Immediate Family
(1989)
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Michael (James Woods) and Linda (Glenn Close) Spector are a mature, successful couple who have everything it takes to be parents--except a baby. Enter Lucy (Mary Stuart Masterson) and Sam (Kevin Dillon), a teenage couple who have a baby on the way, but aren't ready to be parents. As Michael and Linda await the birth of Lucy's child so that they can adopt it, they become unexpectedly parental toward Lucy and Michael, making the experience even more enriching--and complicated--than they expected. |
An absorbing if schematic family drama, distinguished by an impressive cast. Glenn Close and James Woods play a wealthy childless couple who decide to adopt Mary Stuart Masterson's baby. But Masterson suddenly changes her mind, preferring to bring up the baby in near poverty with her boyfriend, Kevin Dillon. The script by Barbara Benedek pushes all the expected buttons; Jonathan Kaplan, who made The Accused and Love Field, directs; and there's a small role for Jane Greer, femme fatale of films noirs long ago.