Love love love this movie, the plot is wonderful.

Cute but insubstantial tale of a yuppie executive who inherits a baby and changes her life. Keaton is well cast but the movie struggles to find any comedic or dramatic momentum.

Typical yuppie trash. Diane Keaton wooden as usual. You knew she was going to wind up with the rugged outsider. Baby was cute.

I suppose one could call this a romantic comedy, but what makes me so appreciative and what makes this a bit more refreshing than the average romcom is that the boyfriend takes a backseat to the kid. The last scene of the movie is not a long smooch between two lovebirds but a mother gently rocking her toddler. This is quite the underrated 80s comedy and I'm frankly surprised it doesn't come up in conversation more often. And for the most part, it holds up beautifully, even if the yuppie feel throughout the film makes it feel a bit old fashioned. Keaton can be a hit or miss actress, often letting her eccentricies overwhelm her performances, but she is perfect here. She has moments where she has her obligatory comic breakdown, but even then she feels grounded and not too over the top. This doesn't re-invent the wheel, but what it does it does beautifully. And sometimes it's a breath of fresh air, especially in these crazy times, to sit down with a movie that wants to do nothing more than make you smile. The supporting performances are fine, if not spectacular. Shepard is not the most exciting love interest in movie history, but I suppose a veterinarian from Vermont isn't supposed to razzle dazzle. This is basically all Keaton all the time. It's a great comic vehicle and very much family friendly, with enough sight gags and cute baby scenes to keep younger ones somewhat entertained.

Cliches. Stereotypes galore. In fact that's all that's here.

It was an enjoyable movie for the whole family. I agree with some of the other reviews that Diane Keaton was really bouncing the baby to aggressively early in film. It's worth the watch.

Light entertainment with dated stereotypes. This makes it perfect for white wine and buttered popcorn Sunday morning escapism. The day I rented I watched 2 times in a row , I required a heavy dose of get away from it all , lighthearted fantasy .

I like this movie for what it is, maybe it's because I like kids, but babies espically. Elizabeth is so cute in this movie, the diaper changing scene is funny for what it is, but could have been better in my opinion. Maybe if they had made her cry, while JC was wiping her, or at best while changing her at least, and then picking her up and hugging her / giving her a cuddle and a kiss, just to make the diaper changing more realstic and athuethinic. Maybe some scenes of JC soothing Elizabeth and sushing her while she was crying, even throw in JC signing a lullaby, but either way, I'd grade this film a soild A though not really an A+ in my opinion. I loved the scene of Charlotte trying to shush a crying Elizabeth, I thought that was cute.

This cheapens everyone in it. Shrill obnoxious and pointless Hallmark movie

This movie never gets old. It's charming, cosy and just a nice show to watch.

One of my all time favorites!

I appreciate what Baby Boom was trying to do, but the problem is that it just doesn't do it that well. It feels longer than it is, partially because it seems like two different films that were stitched together. And it's in the second half that Diane Keaton strays outside her acting range and her performance becomes melodramatic. There's also not as much humor in this comedy as I expected, and the love story didn't really work for me. If you're looking for a 1987 comedy about someone being out of their element when trying to take care of a baby, I'd recommend watching Three Men and a Baby instead.

This is a typical 80s comedy film about a lady who finds herself juggling her work and being a mother to a distant relatives child she hadn't known about before. Its so 80s it includes jazzy saxophone solo's played in brief scenes between dialogue on screen, so it does appear perhaps a bit dated now but then it is over 30 years old I suppose. It is amusing at times and I found it an easy and entertaining watch. The subject of mothers being demoted at work is sadly probably still an issue at times, although I like to think that society has moved on a bit in terms of such things in the 30 odd years since this was made, with one or two scenes of locals hitting on her seeming a little cheesy but that aside, I certainly enjoyed watching this film and found it an entertaining and enjoyable watch for the most part. I thought Diane Keaton did well in her role as the new found multi tasking mother, J.C. Wiatt. I would recommend this film. Also the thought that whoever the (or however many of the, I should probably say) baby/babies were in the film won't be much younger than me is a mildly sobering thought, as a young child of the 80s lol. Seriously though, the baby looks cute!.

For the 80s, Baby Boom was pushing boundaries for the roles of women. Today, it would be mocked that a woman cared for a child that she didn't prepare for or initially want. Predictable but enjoyable.

I mentioned this film to a few girlfriends my age and the magnitude it had for me as a kid, and my girlfriends were...Baby Boom??? This is a sad-happy comfort food film for me, one where my kid comes in and finds me in a pool of tears watching the screen and yells at me, "No more baby movies! All you do is cry!" like, all I do is watch baby movies (not true). Diane Keaton was who I wanted to be after seeing this one. I think when you're a young girl and you see Diane Keaton be very Keaton-like (stylish, funny, powerful, and neurotic) you just fall in love with the fantasy of your own potential womanhood. Throw a baby and a house in Vermont on top of that, no matter the obstacles, it's a dreamy movie. Being a mother who moved from the big city to a well water house myself, I can sniff out the romance of such things now (not sure you could harvest apples and/or cook living alone with a baby). Sam Shepard is swallowed up in this movie, and acts like a scared little boy in most scenes. He's a nice foil for Keaton's pent up sexual energy (he's an animal doctor, har har) especially when she flops around after a kiss like a rag doll.

Even with it's feminist ideas that it lacks, the struggle isn't here, as the film flows through itself. The concept is executed decently and the acting is also good! Decent flick!

You have seen it done much better one million times.

Love the feminism! Diane Keaton inspires.

I am neither a woman nor am I someone who works within the world of office buildings and expense reports. Still, the look at the specific issues of being a woman / mother working in the modern sector here seem both authentic and sadly timeless. While much of the movie is relatively forgettable, there's enough little pleasures (small-town life humor, learning to raise a daughter) and heartfelt feminism to make it worthwhile.

Charles Shyer should make a sequel to BABY BOOM with the original cast now 30+ years older, where a grown-up Elizabeth is living with her mother in Vermont with no job prospects after the recession, totally fed up with J.C.'s neoliberal bullshit. Early on in the film, J.C.'s male boss tells her that she'll "never have it all"---that family life and city life and corporate life are incompatible---and the movie somehow believes that it's a feminist message to, uh, agree entirely that a woman can't be successful in New York AND be a mother? That rather than be a partner in an enormous law firm, a mother is better suited to, uh, make gourmet baby food and live in a part of the country where she's stuck with only one viable sexual partner, who forces his tongue down her happily unresistant throat? Lower your expectations, ladies---not just for life in general, but for what to expect from this awful boomer nonsense.