Archives: 2007 November

Baby Boom stars Diane Keaton as a fierce businesswoman who finds her life thrown into disarray when a far-distant relative leaves a baby girl under her protection.

She’s a ruthlessly successful executive, and has no real interest in becoming a mother but eventually the baby melts her heart, so she quits her job and heads on [...]

She’s Having A Baby is a lightweight comedy from John Hughes that centers around a newly married couple trying to make it in the world. Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth McGovern star as the couple who overcome obstacles like getting a place to live, getting a job and having a baby.

The movie’s situations feel real, [...]

Look Who’s Talking has Kirstie Alley as an unwed mother, with her baby Mikey voiced by Bruce Willis, as the product of an affair with married businessman George Segal. John Travolta is a cab driver who becomes Mikey’s babysitter and substitute father.

Great comedy that works well in many ways. Best is the humorous, charming, and [...]

Three Men and a Baby is what they call a “high concept” flick. At the start we meet three handsome and popular yuppie bachelors, Ted Danson, Tom Selleck and Steve Guttenberg. All’s well in their world until they’re asked to look after a package, and apparently it turns out to be a baby girl!

This [...]

is an early Coen brothers film with Nic Cage and Holly Hunter. It’s the blackest, most twisted, demented comedy you could imagine. A childless couple plot to kidnap a cute baby from a rich family who have quintuplets.

Fortunately, it falls squarely within the bounds screwball comedy. It’s a love it or hate it kind of [...]