The topic of Open Adoption (that's where the adoptive parents meet the biological mother during pregnancy, and each side gets to approve the other), considered from as many angles as possible in one single case, or anyhow from as many angles as necessary when all parties are as honorable and decent as in this one. It is all a little predictable, a little pat, a little superficial, a little facile, and not a little enjoyable -- a lot. The entire effort is studded with the I.D. marks of that endangered species, The Movie Like They Used To Make. A movie like, in specific, Penny Serenade and Close to My Heart. It is no small thing for James Woods to be able to put himself across as so warmly human, and hardly any smaller a thing for Glenn Close; and they, together with Mary Stuart Masterson and Kevin Dillon, make the most of the potentially awkward situations without attempting to make more of them. The director, Jonathan Kaplan, has shown that he can be deft (Over the Edge, Project X) and shown that he can be clumsy (The Accused), but he has never shown he can be defter than this. As a piece of moviemaking distinct from one of sociology, as a delicate operation of touch and timing, angle and agility, it is mostly a beautiful job, and never worse than a merely cute one. (1989) — Duncan Shepherd
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