Word: boyfriend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...woman named Justice (Janet Jackson) in the same setting who is doing her best to keep her options open and her hopes up. She's a hairdresser who finds psychological escape in the poetry she scribbles (actually it is Maya Angelou's work) while mourning the loss of a boyfriend gunned down in her presence in the movie's opening, and most arresting, sequence. Quite clearly, she also dreams of making a real escape from the hood...
Cara Clausen was 28 and single, working in an Iowa shipping factory, when she got pregnant three years ago. She had just broken up with her boyfriend Dan, a trucker, to start dating Scott Seefeldt -- so it was Scott's name she put on the birth certificate when Jessica was born. Two days later, Cara waived her parental rights and put the baby up for adoption...
...within days, it all began to unravel. Cara saw her ex-boyfriend Dan Schmidt at work and told him everything -- that the baby she had just given up for adoption had been his all along. She began having second thoughts. She went to a support-group meeting of Concerned United Birthparents and heard other mothers' stories of the sorrow they felt at giving up their babies. On March 6 Cara filed a motion to get her daughter back, and a week later Dan did as well. Cara went out shopping for baby clothes...
...uplift." The basketball star, after a stormy date with the Arnetts' teenage daughter, suddenly draws a gun and points it at his own head. "I blew it," he cries, then wearily puts the pistol down. (No easy violence here.) The troubled single mother, after being abused by her ex- boyfriend, is so depressed that she can't face a job interview. "You can do anything you want to do," her father urges. "No, I can't," she replies. (No easy pep-talk solutions here.) Yet when she arrives stoned at a family gathering, her relatives overcome their dismay and rally...
Helman also looks back on football games as prime social events. "Football games were much more exciting in those days. Harvard was a football power then," she says. "If you had a boyfriend, he bought you a big, yellow chrysanthemum and a banner and you marched down in high heels...