- Actors: Laura Dern, Stockard Channing, Peter Riegert, Richard Lineback, Sandra Seacat
- Directors: Jane Anderson
- Writers: Jane Anderson
- Producers: Jodie Foster, Lisa Towers, Matthew O'Connor, Meg LeFauve, Robert Halmi Jr.
- Format: NTSC, Import
- Number of tapes: 1
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- Studio: Showtime Ent.
- VHS Release Date: Jan 4 2000
- Run Time: 95 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- ASIN: B00002AFX2
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The tension is so palpable in The Baby Dance, it feels more like a stage play than an adaptation of one. Laura Dern, gifted at playing white-trash roles (Citizen Ruth), is Wanda, a dirt-poor Louisiana mother pregnant with her fifth child who answers a wealthy couple's "baby wanted" ad. Stockard Channing is Rachel, the would-be adoptive mother who quietly clashes with Dern at every turn. The dance these two women do, along with their husbands, during the weeks before the baby's birth is fraught with friction. Both wear their desperation on their sleeves--one driven by poverty to sell her baby, the other by infertility to basically buy it. An unexpected soap opera-like twist threatens to undo the baby deal, setting up a sad, achy ending that fits right in with the movie's final song, a mournful country twang. --Valerie J. Nelson
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Moving, intelligent and complex,
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Tremendously moving, and ultimately very complex story of two couples - a rich Californiacouple planning to adopt a baby on birth from a poor Southern couple. While the characters verge on cliché at first, and the set up feel a bit `neat', the writing and acting (Laura Dern in particular) is so good that it's the rare film that transcends it's own stereotypes to find something deeper and richer underneath. There are moments that feel a bit schematic and obvious early on, but by the devastating ending that almost seems not to matter.
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4.2 out of 5 stars (9 customer reviews) 9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Baby Danced- I cried,
By Teresa - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Baby Dance (VHS Tape)
Looking for more than a chick flick, or an action movie? This is what you are looking for. Admitidly, more for the females in the audiance but able to be enjoyed by both genders. This is an adult movie however, not for sexual inuindo, or for bad language, but more for adult concepts and ideas. However, I am only 16. I loved this movie, not only for the great acting of Stockard Channing (Rizo) but for the message it caries. To sum the movie up, a rich couple can't get pregnant so they place an add in the newspaper. A pregnant lady from Louisiana responds, she and her husband can't afford to keep their child. So the rich couple -adopts- her unborn child and her family untill she has the baby. The baby is born, but... -I won't ruin it for you- You laugh, you cry, and you get the rare oppurtunity to watch a movie that doesn't include a cliche plot. Enjoy it!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Baby Dance,
By Patricia A. Bullis - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Baby Dance (VHS Tape)
Just a wonderful movie that you can get so emotionally involved in that you forget it is only a movie. Acting by the 4 primary actors is superb. They make you feel just what each character is trying to portray. Definitly a 4 hankie movie. Pretty sure the movie will appeal more for women than men, but, if you're a "feeling-emotional" type of guy, you're going to love it.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A great movie,
By makedah - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Baby Dance (VHS Tape)
I just saw this movie on Lifetime, and it was wonderful. I teach, and if I ever teach a women's studies class, this will definitely be must-see for my students. It deals with gender and class issues in a very sophisticated and entertaining way. An original and provocative movie.
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