Review of Baby Boom (1987) by Stuart K — 05 Aug 2013

Directed by Charles Shyer (Father of the Bride (1991) and Alfie (2004)), and co-written and produced with Nancy Meyers (What Women Want (2000), The Holiday (2006) and It's Complicated (2009)). This is a very amusing comedy about the selfish yuppie generation of the 1980's, and how one change in life can make a lifetime of difference.

J.C. Wiatt (Diane Keaton) is a fast-living, hard-nosed career woman working in Manhattan, she lives with investment banker Steven Buchner (Harold Ramis), but they have no time for a proper relationship.

However, J.C. gets the news that she's inherited toddler Elizabeth (twins Kristina and Michelle Kennedy) from a cousin in England she hasn't seen in over 30 years. So J.C.'s life is turned upside down, which costs J.

C. her job and relationship, attempts to put Elizabeth up for adoption fail. She and Elizabeth get away from it all, and move to Vermont, where J.C. starts over, and tries to make a new life. It's got some very funny moments, and Keaton puts in a hilarious performance as the career woman, whose life is turned upside down.

But it is a comment on the me-me-me generation of the 1980's, and telling people to slow down and love life.