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Immediate Family is a american film of genre Drama directed by Jonathan Kaplan released in USA on 27 october 1989 with Glenn Close
Immediate Family (1989)
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Add to a movie listImmediate 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 who later gets second thoughts.
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The 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.Actors
Glenn Close
(Linda Spector)
James Woods
(Michael Spector)
Mary Stuart Masterson
(Lucy Moore)
Kevin Dillon
(Sam)
Mimi Kennedy
(Eli's Mom)
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