Cashing in on the then-topical case of a custody battle between the biological and adoptive parents of a baby girl when the real parents decide they want to keep her, this TV movie tear-jerker is a histrionic melodrama that only sees things in black and white and tends to come down on the side of the adopting couple (Susan Dey and Michael Ontkean). Given the fact that Dey and Ontkean are good-looking and wealthy and the child's natural parents (Amanda Plummer and David Keith) are poor and working class, the message seems clear here: surely Baby Jessica would be better off with someone rich. Plummer, at least, refreshingly real and unlikeable, will have you rooting against the whole idea.


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