Baby Boom (1987)

	Directed by: Charles Shyer	COUNTRY USA GENRE Comedy/Drama/Romance NORWEGIAN TITLE Baby Boom RUNNING TIME 110 minutes
	Produced by: Nancy Meyers Bruce A. Block
	Written by: Nancy Meyers Charles Shyer

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
J.C. Wiatt	Diane Keaton
Dr. Jeff Cooper	Sam Shepard
Steven Buchner	Harold Ramis	½
Fritz Curtis	Sam Wanamaker	½
Ken Arrenberg	James Spader	½
Hughes Larrabee	Pat Hingle	½
Verne Boone	Britt Leach	-
Yuppie Husband	Chris Noth	-

Review

Three Men and a Baby meets Wall Street and Nancy Meyer's brand of feminism in this obscure dramedy about the then relatively new dilemma for high-end career women: how to handle a 75-hour executive position and having a baby (involuntarily at that) at the same time. The film looks and plays very 1980s, from the generically poppy music to the puffy costumes and upbeat storytelling. Diane Keaton stars as the woman who "inherits" a baby, and gives a performance typical of this period in her career: slightly self-conscious and extremely energetic. It might have worked better if Meyer's script were a little funnier. The challenges Keaton faces in juggling her career with her new life as a stand-in mother are too stereotypical and overblown to come across with the intended cuteness. Baby Boom may have had a certain allure for a specific demographic back in the day, but it hasn’t held up very well. James Spader appears as Keaton’s office assistant; if only we’d seen more of him. And when Sam Shepard comes in to save the day with some obligatory romance, the film truly paints itself into the least uninspired rom-com corner.