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Baby Boom
1987
When J.C. Wiatt, a total workaholic in charge of her life and career, inherits a 13-month-old baby girl, she finds her life is no longer her own. Fleeing the city and moving to the country, J.C. and Elizabeth market their own applesauce, which becomes a nationwide success. But do they return to the fast track or not Read more
| Starring | Diane Keaton, Harold Ramis, Zoe Wanamaker, Sam Shepard |
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| Director | Charles Shyer |
| Genres | Comedy |
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Baby Boom
When J.C. Wiatt, a total workaholic in charge of her life and career, inherits a 13-month-old baby girl, she finds her life is no longer her own. Fleeing the city and moving to the country, J.C. and Elizabeth market their own applesauce, which becomes a nationwide success. But do they return to the fast track or not
| Starring | Diane Keaton, Harold Ramis, Zoe Wanamaker, Sam Shepard, James Spader, Pat Hingle |
|---|---|
| Director | Charles Shyer |
| Studio | MGM ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 46 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | English |
| Released | DVD: 11 Mar 2002 Production year: 1987 |
| Format | DVD |
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Diane Keaton stars here as a ruthless New York executive whose business ambitions falter when she's forced to foster a dead relative's baby girl. The men in her life — boss Sam Wanamaker and lover Harold Ramis — aren't sympathetic to her new working mother status, so she buys a money-pit mansion in the country and tries to make it on her own, with local veterinarian Sam Shepard popping in to borrow an egg or two. Allegedly pro-feminist, it still defines a woman by the males who influence her, though its mix of cuteness and acuteness make it one of Keaton's most likeable films.
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A working woman's fantasy, mixing cute in both the business acumen and coochy-coo varieties. Keaton (uneasily neurotic... read more on Time Out
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For the working woman
This is an excellent portrayal of how people react and come to terms with the thought of bringing up a child and when you can juggle work with it all then even better although when watching this it looks difficult at first after a while you see it isn't really that difficult.
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For the working woman
This is an excellent portrayal of how people react and come to terms with the thought of bringing up a child and when you can juggle work with it all then even better although when watching this it looks difficult at first after a while you see it isn't really that difficult.
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