Film Analysis: Baby Boom

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In the film Baby Boom, Diane Keaton plays a workaholic named J.C Wiatt. She works almost 80 hours a week and has none to little social life. After receiving some news in an awkward telephone call from the U.K. She is bestowed upon her, her greatest challenge in life. She was given custody of Elizabeth Wiatt after been informed of her cousin’s passing. J.C has never had any experience with children. She even admits that she doesn’t do well with living things. J.C goes from being the ‘Tiger Lady’ that put fear into everyone, to the country side mother who is very fearful. J.C was forced to choose between motherhood or her job. The attachment theory is shown between Elizabeth and J.C. 'Attachment is an emotional bond between two people in which …show more content…

Slowly but surely her job as a mother was beginning to consume everything else in J.C’s life. Her partner left her because of he did not want a child. J.C left her job because she felt that they were taking things away from her after choosing to raise Elizabeth. After leaving her job she bought a house in Vermont. And started up a business after having a nervous breakdown. Her business was making homemade baby food. She was offered a deal with her old job back in New York. She turned down the deal and heads back to Vermont, where she is having a wonderful life. She is her own boss and can spend every hour with Elizabeth. J.C. Wiatt is the epitome of a workaholic. After losing her love of one job she quickly finds another, Motherhood. J.C Wiatt was given a little girl by the name of Elizabeth. And lost everything she thought she needed. Elizabeth and J.C. have grown attached to one another even though at first it seemed impossible for J.C. “To be a successful parent means a lot of very hard work. Looking after a baby or toddler twenty-four-hour-a-day job seven days a week, and often a worrying one at that.” (Bowlby, 1988 pg.

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