Baby Boom DVD

Brilliant film

Never tired of watching this movie

Great sound and visual quality.

This is one of my favourite films of all time, about a hard headed business woman, J. C. Wiatt, who suddenly has her whole world turned upside down by the unexpected arrival of a baby. When J.C. inherits something in a will from a distant relative, the last thing she's expecting it to be is a baby. Once she has got over the shock, she decides to put the baby up for adoption, much to the relief of her live in boyfriend. But while he is away, she bonds with the child and is unable to give her up. Her partner cannot tolerate a young child in his life, so they break up. However, J. C. finds it hard being able to juggle a demanding career, with the responsibility of bringing up a child and her work begins to suffer. It doesn't help that she has an ambitious co worker after her job, and in the end he succeeds, leaving J.C. with no choice but to resign from her position. Then begins the second part of the film which is totally different from the first, where J.C. leaves New York and moves to Vermont. She starts her own business selling baby food and meets a man, a country vet and settles in to a new calmer sort of life. Then an opportunity comes along that gives J.C. the chance to return to New York, a success. Now she has a hard decision to make. Will she make the right one? Although this film was made in the eighties, it stands the test of time and is still a gem.

I love this film as it's so funny and heartfelt. Diane Keaton is totally awesome and the story line is excellent. The only problem with this DVD were the subtitles. It took me half an hour to move it off French and German and back to English. I do not want subtitles as I live in this country!! That was the only downside. However once I managed to sort that out the film was lovely. Wish I had bought it sooner!

Very good

This is one of my favourite films for a chill-out session. Perhaps not a totally original storyline, but it works really well - as others have said, possibly down to the magnificent acting by Diane Keaton. The only thing that lets it down for me is that the very young child doesn't age at all - even though they move to the country (to a house that barely makes it through their first winter), and then we see Diane set up a business that becomes so successful an old client of hers want to buy her out..... there's no way that child wouldn't have aged at least a year (more likely at least 2) in the time it would take for that to happen on even a small scale. This DVD purchase was made to replace my VHS copy. I do still have a VCR player, but the tape is getting a bit old and has earned it's retirement - I hadn't realised this film was anywhere near as old as it is !!!

I loved this film, many years ago and it's still as funny. Considering a lot of crap films they produce today. I definitely recommend, maybe one for the ladies, but I know that a few men have thoroughly enjoyed this film too