The Baby Dance

Laura Dern, gifted at playing white-trash roles, is Wanda, a dirt-poor Louisiana mother pregnant with her fifth child who answers a wealthy couple's "baby wanted" ad. Stockard Channing is Rachel, the would-be adoptive mother who quietly clashes with Dern at every turn. The dance these two women do, along with their husbands, during the weeks before the baby's birth is fraught with friction. Both wear their desperation on their sleeves--one driven by poverty to sell her baby, the other by infertility to basically buy it.