Word: career
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...QUESTION for women of career vs. family has been hashed and rehashed enough to deforest the entire Pacific Northwest. Now Hollywood has thrown in its two cents with Baby Boom, ostensibly a social satire that turns serious every once in a while in order to shed some light on this question. Unfortunately, Baby Boom is neither illuminating nor terribly funny...
Baby Boom has a made-for-TV premise: J.C. Wiatt (Diane Keaton), a totally career-minded yuppie executive, finds herself saddled with an unwanted baby, hence the title (Get it? Yuppies, babies . . .). Baby Elizabeth literally drops into J.C.'s lap without the messy inconveniences of pregnancy or the question of abortion; she inherits the child from a long-lost relative...
...faces the Big Test: can she raise a child and have a career at the same time, without a man in her life? Can she keep up with clients and ambitious underlings and still have time to find a trustworthy nanny and to work on getting her child into the "right" preschool? As it often does, Baby Boom offers a pat and unsurprising answer--"Nope...
Polly (Sheila McCarthy) is a self-described "unsuccessful career woman" who works part-time as a girl Friday for a temp agency. Her lack of success is really a lack of motivation. She would much rather ride her bike around Toronto taking pictures...
Always interested in athletics as a child, Ersek began playing field hockey and lacrosse as a freshman in high school and maintained her enthusiasm for the two sports throughout her collegiate career. She is also a captain of the 1987-'88 women's lacrosse team...