When five year old Julian lands on his doorstep, the surprise result of a sexual dalliance of Sonny's roommate, Sonny decides to keep the lad as his adopted son and prove to Vanessa that he's really a grown-up. However, before Sonny can spring his newfound maturity upon Vanessa, she shows up with a new grand fatherly beau, leaving Sonny to raise the child on his own. The movie takes the expected schmaltzy turn when the boy's custody becomes a legal issue. The resulting courtroom scene turns out to be both embarrassingly bad and deathly dull. Her work is reminiscent of Drew Barrymore's in The Wedding Singer or Renee Zellweger's in Jerry Maguire .
Children require both nurturing and admonition.
They need to be corrected, taught, reproved, taught, encouraged, taught, and taught some more. A parent's primary responsibility is to teach his or her child the proper standard for life and living. In other words, the difference between right and wrong. Everything else pales in comparison. Without a true standard, life erodes into chaos and confusion, two qualities that are definitely described as being devilish.