comedy drama from talented if erratic director martha coolidge concern a modern italian american work woman in brooklyn and pregnant and unmarried and find herself curious about the mother who abandon her and her father year before . begin brightly and with geena davis seemingly well cast in the lead and but it quickly become mire in colorless sub plot ( include the woman resentful best friend and her abusive husband and a schizophrenic mother and a needy stepmother and a malformed infant and and a married boyfriend . ) . by the midway point and davis begin to struggle in her role and push her pivotal moment too hard and lose her innate likability . bad and this scenario be far too neat and tidy and when the actor aren not be overly cute and theyre scream senselessly at each other . sadly and angie bomb out . half from .