- Also Known As:
- Unknown
- Year:
- 1987
- Country:
- Predominant Genre:
- Comedy
- Director:
- Outstanding Performance:
- Premiss:
- The life of super-yuppie is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative.
- Theme(s):
- Christianity
- Compassion
- Destiny
- Emotional repression
- Friendship
- Guilt
- Loneliness
- Personal change
- Political Correctness
- Self-expression
- White culture
- Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
- Adam’s Rib
- Review Format:
- DVD
Gently-amusing comedy about rapidly-changing sex roles in the West.
Trying to balance a career and motherhood is still harder for women than it is for men, since the workplace in the Western world is designed with men in mind. Yet, this movie shows a woman who manages to balance marriage, children and a successful business - on her own terms. And she does so by not trying so hard to be like a man that she becomes an empty vessel as a woman.
Where the film fails somewhat is in not making enough social commentary to support the humor - the latter of which is seen as somehow more important. Unlike, say, Adam’s Rib, this movie does not go for the jugular of male chauvinism as keenly as it might have done.
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