The Baby Dance

The Baby Dance
The Baby Dance
Directed by	Jane Anderson
Written by	Jane Anderson
Based on	The Baby Dance; by Jane Anderson
Produced by	Jodie Foster; Vicky Herman; Meg LeFauve
Starring	Stockard Channing; Laura Dern
Cinematography	Jan Kiesser
Edited by	Norman Buckley
Music by	Terry Allen
Release date	August 23, 1998;
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Baby Dance is a 1998 drama film produced by Showtime about adoption. It was written and directed by Jane Anderson, based on her play of the same name, with Stockard Channing and Laura Dern starring in the lead roles.

Plot

Wanda LeFauve is a poor mother of four with an unemployed husband living in a trailer outside Shreveport, Louisiana. Pregnant again, she finds a newspaper ad placed by a couple hoping to adopt a newborn. Summoning up her courage, Wanda makes the telephone call. The couple — Rachel and Richard Luckman — are wealthy, Jewish urbanites from Los Angeles. They skirt logistics, legal matters, fears and prejudices prior to the child's birth.^[1]

Cast

Stockard Channing as Rachel Luckman
Laura Dern as Wanda LeFauve
Peter Riegert as Richard Luckman
Richard Lineback as Al LeFauve
Sandra Seacat as Doreen

Awards

The film was nominated for the Golden Globe Awards for Best Miniseries or Television Film and Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for both Dern and Channing.^[2]

At the Primetime Emmy Awards, the film was nominated for Outstanding Television Movie, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for Stockard Channing and directing and writing for Jane Anderson.^[3]

The film received the prestigious Peabody Award.^[4] Channing was also nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female^[5] and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie.^[6]

References

^ Klady, Leonard (August 21, 1998). "Review: 'The Baby Dance'". Variety. Retrieved May 11, 2017.
^ "Winners & Nominees 1999". Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Retrieved May 11, 2017.
^ "List of major 1999 Emmy nominations". CNN. July 22, 1999. Retrieved May 11, 2017.
^ "The Baby Dance". The Peabody Awards. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
^ "The Baby Dance | Awards". AllMovie. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
^ "The 5th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards | Screen Actors Guild Awards". www.sagawards.org. Retrieved 2022-11-24.

External links

The Baby Dance at IMDb

[1] Klady, Leonard (August 21, 1998). "Review: 'The Baby Dance'". Variety. Retrieved May 11, 2017.

[2] "Winners & Nominees 1999". Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Retrieved May 11, 2017.

[3] "List of major 1999 Emmy nominations". CNN. July 22, 1999. Retrieved May 11, 2017.

[4] "The Baby Dance". The Peabody Awards. Retrieved 2022-11-24.

[5] "The Baby Dance | Awards". AllMovie. Retrieved 2022-11-24.

[6] "The 5th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards | Screen Actors Guild Awards". www.sagawards.org. Retrieved 2022-11-24.

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v t e Works by Jane Anderson
Directed	The Baby Dance (1998) If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000) When Billie Beat Bobby (2001) Normal (2003) The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005)
Written only	The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (1993) It Could Happen to You (1994) How to Make an American Quilt (1995) Olive Kitteridge (2014) Packed in a Trunk: The Lost Art of Edith Lake Wilkinson (2015) The Wife (2017)