One Businesswoman & A Little Baby (Baby Boom (DVD))

Member Name: MattRoberts

Product:	Baby Boom (DVD)
Date:	18/08/03 (63 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Keatons acting , first half of film good

Disadvantages: second half of film not too good , dissapointing ending

Diane Keaton is one of those film stars you always expect to play serious parts. To be the nice mommy or even the tough businesswoman, I never expect her to be funny in a film.

But, if you think about it she’s always cropping up in comedies, and those are most of the films she does. She’s done the first and second Father Of The Bride, First Wives Club, and who can forget Baby Boom?

Baby Boom was made in the late eighties, and Diane Keaton became even more popular after it. I enjoy the film so much because I feel I’m a bit like the main character, even though she’s female, I can relate to her, and when you can relate to a character in a film, you immediately love it!

Baby Boom is a touching story that’ll have you pitying, hating, laughing at, loving, crying over and most importantly enjoying the characters, which will lead you to enjoy the film…


**Cast and Other Info**

Diane Keaton ...J.C. Wiatt

Sam Shepard ...Dr. Jeff Cooper

Harold Ramis ...Steven Bochner

Directed by … Charles Shyer

Certificate … PG

Made In … 1987


**The Plot**

J.C is a very happy businesswoman. She has a steady relationship. She’s earning thousands a year, and better still she enjoys her work. What could go wrong? Could it get better? Well, both could happen!

The thing that could get better is she could become partner in her work. The bad thing that could happen is, you could be lumbered with a baby…

Late at night, after exactly four minutes of no frills sex with her boyfriend, J.C gets a phone call from London. Her far away cousin, whom she met when she was four years old, has died, and left her something in her will.

The next day, she goes to the airport, to pick up her “will”. It turns out, her will is a three-year-old baby named Elizabeth, and J.C is expected to look after h
er…

J.C immediately plans to give the baby up for adoption, because her work is suffering, and it is obvious she hasn’t got any maternal instinct at all, and she isn’t a very good Mother to Elizabeth.

After taking Elizabeth to adoption clinic, she pulls out, and can’t do it. But, little did J.C know that a baby could ruin your whole life.

After her boyfriend leaves her, she hires many nannies, but ends up being fired. J/C wants to care for Elizabeth and give her, her undivided attention, so New Yorker J/C who loves the city, leaves to live in the country…


**Performances**

Diane Keaton is a very talented actress, and she has to play two different parts in this film, because half way through the film, J.C begins to have more of a maternal side, and suddenly she changes a lot.

The J.C we see in the beginning of the film is very different to the one we see later on in the film, so Diane Keaton managed to create that change from businesswoman to loving and devoted Mother.

Even though Diane Keaton can be rather jarry, and doesn’t seem the perfect mother-type, that is why, I believe, she was chosen for the film. The impression I get of Diane Keaton is that she isn’t the best of Mother’s in real life, and loves to work.

J.C is exactly the same, and I feel Diane Keaton works so well as her character because she’s very similar to her in real life, and she can relate to J.C. I think that’s very important in a film, and Keaton managed to tackle it.

Keaton had to make the film herself. She had no other main character, and there wasn’t one character that was in the whole film, except from Keaton, so she had to make it a success.

She played the comical parts very well, and although the whole film is good, the beginning is better, because seeing Keaton play the flustered J.C is absolutely brilliant. She’s forever pan
icking, and the way she carries the Baby is hilarious!

Keaton wasn’t outstanding in this film, but she managed to carry it out by herself. She was funny and entertaining, and that is what I mostly look for in a film.


**My Opinion**

Baby Boom is one of those films that either doesn’t really affect you, or does. With me it did. J.C was adamant she never wanted a child, as am I, but she had her mind changed in the film, and it makes you think whether you will half way through your life.

I could really relate to J.C at times, and the likeness, even though I am male and much younger, is very strong. I feel that if you can relate to a character, you can certainly enjoy the film that bit more.

Because I related myself to J.C I was expecting a very good ending. Sadly, I was highly disappointed by the ending, because even though it was simple, and happy, I felt there could’ve been a disaster, for example, someone else wanted to keep Elizabeth.

The good parts of the film are Keaton’s comical parts. She really plays them well, and entertainingly well also, and as I’ve said, at the beginning, she is very funny, and I highly enjoyed watching her!

Halfway through the film, there is a love interest, and to me, it was a bit cliché, and I didn’t like it, because it was too predictable of what was going to happen in the rest of the film.

In a way I loved Baby Boom, but in another I was a bit disappointed by it. Maybe, my expectations were too high, but the first half of the film was better than the second half, and I didn’t really enjoy the ending.


**Baby Boom on VHS and DVD**

Baby Boom is worth buying, because even though it’s not the best of films, it’s a good one to watch now and again. You can buy both the DVD and VHS from Amazon. The VHS costing £5.99 and the DVD costing £12.99. Both rather reasonable prices.

**All i
n all**

I enjoyed Baby Boom, and I advise people who don’t want children to watch it. It’s probably aimed at family viewing, and a family would probably enjoy the clichéd ending, but I expected more. All in all, good, but not brilliant.


Written By: Matt Roberts.

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