Alma Beltran, Charles Levin, Glenn Close

Few subjects for film are as fat with moral and emotional complexity as human infertility, and the 1989 Immediate Family is an interesting, serio-comic example. Glenn Close and James Woods star...( read more  read more... ) as the Spectors, an aging, professional couple who can't conceive on their own. After meeting an unmarried and pregnant 17-year-old girl named Lucy (Mary Stuart Masterson), the Spectors decide to care for her until she hands over her baby to them for adoption. Everything goes according to plan until Lucy and her boyfriend (Kevin Dillon) make the bold decision that they don't want to part with their child, leaving the Spectors twisting in the wind until collective love and wisdom find a way out of this predicament. Directed by Jonathan Kaplan (The Accused), Immediate Family has an honest appeal and attractive performances, but is also noteworthy for its counterintuitive casting of a fiery Woods as a bland, conventional lead. --Tom Keogh

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PG-13, 100 min.

Directed by: Jonathan Kaplan

Release Date: October 27, 1989

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DVD Release Date: April 22, 2003

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  • January 10, 2007
    great movie and great movie soundrack.
  • October 19, 2009
    omg i freakin love this movie
  • March 31, 2009
    I felt as if I was in the movie myself. Lucy seemed fine with a few doubts but her bf worried me. Young couples having children are just not ready and it seems they always change their minds and the adopted parents get hurt the worst when they change their minds. Sometimes it's t...( read more)he money but usually it's after the birth. Had me in tears. Great acting by all.
  • June 13, 2008
    Not a great movie and the acting isn't very good but it does keep you sitting long enough to see what happens.
  • June 10, 2008
    love this movie, the red hair baby is so cute!
  • May 28, 2008
    one of my favs a must see
  • May 31, 2007
    If it's the movie I think it is, it's pretty movie-of-the-week, after-school-specialish, but it was still pretty watchable.
  • September 28, 2006
    This looks really crap.

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