Description: Henry Jaglom, the acclaimed director of Last Summer in the Hamptons and Eating, tackles a pertinent issue facing all woman today - how does a women balance her desire to have a baby with all the complex challenges women now face? Babyfever follows the story of Gena (Victoria Foyt) as she debates between her current safe but secure boyfriend (Matt Salinger), and a dynamic ex-flame (Eric Roberts) who suddenly reappears with an interesting proposition. Thinking she may be pregnant, Gena attends a co-worker’s baby shower where a diverse group of young woman share their feelings about the complications of having a baby in the 90’s.
Amazon.com: Director Henry Jaglom has used his familiar cinéma verité formula more effectively in the past, particularly with Eating. This time Jaglom's real-life wife and cowriter, Victoria Foyt, frets over a pregnancy with a man she is not sure she loves. The setting is a baby shower in Malibu, where a roomful of women shares angst over their biological clocks and the terrors and delights of mommyhood. Jaglom has much to say, but his trademark humor is less apparent than usual and Foyt's performance borders on the shrill. The subplot, involving Zack Norman as an executive desperately trying to raise money, is superfluous. This fictionalized documentary is one of Jaglom's more indulgent efforts, but a Jaglom production is always worth the effort, even when he is not in top form. --Rochelle O'Gorman
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Rating: - Walky Talky
Like all of Henry Jaglom's films, this one is nearly all dialogue. What action exists is rather stilted. Some of the same character actors who've appeared in films from the 70s and 80s appear. This is an entertaining film about 30 something women who develop baby fever. Having been there, done that, I can testify to its acute accuracy.
Rating: - Fever Baby!
Gena is an average woman who is torn between her current boyfriend's desire to marry her and start a family, and the unexpected arrival of an old boyfriend wanting to pick up where they left off. To further complicate matters, she might be pregnant herself. In the mist of this unsettled personal life, Gena leaves her two men to attend a baby shower party for a girl friend and talks with the various female attendees all of whom are facing their own ticking biological clocks. Written by Anonymous
Rating: - One of the TOP 10 Women's Movies of ALL TIME!
Like all of Henry Jaglom films, Babyfever will only appeal to the top 20% of the world's population that are intelligent enough to understand and appreciate the genius of Henry Jaglom's films and who actually bother to honestly think about where their lives have been, presently are, seem to be going, and why. This film is a MUST SEE for all who've had children and who still can have children or who plan to have families through alternative means. There has never been a film before or since that maps out the treacherous territory of contemporary motherhood. Those who love this movie should also be sure to read Anne Crittenden's "The Price of Motherhood" for further discussion and exploration of these issues. This film is one of my favorite films of ALL TIME!
Rating: - what baby food is to food, this is to good Jaglom
Having recently discovered Jaglom's films, particularly Eating, and Last Summer in the Hamptons which featured the charming Melanie Mayron look-alike Victoria Foyt (and Jaglom's wife), I was curious about this title. However the extreme reactions of the existing reviews gave me caution. The format is similar to Eating, where straight to camera interviews are intercut with a narrative. Jaglom's strength is in presenting cinema verite conversations between actors, but since he takes nearly an hour to begin the baby shower that the cast assemble for, we have to endure Foyt with Matt Salinger. These scenes feel improvised to the miniscule degree and Foyt overplays her discomfort, especially when she barks to release tension. Her energy in general here seems lower than it was in Hamptons, and soon her anguish over Salinger and whether or not she is pregant to him becomes tiresome. There is an unnecessary diversion with ... Read More
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