoke to a number of female film - makers this year who reported that “the hollywood psyche” is often shaped by the critical consensus of “a fleet of film critics whose ranks are 80% male” .
written by nancy meyers and charles shyer and directed by shyer, baby boom (1987) is a romantic comedy with an edge, starring the superb diane keaton as a driven manhattan career woman who finds her life turned upside down when she “inherits” a baby. a semi - satiric fantasy unfurls as she loses her job and her yuppie boyfriend (harold ramis), moves with baby to a deeply picturesque if falling - down vermont house, and meets a helpful gary cooper - ish vet (sam shepard). gorgeously shot by william a. fraker, and featuring an iconic score by the great bill conti (broadcast news, the right stuff) .
'' baby boom,'' which opens today at the 84th street six and other theaters, envisions a predictable but amusing set of adventures for j. c. once her hard - boiled business persona begins falling apart. that happens because she inherits a baby through the sort of plot twist that automatically destroys the film' s already slight claims to authenticity. the baby' s parents were killed; j. c. is the child' s only living relative; the little girl is brought all the way from england and delivered to j. c. before she can say no; the only people who want to adopt her are awful. the screenplay, by charles shyer and nancy meyers (mr. shyer directed), wastes no more energy than that on explaining this outlandish twist of fate .
giving voice to more women in the film industry doesn’t simply mean more female directors and writers, but critics too. and the critical respect offered to female film - makers who work in a macho (and thus, acceptable) milieu, like kathryn bigelow, should be extended to those who make “women’s movies”, too .
baby boom
( opening today at selected theaters) should strike fear in the heart of every avowedly single workaholic, those of us who put in 12 - hour days, with everything else in life second. the worst that could happen to us is for someone to stick us with an infant, right? who knows from diapers? who wants to know ?
baby boom [ dvd ] [ 1987 ]: urltoken diane keaton, sam shepard, harold ramis, kristina kennedy, michelle kennedy, sam wanamaker, james spader, pat hingle, britt leach, linda ellerbee, kim sebastian, mary gross, william a. fraker, charles shyer, lynzee klingman, bruce a. block, nancy meyers: dvd & blu - ray
in any case, j. c. is ill prepared for such an inconvenience. she' s not a woman with time to spare. (the film shows j. c. and her live - in mate, played by harold ramis, grudgingly allocating four minutes for sex one evening before going right back to their reading .) so she tries to check the baby in a coatroom when she has a business lunch; she fastens a diaper with electrical tape; she cooks the baby a fashionable little pasta dinner and then, when the baby gets pasta all over herself, tries to handle the mess with household cleaner .
j. c. wiatt is a successful new york business woman known around town as the
tiger lady .
she gets news of an inheritance from a relative from another country and off the bat she suspects it' s money. well it' s not money, it' s a baby girl. at first she doesn' t accept until the lady that gives the baby to her has to catch her flight. j. c. is now stuck with an annoying baby girl. her boyfriend doesn' t like the idea of a baby living with them and he leaves her. j. c. has enough of it and takes her to meet a family ready to adopt her. she leaves but hears the baby cry while walking away and has to go back. the baby is too attached to her now and won' t let her go. later, her baby gets into mischief which causes her to get fired. now, she sets her eyes on an old two story cottage in vermont to get out of the new york life. when she arrives, the house needs more help than originally thought. she gets bored one snowy day and decides to make apple sauce. her baby loves it and she decides to sell ...
j. c. wiatt is a successful new york business woman known around town as the
tiger lady .
she gets news of an inheritance from a relative from another country and off the bat she suspects it' s money. well it' s not money, it' s a baby girl. at first she doesn' t accept until the lady that gives the baby to her has to catch her flight. j. c. is now stuck with an annoying baby girl. her boyfriend doesn' t like the idea of a baby living with them and he leaves her. j. c. has enough of it and takes her to meet a family ready to adopt her. she leaves but hears the baby cry while walking away and has to go back. the baby is too attached to her now and won' t let her go. later, her baby gets into mischief which causes her to get fired. now, she sets her eyes on an old two story cottage in vermont to get out of the new york life. when she arrives, the house needs more help than originally thought. she gets bored one snowy day and decides to make apple sauce. her baby loves it and she decides to sell it. pretty soon everyone wants some of the baby apple sauce. j. c. hits it big and falls in love with a local veterinarian. was this fate or destiny ?
female film - makers are up against it long before their film hits the cinemas, from the initial pitch all the way through to the critics’ screenings. behind the scenes, they are hampered by misguided perceptions of women directors, writers and producers as being part of a “shallow talent pool”, as a sundance institute study revealed this year .
from left, jon hamm, kevin spacey and jamie foxx in a film crammed with cubistic action, glowering and golly - gee types and an encyclopedia of cinematic allusion .
despite its success in the uk, and american actress renee zellweger in the lead, the film failed to win us audience with just $ 21 million taken state side .
baby boom is a polished venture, especially in terms of writing. nancy meyers and charles shyer, who wrote the goldie hawn vehicle private benjamin and the popular father of the bride series, balance sweetness and goofy vibes with a more wry edge. sentimental without being cloying, relatable without being overly dramatic. it’s predictable, sure, but what do you expect from an ‘80s rom - com ?
the 1995 battle seemed to mark one of those hollywood turning points, like the races of 1968 or 2006 or 2011, when it wasn’t merely two movies clashing, but two competing visions of what movies should be. on one side was forrest gump, a hollywood historical epic that broke some new technical ground in digital manipulation of existing film footage (the trickery that allowed tom hanks’ forrest to interact with various long - dead historical figures). still, it told a fairly traditional story, full of candy - box pieties and accompanied by a baby boom’s greatest hits soundtrack .
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 and the hat - check attendant is an example, as keaton thrusts the squawling infant across the counter and promises
a big, big tip
). but after the film' s turning point, it goes from a satire into an escapist fantasy, a harmless one, in one of those worlds where everything turns out more or less right, because folks are more or less nice .
all of this is too good to be true, of course, but that' s why i enjoyed it .
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. the screenplay, written by producer nancy meyers and director charles shyer, has some of the same literate charm as their previous film ,
irreconcilable differences ,
and some of the same sly observation of a generation that wages an interior war between selfishness and good nature .
this film proves how political correctness can damage a movie. baby boom made the point that a demanding career can hurt the personal lives of women, as well as men. but in the intern, jules has a stay - at - home husband and an adorable daughter in addition to a stimulating career. it’s all a little too perfect. there is one surprise twist in the third act that suggests her life may not be as ideal as she thinks. but even this stumbling block is resolved much too quickly and neatly. the whole movie is way too tepid to scintillate .
when she inherits the baby, she’s not immediately an amazing parent. it’s hard to imagine any woman being adequately prepared for first - time parenthood, especially if that role were unceremoniously thrust upon her. when wiatt is presented with baby elizabeth, she and yuppie boyfriend stephen (played by harold ramis) immediately make her a lovely linguini à la vodka and can’t seem to figure out the whole diaper thing. similar new - parent issues happen to the baffled male title characters in three men and a baby (which appeared just one month after baby boom) and kirstie alley’s white - collar single mother two years later in look who’s talking, but more recent relatives tackling questions about how unplanned parenthood may alter a woman’s career path and throw a working girl for a loop can be found in raising helen and knocked up. bottom line: we aren' t wired for parenthood! it' s a process .
when it comes to this sort of detail,'' baby boom'' is as funny as it is contrived. and miss keaton has a wonderfully maniacal gleam in her eye each time she masters some new baby - related trick. the film also does well when it pokes fun at the high - pressure world of the new york child, a world in which bewildered tots attend strenuous gym classes while their parents wail over private - school rejections. eventually, all of this leaves j. c.' s glamorous career in ruins (james spader is effectively unctuous as the bright young thing campaigning for her job). and j. c. is seen crumpled on the steps in front of her high - rise office building in tears .
charles shyer’s 1987 dramedy “baby boom” could have easily been titled “ unexpected. ” the diane keaton - starring feature tracks keaton’s career - minded j. c. wiatt (she’s known in some circles as “the tiger lady, ” she’s just that vicious when it comes to business) as she, well, unexpectedly finds herself thrust into motherhood. j. c. doesn’t even get to enjoy a pregnancy and all the bonding and preparation that goes with it, as her baby — or, in the beginning at least, the baby in question — all but shows up on her doorstep, a somewhat strange inheritance left to her by a distant relative (one she had not seen in decades and did not even realize was a mother) .
this story could have been told as a satire, but the filmmakers aren' t quite sure. they see a lot of humor in the yuppie' s lifestyle, but they love the baby so much that the movie finally turns into a sweet romance. i guess that' s all right. it sure is a cute baby .
, starring diane keaton in the lead role of j. c. wiatt, a. k. a .
the tiger lady .
billed as
an unexpected comedy ,
the film depicts the life of a corporate businesswoman turned upside - down when she unwittingly inherits a baby. charles shyer and nancy meyers, filmmaking partners and husband and wife at the time, shared writing responsibilities with shyer doubling as the film' s director and meyers moonlighting as the producer. the two had honed their craft on such films as
the executives who make and sell movies agree that the return of older moviegoers is more than a temporary aberration. as the baby boom generation ages, it is doing a remarkable thing. it is continuing to go to the movies instead of staying home and watching television. the usual explanation is that 45 - year - olds have been stimulated by clean and glitzy theaters and by the experience of watching movies on videocassette .
see, wiatt is not really a “mom” in the biological sense—keaton herself has never married—and this interruption in her job focus is the inheritance of a baby from a distant relative. baby elizabeth (alternately twins kristina and michelle kennedy) is a cutie, as most babies are, and there is almost an immediate bond. wiatt surrenders to the little one’s charms before she realizes it, lugging home a carload of essential baby things. her live - in boyfriend (harold ramis), a specialist in five - minute copulations, wants no part of playing father, or, for that matter, helping to make a baby himself. this intrusion on his space was not part of their living arrangement .
3 men and a baby
— starring tom selleck, steve guttenberg, and ted danson — has raked in over $ 167 million since it came out in 1987 .
j. c. ’s journey — she eventually abandons plans to adopt out elizabeth, quits her job and moves to vermont to soak up the country life — makes for a very entertaining film, one complete with all sorts of wacky storylines related to j. c. and elizabeth’s acclimation to a laidback small town (including a house riddled with problems and a welcoming, if still cautious reception from the local folk — “baby boom” makes a fine companion to “funny farm, ” and that’s partially due to the fact that both were filmed in southern vermont, which is rife with teensy hamlets that boast population counts that barely crack triple digits). although shyer’s film is funny and sweet, it also takes on some hefty ideas, especially an honest depiction of the struggles women face with work - life balance .
today, the twins — who got the role after their parents brought them to an open audition in new york city — have also shunned the film industry and both work as school teachers .
baby boom tells of j. c. wiatt, aka the “tiger lady, ” a woman already at the top who finds her life thrown into chaos when a distant cousin is killed in a car accident and leaves their baby elizabeth in her care. her job is one that requires her commitment 24 / 7; a male partner at the firm states he doesn’t even know how many grandchildren he has. success often comes with sacrifice. when she finds herself being pushed out, she goes all the way and quits, heading to vermont for a more simple way of life, to focus on being a mother .
the
tiger lady
executive played by diane keaton in 1987' s
baby boom
never stood a chance when she inherited adorable 1 - year - old elizabeth, played by kristina and michelle kennedy. on tuesday, the now - grown twins, along with parents jim and diane, stopped by today to talk about how they inadvertently
gamed
the audition process, and what it was like to meet keaton years later .
it is the most major awards (a category encompassing best picture, director and the four acting awards) for one film since 1992, when
the silence of the lambs
won four .
“four weddings and a funeral was a light bulb moment for us where a non - american film could really do big commercial business and it’s great that the audience has come along for that. ”
the film frames much of this upheaval against the attitude towards women in the ‘80s, which sadly has not made much progress since, especially in terms of equality in the workplace and paychecks. the other notable cinematic instance of women looking to get ahead and the obstacles in their way from this era was working girl, but baby boom weaves in aspects of being a working single mother. wiatt’s arc is nicely handled in that it’s not just a simple choice between being a businesswoman and being a parent, but more on being a success. how we measure it, how we define it, and how those things change throughout our lives. she loses one career, but her innate talent and persistence leads to something else. it’s a rather sweet, hopeful tale, if a little neat. this is where the film is somewhat undermined, at least in the stark contrast to the reality of many women dealing with being a single parent. she’s frankly in a cozy situation where she has plenty in the bank to be able to begin a different life; it makes for more palatable entertainment rather then the real drama most would endure in such circumstance. it certainly rids the film of some of its resonance and will rub many the wrong way. other aspects of the film show its age (a joke about a muslim nanny falls shockingly flat), but for the most part, the film has slipped into nostalgic fuzziness .
baby boom, directed by charles shyer; written by nancy meyers and mr. shyer; director of photography, william a. fraker; film editor, lynzee klingman; music by bill conti; production designer, jeffrey howard; produced by miss meyers; released by united artists pictures. at 84th street six, at broadway; 34th street showplace, between second and third avenues; new york twin, second avenue and 66th street; embassy 1, broadway at 46th street, and other theaters. running time: 103 minutes. this film is rated pg. j. c. wiatt... diane keaton dr. jeff cooper... sam shepard steven buchner... harold ramis fritz curtis... sam wanamaker ken arrenberg... james spader hughes larrabee... pat hingle elizabeth wiatt... kristina and michelle kennedy
kristina and michelle kennedy, the twins who rotated in as elizabeth wiatt in the 1987 film, appeared on today on tuesday morning to chat about starring as diane keaton' s unexpected bundle of joy .
so far the air of uncertainty that surrounds the potential impact of brexit hasn’t affected the uk’s role in european co - productions or the british film - making sector. the weakening currency and huge financial carrot of tax credits for film companies choosing to shoot here continues to make britain attractive. “for the coming 24 months we are actually looking to increase our activity in the uk, ” says bluemhuber. “the weak pound is good because, along with the tax breaks, we get a lot of production value. we are setting up a new tv and film production company in the uk and investing more. ”
at this point the film makes a ridiculous error, sending j. c. off to a little vermont town to lead a simpler life. it becomes all too clear that neither j. c. nor the makers of the film would know a little vermont town if it bit them - or a simpler life, either. not long after buying a picture - perfect house, sight unseen, though an ad in the new york times magazine (the film is a lot funnier when it shows a pre - baby j. c. daydreaming about this in new york than actually doing it), she uses produce from her own orchard to develop a classy little recipe for baby applesauce. and soon there is talk about marketing this stuff and landing it in every supermarket in america - so much for simplicity. it doesn' t help that every blossom in the vermont town appears to have come directly from the florist, or that sam shepard turns up as a conveniently lonely small - town bachelor .
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the title song by george and ira gershwin, he said,'' is sung on the soundtrack by sting, roberta flack and gene ammons, which may be more often than you want to hear it.'' baby boom starring diane keaton, sam shepard, harold ramis, sam wanamaker, james spader, pat hingle. directed by charles shyer. 1987. cbs / fox video. 106 minutes. $ 89. 98. rated pg. occasional strong language .
the story line is not very likely, the reviewer said -'' neither j. c. nor the makers of the film would know a little vermont town if it bit them'' - but'' ms. keaton' s comically exaggerated toughness and absurd self - confidence make the performance a delight. for an hour or so, at least,' baby boom' is wicked enough to have a real edge.'' harold ramis plays j. c.' s stuffed shirt of a boyfriend early in the film, and sam shepard is the love interest in vermont. the running man starring arnold schwarzenegger, maria conchita alonso, yaphet kotto, marvin j. mcintyre, richard dawson, jim brown, jesse ventura, dweezil zappa, mick fleetwood. directed by paul michael glaser. 1987. vestron video. 101 minutes. $ 89. 98. rated r.
baby boom is a 1987 romantic comedy film directed by charles shyer , written by nancy meyers and shyer , and produced by meyers and bruce a. block for united artists . it stars diane keaton as a yuppie who discovers that a long-lost cousin has died , leaving her a six-month-old baby girl as inheritance . the film received generally favorable reviews and was a modest box-office success during its original run , eventually grossing $ 26 million . the film launched a subsequent television show , running from 1988 to 1989 , and was nominated for two golden globe awards . 
baby boom is a 1987 romantic comedy film directed by charles shyer, written by nancy meyers and shyer, and produced by meyers and bruce a. block for united artists. it stars diane keaton as a yuppie who discovers that a long-lost cousin has died, leaving her a six-month-old baby girl as inheritance. the film received generally favorable reviews and was a modest box-office success during its original run, eventually grossing $ 26 million. the film launched a subsequent television show, running from 1988 to 1989, and was nominated for two golden globe awards.
baby boom is a 1987 romantic comedy film directed by charles shyer, written by nancy meyers and shyer, and produced by meyers and bruce a. block for united artists. it stars diane keaton as a yuppie who discovers that a long-lost cousin has died, leaving her a six-month-old baby girl as inheritance. the film received generally favorable reviews and was a modest box-office success during its original run, eventually grossing $ 26 million. the film launched a subsequent television show, running from 1988 to 1989, and was nominated for two golden globe awards.