Well intentioned and okay acted, but I found this story about misguided mother love to be a crass comment on female liberation and how it impacts their children. Having been just fine with "Baby Boom", Oscar winning Diane Keaton followed it up with another story about single motherhood, mixing it with her divorced character's new boyfriend, the always exciting Liam Neeson. As their love affair increases in heat, she becomes careless, and an absurd moment involving Neeson and her very young moment threatens everything.
Yeah, a big "eew!" factor occurs when the adolescent little girl asks for the opportunity to touch Neeson to which any smart adult would say absolutely not, and suggest that child get some therapy. But then, smart adults like Keaton and Neeson would make sure that the door is locked, and that questions about sexuality wouldn't be dealt with until an appropriate age. I can usually stomach even the oddest plotlines, but how this even entered someone's mind to write or later make a film of is pretty perplexing. Veteran Oscar winning actress Teresa Wright offers a bit of class, as does Ralph Bellamy, but that's the only class inside this oddball drama that obviously derailed Leonard Nimoy's directing career outside of "Star Trek".
Yeah, a big "eew!" factor occurs when the adolescent little girl asks for the opportunity to touch Neeson to which any smart adult would say absolutely not, and suggest that child get some therapy. But then, smart adults like Keaton and Neeson would make sure that the door is locked, and that questions about sexuality wouldn't be dealt with until an appropriate age. I can usually stomach even the oddest plotlines, but how this even entered someone's mind to write or later make a film of is pretty perplexing. Veteran Oscar winning actress Teresa Wright offers a bit of class, as does Ralph Bellamy, but that's the only class inside this oddball drama that obviously derailed Leonard Nimoy's directing career outside of "Star Trek".