Simply A Masterpiece

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Who'd ever think that a full movie about a baby falling into a drainpipe would be so exciting, sad and suspenseful? For a Lifetime movie, Everybody's Baby gets really addictive to watch, because you wonder whether or not baby Jessica will even make it out alive. I was questioning throughout the movie if she'd live; this isn't Disney, Lifetime often has characters die in the end, but this movie isn't just about a baby, it's about how a town can put its differences aside to pull resources together and have the child returned safely to Cissy and Chip (Cissy was on the phone when Jessica got stuck). It's shockingly a true story, can you believe this actually happened? And I think that for a dramatized version of the story it was very well-acted and portrayed. Jessie Jones plays the role of the b*tchy, stuck-up doctor very convincingly, and Laura Loesch, who plays Jessica, did a great job, especially for an infant (if I was that age I'd find being in a movie set to be very stressful). I really loved the background soundtrack and wish I could buy it somewhere.

I watched this one night on TV when there wasn't much else on and wondered how they could make this film last nearly 2 hours? You get taken in by the emotion of it all, I found myself shouting at certain characters, like Mother for being so stupid to leave kids that young near a very deep well only covered by a plant pot? And the guy in charge who refused to listen to the guy offering him new water jet drilling ( maybe Jessica would have gotten out sooner? ) And then there was the guy sent to pull her out who was not strong emotionally. The only downside was the ending, it would have been good to have known more about what happened afterwards? All the acting was very good especially the actress playing the part of the mother.

I first saw this movie when I was about six years old. It had a profound effect on me. The story of Jessica McClure is one that will undoubtedly touch everyone who hears it. Jessica: Everybody's Baby vividly shows the events that took place on October 14, 1987. This is a movie that I'm sure will stay with me always. The movie begins with Jessica playing in the backyard. The majority of the movie is a heart-wrenching journey in which baby Jessica cries out for help while desperate paramedics struggle to rescue her. The emotional reactions of her family are also shown throughout the film. The ending is, in my opinion, the greatest part of the movie. I recommend having some tissues by your side.

As I am a daddy, this movie was hard for me to watch.Shoot! The event was hard to hear about when it happened and I wasn't even a daddy then.There are many views of this event and many levels on which to examine it. Some of the possibly valid ways would sound mean. (For example if I wanted to, (which I don't!) I COULD say poor children die every day, and I don't know about it and don't suffer for it, the way I did for Jessica McClure, because they die in a common, rather than an unusual way, and they are further away, than she was, and don't get the expedient media attention that Jessica got. But I am not (at least not yet) that cynical. But the thing that made this movie was the SOUND of the little two-year old girl hooting and hollering up the hole, from twenty feet below. And the look on her dad's face. (There, but for the grace of God, might I be.) I don't know how I could ever endure such a thing. But all one can do is endure it.