The life of super-yuppie J.C. is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative.
Director:
Charles Shyer
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Diane Keaton | ... | J.C. Wiatt | |
| Sam Shepard | ... | Dr. Jeff Cooper | |
| Harold Ramis | ... | Steven Buchner | |
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Kristina Kennedy | ... | Elizabeth Wiatt |
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Michelle Kennedy | ... | Elizabeth Wiatt |
| Sam Wanamaker | ... | Fritz Curtis | |
| James Spader | ... | Ken Arrenberg | |
| Pat Hingle | ... | Hughes Larrabee | |
| Britt Leach | ... | Verne Boone | |
| Linda Ellerbee | ... | Narrator | |
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Kim Sebastian | ... | Robin |
| Mary Gross | ... | Charlotte Elkman | |
| Patricia Estrin | ... | Secretary | |
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Elizabeth Bennett | ... | Mrs. Atwood |
| Peter Elbling | ... | Maitre D' | |
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J.C. Wiatt is a successful New York business woman known around town as the "tiger lady." She gets news of an inheritance from a relative from another country and off the bat she suspects it's money. Well it's not money, it's a baby girl. At first she doesn't accept until the lady that gives the baby to her has to catch her flight. J.C. is now stuck with an annoying baby girl. Her boyfriend doesn't like the idea of a baby living with them and he leaves her. J.C. has enough of it and takes her to meet a family ready to adopt her. She leaves but hears the baby cry while walking away and has to go back. The baby is too attached to her now and won't let her go. Later, her baby gets into mischief which causes her to get fired. Now, she sets her eyes on an old two story cottage in Vermont to get out of the New York life. When she arrives, the house needs more help than originally thought. She gets bored one snowy day and decides to make apple sauce. Her baby loves it and she decides to sell... Written by Kyle <Kyleshivers@aol.com>
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30 October 1987 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Box Office
Opening Weekend USA:
$1,357,413, 12 October 1987Gross USA:
$26,712,476Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$26,712,476Company Credits
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J.C. Wiatt: Yeah, I bet you say that to all the girls.
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(uncredited)
Music by Arthur Johnston
Performed by The Moonlighters at the town dance
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One film in a late 1980s Hollywood cycle of "baby pictures". The movies include Baby Boom (1987), For Keeps? (1988), Immediate Family (1989), 3 Men and a Baby (1987) (which was based on the then recent French film Three Men and a Cradle (1985)), She's Having a Baby (1988), and Look Who's Talking (1989), with the latter followed early in the 1990s with Look Who's Talking Too (1990). See more »Goofs
Door on plumber's van at the new house. See more »Quotes
Doctor Jeff Cooper: You know... you kind of remind me of a bull terrier of some kind.J.C. Wiatt: Yeah, I bet you say that to all the girls.
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Pennies from Heaven(uncredited)
Music by Arthur Johnston
Performed by The Moonlighters at the town dance
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J.C. (Diane Keaton) is a business executive with a fast-paced existence, including power lunches, serious hair and more. Her life is turned upside down, however, when a close relative dies and leaves J.C. in charge of a toddler girl. Suddenly, big promotions or assignments are not coming J.C.'s way and she decides to move to Vermont and be a stay at home mother. There, she meets attractive Dr. Jeff (Sam Shepard). However, her old house needs many repairs and she must make some cash. Will she opt to return to her former life?
This darling movie features Keaton at the top of her game. Her initial reactions to becoming a mother are hilarious. Shepard, also, does a fun turn as the one eligible bachelor anywhere in sight in the Vermont setting. Big corporations take a pretty severe beating as depicted in this film but it is all in fun. If you go to the library or video store and the hot new stuff is checked out, try to find this film instead. It is worthy of recognition among those who like romance movies and for those who think they don't.