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Buy This Item Baby Dance by Showtime Ent.  Available from Amazon  $9.98  on 11-29-2008     The tension is so palpable in <I>The Baby Dance</I>, it feels more like a stage play than an adaptation of one. Laura Dern, gifted at playing white-trash roles (<I>Citizen Ruth</I>), is Wanda, a dirt-poor Louisiana mother pregnant with her fifth child who answers a wealthy couple's "baby wanted" ad. Stockard Channing is Rachel, the would-be adoptive mother who quietly clashes with Dern at every turn. The dance these two women do, along with their husbands, during the weeks before the baby's birth is fraught with friction. Both wear their desperation on their sleeves--one driven by poverty to sell her baby, the other by infertility to basically buy it. An unexpected soap opera-like twist threatens to undo the baby deal, setting up a sad, achy ending that fits right in with the movie's final song, a mournful country twang. <I>--Valerie J. Nelson</I> Reader Reviews This is a beautifully-done movie about a heartbreaking situation with no easy answers. I won't spoil it for you, but this is a movie which challenges every viewer to ask themselves, "what would I do, given the same situation?" The final scene is absolutely haunting and will stay with me for a long time. You are left with this instinctive reaction to judge the characters for their choices -- both sides, all sides -- until you stop to think, "what if it were me? What would I do?" Personally, I don't know what I would do if I were any one of those individuals. There's no 'good guy' or 'bad guy' in this one. Everyone is struggling with some life-changing choices, and my guess is that none of them will ever be the same afterwards. Loved this movie. I can't believe it never received the press it deserved.

Baby Dance Available from Amazon Price: $9.98 Updated on 11-29-2008.

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