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| IIn Baby, It's You, filmmaker Anne Makepeace takes
us on an intimate journey through the Kafkaesque world of fertility
clinics, into the home of lesbian parents, to Christmas among
Utah polygamists and New England Puritans, to her brother’s
Appalachian goat farm, and on a time trip back to the dark age
of illegal abortion. Linking these stories is the bond of family.
The characters are the filmmaker, her husband, and their brothers
and sisters, all baby-boomers in their forties. The documentary
looks at the unconventional ways they are all belatedly creating
families of their own. Woven throughout the program is the story
of Makepeace and her husband's attempts to conceive a child
through intensive fertility procedures, and the emotional roller
coaster of anticipation, disappoi |
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