Immediate Family (film)

Immediate Family
Immediate Family
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Jonathan Kaplan
Written by	Barbara Benedek
Produced by	Lawrence Kasdan; Sarah Pillsbury; Midge Sanford
Starring	Glenn Close; James Woods; Mary Stuart Masterson; Kevin Dillon;
Cinematography	John Lindley
Edited by	Jane Kurson
Music by	Brad Fiedel
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	27 October 1989;
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$14 million
Box office	$5,932,613

Immediate Family is a 1989 drama film directed by Jonathan Kaplan. It stars Glenn Close and James Woods as a married childless couple who want a baby. They decide to adopt from a pregnant teenage girl played by Mary Stuart Masterson who later has second thoughts.

Plot

Successful couple Linda Spector (Glenn Close) and Michael Spector (James Woods) have been married for ten years and desperately want to be parents. They try to conceive but are unable. They turn to an adoption agency and meet the pregnant 17-year-old Lucy (Mary Stuart Masterson). She thinks the couple can provide better for her baby than she and her boyfriend Sam (Kevin Dillon). The Spectors take care of Lucy during her pregnancy and they become close but Lucy becomes uncertain about giving up her baby.