Product Details

• Actors: Victoria Foyt, Matt Salinger, Frances Fisher, Eric Roberts, Dinah Lenney
• Directors: Victoria Foyt, Henry Jaglom
• Writers: Victoria Foyt, Henry Jaglom
• Producers: Bonnie Beauregard, Judith Wolinsky
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Fox Lorber
• VHS Release Date: October 13, 1997
• Run Time: 109 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304040210
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #446,127 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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Director Henry Jaglom has used his familiar cinéma verité formula more effectively in the past, particularly with Eating. This time Jaglom's real-life wife and cowriter, Victoria Foyt, frets over a pregnancy with a man she is not sure she loves. The setting is a baby shower in Malibu, where a roomful of women shares angst over their biological clocks and the terrors and delights of mommyhood. Jaglom has much to say, but his trademark humor is less apparent than usual and Foyt's performance borders on the shrill. The subplot, involving Zack Norman as an executive desperately trying to raise money, is superfluous. This fictionalized documentary is one of Jaglom's more indulgent efforts, but a Jaglom production is always worth the effort, even when he is not in top form. --Rochelle O'Gorman

Product Description

Henry Jaglom, the acclaimed director of Last Summer in the Hamptons and Eating, tackles a pertinent issue facing all woman today - how does a women balance her desire to have a baby with all the complex challenges women now face? Babyfever follows the story of Gena (Victoria Foyt) as she debates between her current safe but secure boyfriend (Matt Salinger), and a dynamic ex-flame (Eric Roberts) who suddenly reappears with an interesting proposition. Thinking she may be pregnant, Gena attends a co-worker’s baby shower where a diverse group of young woman share their feelings about the complications of having a baby in the 90’s.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars what baby food is to food, this is to good Jaglom, December 17, 2000

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Peter Shelley "petershelley" (Sydney, New South Wales Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Babyfever [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Having recently discovered Jaglom's films, particularly Eating, and Last Summer in the Hamptons which featured the charming Melanie Mayron look-alike Victoria Foyt (and Jaglom's wife), I was curious about this title. However the extreme reactions of the existing reviews gave me caution. The format is similar to Eating, where straight to camera interviews are intercut with a narrative. Jaglom's strength is in presenting cinema verite conversations between actors, but since he takes nearly an hour to begin the baby shower that the cast assemble for, we have to endure Foyt with Matt Salinger. These scenes feel improvised to the miniscule degree and Foyt overplays her discomfort, especially when she barks to release tension. Her energy in general here seems lower than it was in Hamptons, and soon her anguish over Salinger and whether or not she is pregant to him becomes tiresome. There is an unnecessary diversion with Zack Norman as the husband of the shower hostess, Norman being the least talented of the Jaglom/Emil/Norman triumvirate. Thankfully Eric Roberts turns up for one scene (odd casting even for Jaglom) as a past suitor and brings some edge. However things pick up for the shower when the film populates. Jaglom amusingly shows us a wall of cascading water to coincide with the confirmed pregnant women, though surprisingly the one with a born child is removed quickly. Foyt is better when she has scenes with the deep-voiced Dinah Henney, and scores a laugh when the aforementioned baby reacts badly to her. I liked Henney's line referring to Salinger, that you can't marry someone who deals in golf metaphors. The range of opinions expressed to camera covers alternative views, including career women with no interest in childbirth, a lesbian couple, women married to men who don't want children, those infertile, and those who believe motherhood has deprived them of careers. We also get a female doctor on hand, who herself looks pregnant, to deliver technical advice which bogs down proceedings. Perhaps the confessions have less depth and reveal less pain than the shameful feelings on display in Eating, but I guess this topic is less prone to such negative emotions. Unlike the end of Eating where Jaglom identified each actor by face and name, there are some quirky touches that I am unable to attach to an actor, though perhaps not being able to identify the singer who delivers some bum notes in her performance is a blessing.

1.0 out of 5 stars One of the WORST movies I've ever seen, September 24, 2011

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scott speer (Reno, NV United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Baby Fever (Amazon Instant Video)

My wife and I rented this and both of us hated this movie. Hate isn't even a strong enough word! We despise this movie, we abhor this movie. It HAS to be one of the WORST films I've ever seen in my life. It's like a bad high school production of a bad movie. The acting's bad, the script's poor, the cinematography stinks, and there's NO background music/film score except for a few cheesy montages. I wouldn't watch this again if I was paid for my time.

4.0 out of 5 stars Walky Talky, July 8, 2008

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Bradley F. Smith (Miami Beach, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Babyfever (DVD)

Like all of Henry Jaglom's films, this one is nearly all dialogue. What action exists is rather stilted. Some of the same character actors who've appeared in films from the 70s and 80s appear. This is an entertaining film about 30 something women who develop baby fever. Having been there, done that, I can testify to its acute accuracy.