Firstborn

A teenager and his kid brother spar with their mother's shady new boyfriend in this dramatic thriller from veteran British director Michael Apted. When her ex-husband remarries, Wendy (Teri Garr) feels despondent -- until she starts dating handsome, unctuous Sam (Peter Weller), an underemployed ...more

Although it works fairly well as a straight drama about the emotional fallout of divorce, Firstborn proves far more enjoyable when viewed as a campy relic of cautionary '80s hand-wringing about broken families. Fresh off the success of Tootsie and Mr. Mom, Teri Garr once again scrambles gender roles in the non-comedic role of an insecure single mother going through her second adolescence. Whether sleepwalking through her parenting duties or blowing rails off a coffee table during a swingers' ...more