Babycakes

TV Movie
1989
1h 40m

IMDb RATING

6.7/10

988

YOUR RATING

Comedy Drama Romance

Grace, an overweight girl, spends her Christmas trying to start up a romance with a guy who controls the subway she boards for work each day.Grace, an overweight girl, spends her Christmas trying to start up a romance with a guy who controls the subway she boards for work each day.Grace, an overweight girl, spends her Christmas trying to start up a romance with a guy who controls the subway she boards for work each day.

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IMDb RATING

6.7/10

988

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Quotes
Rob: Work went so fast today.
Grace: That's because you had something to think about.
Rob: Yea, something nice. Christmas Eve and you.

Connections
References The Crawling Eye (1958)

Soundtracks
Big Girls Don't Cry
Written by Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio
Performed by Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons

User reviews30

Featured review

OK, but see the original

Babycakes is a sweet film, but not nearly as good as the German movie upon which it is based, Percy Adlon's Zuckerbaby (1985). Why does Hollywood persist in making limp retreads of European gems? City of Angels, Three Men & A Baby, Pennies From Heaven, Blame It On Rio, The Vanishing, The Birdcage... Even sitcoms like All In The Family, Sanford & Son and Three's Company are just inferior retreads of Brit originals. To be fair, the Brits tried to remake The Golden Girls, and an unholy mess they made of that too... Sylvester Stallone's forthcoming remake of Get Carter fills me with abject dread. Are there no original ideas in La La Land any more?