User Reviews

This is one of those After School Specials that will just drag you in by the casting credits alone. It stars a then-unknown Rob Lowe (with a variation on the pageboy haircut) who breaks out of the shower singing and lip synching one morning while his Mom is calling him to breakfast. His cheery mood gets struck when he hears from Mom reading the newspaper that a teen girl a few towns over just delivered a baby boy. The girl is unwed. It's a girl Rob shagged during the summer 9 months ago. It's Dana Plato!) Rob slips outta his part time job as a bagging boy at the grocery store to go visit Dana and the baby. The baby's cute. Dana Plato..not so much. She's angry, yelling, throwing stuff and really over-acting. She never wanted Rob to know about the baby and plans to give it up for adoption. Because Rob has stepped forward she now can't give the baby up without him (the baby's father) signing paperwork too. He asks the social worker if he can have the baby for a trial period. He runs the idea past his Mom, who flips out (and throws something!) but then agrees. They take in the baby and Rob finds out it's no picnic balancing a screaming newborn, school and a part-time job. The final straw comes when that damn baby makes him miss cute girl Nancy McKeon's party! So he gives the baby up for adoption in the end. As far as AfterSchool Specials go this one falls above average. I once saw a TV movie with the same subject matter that ran close to two hours. Good for them that AFTERSCHOOL SPECIALS made this story fit into 45 minutes. Lowe does a good job, McKeon, although not given much to do does an adequate job and Plato fumes, furrows her brow and over-acts. All in all a pretty good special. Available on DVD through AMAZON.