I love Laura Dern! I think she is the actress of her generation. She
is superb in everything I see her in. She plays every part so real, so
convincing. I also like Stockard Channing very much. I felt this story
was extremely sad and really made you think about the different
social classes in our society. Here we see a very poor family living
in a trailer park. They have no money and 4 children they can
barely afford. Their phone gets shut off and their car doesn't work.
The wife becomes pregnant again and they just cannot take on
another baby. Then you have a wealthy urban couple who are
unable to have a child and had tried for years. This seems like the
perfect solution for both couples. They make a financial
arrangement and agree upon the conditions of the adoption. The
more attached Stockards charactor comes to the unborn child the
more critical she becomes of Laura Derns charactor who smokes
and drinks coffee. She and her husband start to feel like the goose
who laid the golden egg. As Laura Derns charactor comes closer
and closer to the end of the pregnancy they keep asking for more
money and eventually tell them that now they want a car too! It gets
to the point where Stockard Channing and her husband want to
just walk away from the whole deal as they feel like suckers but
they have just way too much invested in this so they stick it out.
When the baby is born there were problems with the delivery and
the baby lost oxygen which may or may not had resulted in mental
retardation. Upon hearing this they are devastated and while
Stockard Channing still wants the baby, her husband convinces
her that this is not what they set out for and they leave empty
handed.
I agree with some of the other comments. The ending is obscene.
This couple couldn't have a child for years and years. They finally
have a baby and decide that they don't want it because of all the
problems it will have. It's a moral dilemma, but throughout the film
it seem that Stockard and her husband were the victims being
used by this poor family set out to use their baby to bribe them for
as much money as possible, but in the end you see then walk
away from the baby they've always dreamed of because of
potential problems. What kind of parents would they have made?
Really.
is superb in everything I see her in. She plays every part so real, so
convincing. I also like Stockard Channing very much. I felt this story
was extremely sad and really made you think about the different
social classes in our society. Here we see a very poor family living
in a trailer park. They have no money and 4 children they can
barely afford. Their phone gets shut off and their car doesn't work.
The wife becomes pregnant again and they just cannot take on
another baby. Then you have a wealthy urban couple who are
unable to have a child and had tried for years. This seems like the
perfect solution for both couples. They make a financial
arrangement and agree upon the conditions of the adoption. The
more attached Stockards charactor comes to the unborn child the
more critical she becomes of Laura Derns charactor who smokes
and drinks coffee. She and her husband start to feel like the goose
who laid the golden egg. As Laura Derns charactor comes closer
and closer to the end of the pregnancy they keep asking for more
money and eventually tell them that now they want a car too! It gets
to the point where Stockard Channing and her husband want to
just walk away from the whole deal as they feel like suckers but
they have just way too much invested in this so they stick it out.
When the baby is born there were problems with the delivery and
the baby lost oxygen which may or may not had resulted in mental
retardation. Upon hearing this they are devastated and while
Stockard Channing still wants the baby, her husband convinces
her that this is not what they set out for and they leave empty
handed.
I agree with some of the other comments. The ending is obscene.
This couple couldn't have a child for years and years. They finally
have a baby and decide that they don't want it because of all the
problems it will have. It's a moral dilemma, but throughout the film
it seem that Stockard and her husband were the victims being
used by this poor family set out to use their baby to bribe them for
as much money as possible, but in the end you see then walk
away from the baby they've always dreamed of because of
potential problems. What kind of parents would they have made?
Really.