J.C. Wiatt (Diane Keaton) is a driven New York executive. She gets an inheritance from cousin Andy whom she hasn't seen since 1954, but it turns out to be a little baby girl. Her life is turned upside down. Her boyfriend Steven (Harold Ramis) can't take it and leaves. She moves out into the country. There he meets Dr. Jeff Cooper (Sam Shepard).
While it had a few funny moments, this is all very cliché. Diane Keaton acts like an idiot around a kid. The kid playing around with the spaghetti was very cute. And it was scary how Keaton lugged her around like a sack of potatoes. But it also gets very hammy like when Keaton has to use a thermometer on the baby. The jokes go over the line time after time from funny to stupid. She's a grown woman, not an idiot. Just when things start to look silly, they hit you with the adoption melodrama. It's tear jerker at its best, and its most manipulative. And that's how I feel about this movie. It jerks you around from one contrivance after another. Sometimes it works. Sometime it doesn't. It just drove me nuts to see a possibly good movie with a perfectly funny actress fall flat on its face again and again.
While it had a few funny moments, this is all very cliché. Diane Keaton acts like an idiot around a kid. The kid playing around with the spaghetti was very cute. And it was scary how Keaton lugged her around like a sack of potatoes. But it also gets very hammy like when Keaton has to use a thermometer on the baby. The jokes go over the line time after time from funny to stupid. She's a grown woman, not an idiot. Just when things start to look silly, they hit you with the adoption melodrama. It's tear jerker at its best, and its most manipulative. And that's how I feel about this movie. It jerks you around from one contrivance after another. Sometimes it works. Sometime it doesn't. It just drove me nuts to see a possibly good movie with a perfectly funny actress fall flat on its face again and again.