They met, fell in love, had a baby. Not necessarily in this order. Featuring Stanley Tucci in his first starring performance, and winner of the Long Island Festival Audience Award, it marked Vern Oakley's producing and directorial debut. Jay Carr of the Boston Globe called it an intelligent and graceful movie. Played theatrically in the United States, was broadcast by HBO, and was released on video by Columbia TriStar.

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Video Transcript: A Modern Affair

On Screen:
Columbia Tristar
Home Video

Grace Rhodes:
I want to have a baby

Graces' friend:
So you’re going to wait for Mr. Perfect to show up and then he’s going to make it happen?

Grace Rhodes:
What about just a nice guy?

Graces' friend:
Sure…yeah, nice guy. You know, who’s single, who’s straight, who’s disease-free, who’s under 50.

Grace Rhodes:
OK….

Peter Kessler:
You can’t stay because I have to go my other job tomorrow.

Woman on phone:
Cryo-genetics

Woman with Peter:
I’d hate to have your squandering any of those precious bodily fluids.

Peter Kessler:
No we can’t.

Woman on phone:
Yes we are a sperm bank.

Peter Kessler:
No, no, no. No we can’t. No I won’t even start.

Woman in lab:
Oooh…good day at the office.

Graces' friend:
You’re just missing one thing.

Grace Rhodes:
I am not going to a sperm bank!

Man in lab:
Each tank holds up to 22,000 vials of sperm.

Grace Rhodes:
That’s a lot of sperm.

Man in lab:
We offer a bonus for the top donors. You see, give them something to shoot for.

Grace Rhodes:
Hi dad! I’m pregnant.

Graces' dad:
Who’s the father?

Grace Rhodes:
Number 247.

Man in lab:
Donors are kept scrupulously anonymous.

Grace Rhodes:
I just want to see him. I just want to know that he’s out there.

Man in lab:
I hope you are enjoying your stay with us.

On Screen:
Grace Rhodes snooping in the labs’ computers.

On Screen:
(Peter Kessler’s name on the comuter screen)

Grace Rhodes:
He’s bald

Peter Kessler:
I don’t know you very well. Obviously I thought that there was something, you know, between us.

Narrator:
It’s the story of a modern woman.

Grace Rhodes:
I have to tell you something.

Peter Kessler:
What?

Grace Rhodes:
Nothing.

Peter Kessler:
You’re married?

Grace Rhodes:
No

Narrator:
And the perfect man.

Grace Rhodes:
I have to tell you something.

Peter Kessler:
You’re involved with someone.

Grace Rhodes:
No

Narrator:
In a romantic comedy that goes beyond conception.

Peter Kessler:
You have some terrible disease?

Grace Rhodes:
No

Peter Kessler:
What?

Grace Rhodes:
Nothing.

Narrator:
A Modern Affair

On Screen:
A Modern Affair

Grace Rhodes:
What the hell am I doing with my life?

Credits.

End.