Immediate Family

Starring:Glenn Close, James Woods, Mary Stuart Masterson, Kevin Dillon, Linda Darlow, Mimi Kennedy, Charles Levin, Alma Beltran, Jessica James, Ken Lerner, Jane Greer, Harrison Mohr, Matthew Moore, Kristen Sanderson, Merrilyn Gann, Wendy Van Riesen, Ashlee MacMillam, Nora Kletter, Alisha Bell, Tony Dakota
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Studio: Sony Pictures
Product Type: DVD

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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 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

Customer Reviews:

Great Movie.......2006-08-22

Loved this movie! It has some great humor and very tender moments with a great ending! You'll laugh, cry and be touched by these "real people".

Two Thumbs Up!.......2001-04-09

Immediate Family is about a wealthy couple who have every thing they ever dreamed except...a baby. After several failed attempts a getting pregnant the couple find an unmarried teen couple who are about to have a baby but know they cannot support it. This is a mixture of drama and suspense and a film that the whole family would enjoy. Rent it today!

Immediate Family.......2000-01-22

I believe this video portrays what a young mother goes through about the tough desicion of what she should do for her baby. I believe any one who watches this video will be touch.

Nice Film.......1999-08-01

This is an entertaining and touching film. It is at times very predictable, and the movie takes a condescending and stereotypical approach to teen birthmothers, but ultimately it is a good film, well worth seeing, and certainly entertaining.

I loved it from beginning to end.......1999-07-17

I really enjoyed this movie. Being a parent I can understand the longing to have a child and not being able to. Up until the time that I saw Immediate Family I had never seen Woods and Close in this type of role. They were great. I also loved the music. If you're sentimental like myself, pull out the hankie.

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Immediate Family [Region 2]
Starring: Glenn Close , James Woods , Mary Stuart Masterson , Kevin Dillon , and Linda Darlow
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00008YNHI

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Customer Reviews:

Great Movie.......2006-08-22

Loved this movie! It has some great humor and very tender moments with a great ending! You'll laugh, cry and be touched by these "real people".

Two Thumbs Up!.......2001-04-09

Immediate Family.......2000-01-22

I believe this video portrays what a young mother goes through about the tough desicion of what she should do for her baby. I believe any one who watches this video will be touch.

Nice Film.......1999-08-01

I loved it from beginning to end.......1999-07-17

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