Tuesday, April 12, 2005

David Ansen

“J. C. Wiatt…, Harvard M.B.A., is the very model of a modern major Yuppie. Called "the tiger lady"…, she's a ferociously competitive management consultant avidly climbing the New York corporate ladder. What would happen, asks Baby Boom, if this compulsive careerist suddenly found herself entrusted with the care of an infant?….

“…. It's a cute, often clever, deliberately conventional comedy, gift-wrapped so that no disturbing ambiguities spill out. From first to last, it's Keaton's movie, and she makes a delightful return to comic form. Her mounting frustrations reach a hilarious peak in Vermont when, confronted with frozen pipes, country bumpkins and an unsought celibacy, she throws a titanic hissy that will gladden the hearts of aggrieved city slickers everywhere….”

David Ansen
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