Baby Boom, starring Diane Keaton, and Three Men and a Baby, starring Tom Selleck, Steve

Guttenberg, and Ted Danson, are the two films I've chosen to evaluate. Both films were

released in 1987, and while having a similar subject matter, reviewers and audiences reacted to

them in completely different ways. Both films have the same fundamental plot: a career or

party-oriented individual "inherits" or is abandoned by a previous lover with a newborn girl. They

don't want her at first and are unsure what to do with her, but they quickly fall in love with her

and change their lifestyles to accommodate their new daughter. The basic narrative of the movie

may be this generalization, but when the specifics are revealed, they go drastically different

courses.

The primary character's sex is the first important difference (s). Diane Keaton plays JC Wyatt, a

management consultant who lives in New York City with her 'partner' and works incessantly in

Baby Boom. She only goes out with clients and has sex on rare occasions. He asks her if she

wants to make love in one of the first sequences of the film, they display the clock, and barely

two minutes have elapsed before they are finished. When she receives this child from distant

cousins, she is unsure what to do because she does not match the position of mother and has

never done so. It is not a part of her daily routine. This is where her societal issue of role conflict

comes into play. Her lone identification is as a single lady working at a job.

When a person has two or more statuses at the same time, conflicting role obligations are

imposed on them. JC is a working professional, and being a mother does not come easy or

without hardship for her. This is a very realistic issue; in fact, millions of working moms and

single working mothers throughout the country are in the same boat. They must work to support

themselves and their kid, but the burden of being both a working woman and a mother may be

overwhelming.

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