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FILM · 1987 · USA

Baby Boom

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26 Interesting Facts About Baby Boom

Interesting Facts (21)

  1. #001

    While they were in college, Kristina and Michelle Kennedy learned that Diane Keaton was doing a book signing in Southampton, New York. They came and placed a photograph for Keaton to sign while she was signing. Keaton remarked that she had been thinking about the twins the day the photo was taken. When she went to sign it, she looked at the sisters, turned back to the photo and realized who they were. Keaton then stood up and hugged them both. The sisters later became teachers.

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  2. #002

    Producer Nancy Meyers once said of casting Sam Shepard in this film: "From the beginning we were told to forget about getting Sam to play a character who doesn't come into the movie until the third act. But we sent the script to a True Value hardware store in Virginia, and two days later he said he'd do it."

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  3. #003

    J. C. Wiatt (Diane Keaton) worked at Sloane, Curtis & Co. Management Consultants. Sloane Curtis Advertising appeared in What Women Want (2000), directed by Nancy Meyers, the writer of Baby Boom.

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  4. #004

    For the scenes set in Vermont, the crew tried to find a town that looked like a Norman Rockwell painting. They found it in the town of Peru, Vermont.

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  5. #005

    Apart from voice work, this was the first time Harold Ramis worked on a film solely as an actor, without writing and/or directing (he would rarely do so afterward, for example in "Knocked Up" (2007)).

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  6. #006

    It is one of a series of collaborations by the then-married team of Charles Shyer and Nancy Meyers.

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  7. #007

    In the opening montage, Diane Keaton enters her office building, the Seagram Building, one of New York's most prestigious and architecturally distinguished buildings. As the narrator notes, it is not on 58th Street but on Park Avenue between East 52nd and 53rd Streets. The Seagram Building also appears in the opening of That Girl (1966) and is used in the series.

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  8. #008

    The dance hall scenes were shot at the Grange Hall in Manchester, Vermont. Hapgood's store was shot in Peru, Vermont.

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  9. #009

    Baby Elizabeth Wiatt was actually played by two 17-month-old twins: Michelle Kennedy and Kristina Kennedy. They later reprised their child roles in Baby Boom (1988).

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  10. #010

    The success of the baby food company ("Country Baby") is shown in two montages (a range of food products, national sales, catalogue sales). In real life such success takes several years, but in the film J. C. Wiatt achieves it in a few months (from winter to spring) and the baby has not aged.

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  11. #011

    Actor Sam Wanamaker reprised the role of Fritz Curtis in the subsequent Baby Boom (1988) TV sitcom.

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  12. #012

    Kim Basinger was offered the role of J. C. but turned it down.

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  13. #013

    The film spawned the short-lived thirteen-episode series Baby Boom (1988), which aired in 1988 and 1989.

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  14. #014

    Shot at the height of the Preppie/Sloane Ranger era, the film pokes fun at the life J. C. left behind, especially when New York couples invade the "cute" market on weekend visits.

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  15. #015

    J. C. Wiatt's (Diane Keaton) first and middle names are never revealed. According to newspaper articles, her name is Courtney.

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  16. #016

    According to the American Film Institute: "To film Elizabeth sleeping, crew members had to black out the set until the baby fell asleep, at which point the lights would slowly be raised and the camera would start rolling."

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  17. #017

    One of the "baby pictures" from the late-1980s Hollywood cycle. These films include Baby Boom (1987), For Keeps? (1988), Immediate Family (1989), Three Men and a Baby (1987) (itself 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), which was followed in the early part of the next decade by Look Who's Talking Too (1990).

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  18. #018

    The scenes set in Diane Keaton's character's apartment were shot on Stage 10 at the 20th Century Fox studios.

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  19. #019

    United Artists chief Anthony Thomopoulos once said that the results of surveys taken in cinemas about this picture showed it appealed to an older audience than the 25+ age group.

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  20. #020

    The film was dedicated to Annie, the daughter of one of the screenwriters.

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  21. #021

    Although passengers being greeted at the gate as they disembark a plane may seem unbelievable to modern viewers, it was normal to do so at the time this film was made, since airport security procedures were less strict then.

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Behind the Scenes (1)

  1. #022

    Nancy Meyers, the film's writer and producer, became pregnant with her second child during the main photography of this picture.

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Characters & Cast (2)

  1. #023

    The end credits of the film read: the little girl sitting in the vet's office at the end (with her dog) is "For Annie,". This is actually director Charles Shyer's daughter, Annie Meyers-Shyer. In Disney's 1998 version of The Parent Trap (1998), directed by Charles Shyer's wife Nancy Meyers, the twins played by Lindsay Lohan were named after the real Annie Meyers-Shyer and her sister Hallie Meyers-Shyer. However, at the end of this film the credits instead list "For Hallie".

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  2. #024

    One of two baby films from the mid-1980s in which the roles were reversed, each top-billed by a star whose surname was, most recently, "Keaton": Diane Keaton starred in Baby Boom (1987), while Michael Keaton had taken the lead in Mr. Mom (1983) about three years earlier. Despite sharing the surname of silent-film comedian Buster Keaton, the two actor-comedians [as of September 2013] have never collaborated or starred together in a film production.

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Easter Eggs & References (1)

  1. #025

    (At about 3 minutes in) J. C. mentions an unseen character named Sheldrake. This is probably a nod to Billy Wilder, who gave characters that name in three films he directed and co-wrote: Sunset Boulevard (1950), The Apartment (1960) and Kiss Me, Stupid (1964).

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Deeper Meaning (1)

  1. #026

    Writer-producer Nancy Meyers once said of this film: "Our film is about someone who never planned on motherhood. The comedy comes from J. C.'s ineptitude at handling this surprise. Ten years ago [c. 1977], Baby Boom (1987) probably would have been about a man, because until recently, with the great female drive toward career and success, would it have been believable that a woman could be so unprepared for motherhood? Motherhood."

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