This is a TV movie that feels like it should have been a film. Overall it is charming, and sweet, yet more serious than it appears at first viewing. It is an offbeat mix of Cinderella/Pretty WomanI saw this many moons ago on the tube, loved it and never forgot it. I loved it because of the film's message. People are more than just their outward appearance. Heart and soul can matter more. Dreams can come true. Everyone, if they have the courage and spirit can make them come true, regardless of circumstance. Viewing the movie so many years later, I find that it still holds up for the most part. Rickie Lake's wonderfully realized Grace goes from finding her solace in a bag of chips to realized her zest for life and love in her pursuit of the man of her dreams.Why she chooses the character of Rob to give her love to is the weakness of the film. And it leads into the other central issue of the film, the mystery of love and attraction. Why do we love who we love? Grace focuses on Rob because he is beautiful. That at least is her initial rationale for why she wants him. Ultimately she wants him simply because she loves him and he makes her feel loved in return. Surely the best of reasons, maybe the only reason.If this film was made today, it might have ended differently. Rather than ending up with handsome Rob, Grace might have simply gone on to cosmetology school, growing from her relationship with Rob into a more confident woman, who would move on to someone else. A better ending for this movie? Maybe, but most women will thrill to the ending of Rob kissing her in the subway. I know I did. When I first saw it, and when I watched it again. Baby, dream your dreams.

Rikki Lake proves to be a great and touching actress. She proved she was funny in "Hair Spray" but proves she could make us cry! In this movie she plays a young woman who works in the morge! Not a happy place. Her best friend is a "world in ending" type. In this Love seems to be in the air for everyone! Its the holidays and everyone seems to be in love. Now working in the morge doesn't make life any rosier! After her dad gets married she lies about having a boyfriend and she gets a little depressed. Later on before she knows it she is smitten with a man that drives a train! She then will do anything to get a date from him! The co-stars in this movie are all great in the roles they play! Betty Buckley is just perfect! A must see!

When i first began to watch this movie i wasn't sure whether it was going to be any good, i thought Large girl pratically stalking a 'good looking' guy wasn't going to end well but it was absolutely wonderful the first time i watched it i could not stop crying.It is a symbol for all those woman out there who are not perfect, i'm one of them and when i watched this movie it gave me Hope, it sounds corny but its true. Not all great looking men want fabulous looking woman, ok most do but i don't believe that every guy who has a good looking girl is truely happy. That is what this movie show's, You wish and hope for long enough and maybe one day life will come up good after all.SPOILERSGrace is over weight, overly un-happy and overly lonely, She just wants to be seen for who she is and not what she looks like. When she and her friend go ice skating, Grace see's the most beautiful man on earth and at that moment she belives in herself that she has a chance with him. She begins to follow him, finds out he works as a train driver and that he has a perfect looking girlfriend but not the perfect life. She takes it upon herself to meet him and that she does at the ice ring where they get talking and she invites him to dinner. He doesnt turn up until the dinner is ruining but she forgives him and asks a favor for him to go to dinner with her and his family, he says yes, sticks up for her and they bond. They both decide that while his girlfriend is on a buisness trip he will move in with grace. Rob and Grace have the time of of there lives.But his girlfriend comes back early and ruins it all. Rob begins to realise that life with the perfect looking girlfriend isn't all its cracked up to be and that life with Grace is bliss. I won't ruin the ending.

Babycakes is a sweet film, but not nearly as good as the German movie upon which it is based, Percy Adlon's Zuckerbaby (1985). Why does Hollywood persist in making limp retreads of European gems? City of Angels, Three Men & A Baby, Pennies From Heaven, Blame It On Rio, The Vanishing, The Birdcage... Even sitcoms like All In The Family, Sanford & Son and Three's Company are just inferior retreads of Brit originals. To be fair, the Brits tried to remake The Golden Girls, and an unholy mess they made of that too... Sylvester Stallone's forthcoming remake of Get Carter fills me with abject dread. Are there no original ideas in La La Land any more?