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BY NAOMI & HERB*
Rappahannock News
Contributing Writers
Spring has arrived in I1' Rappahannock County, ;; with all its glory and beau'r_ ty. Naomi and Herb are adjourning to the garden for the planting season. We _ will resume this column in June or July, when it gets too hot and icky to work 3 outside, and we resume watching a bunch of movies. But meantime, we did see and discuss these videos.
• The Baby Dance, 1998, 91 minutes. Laura Dem is completely convinc, ing as the pregnant, uneducated trailer park mom in , this story of poverty and privilege. < A wealthy couple, unable to have a baby, place , an ad for adoption that is answered by Dem, already the mother of four children she and her unemployed, beer-swilling husband can’t support.
Stockard Channing, as the adoptive mother, immerses herself in the , couple’s world, despite her disgust and disapproval of i their lifestyle in general, and the baby’s prenatal ,r care, in particular. (The > pregnant mother smokes, drink caffeinated coffee, occasionally drinks, and misses her doctors appointments). The adoptive couple hang all their hopes for the coming baby girl on the poor couple’s 12-year old daughter, who is tall, athletic and lovely.
The arrival of the baby, however, brings a new set of problems for both couples, changing their lives forever. The utterly compelling closing scene of the film will leave you shocked and saddened, but provokes thoughtful introspection, as ’ well. (Herb noted that the last scene would be really »; incredible on the big ‘ screen.)
• Bowfinger: This 1999 !.* film (1 hour 37 minutes) * stars Eddie Murphy (who just seems to be playing himself) and Steve Martin f as a down- and-out movie l director who can’t seem to ; find a good gig. When he happens upon a shootable » script, he can’t afford to hire a big-name actor, and decides to film without hir^ ing one. ; He creates the movie around Murphy, whom he films long- distance, with an occasional face-to-face scene with one of his actors.
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