A Good Baby

A reclusive young man’s existence is forever changed when he discovers an abandoned baby in the nearby woods., A small town’s secrets prove deeper and more mysterious than they initially seemed in A Good Baby. Toker (played by Henry Thomas) is a young man living in a small North Carolina community, where he prefers to keep to himself. One day, while taking a walk in the woods, Toker finds a baby, and ventures into town to find out to whom it belongs. However, no one seems to know who the child’s parents are, and no one will claim it as their own. Toker soon draws the attention of an attractive woman named Roby (Cara Seymour), who is interested in him, but will have nothing to do with the baby. Toker, however, has grown to love the child and does not want to turn it away. The arrival of a mysterious salesman (David Strathairn) eventually leads to the discovery of the child’s true parentage. The directorial debut for Katherine Dieckmann, A Good Baby was screened at the 1999 Los Angeles Independent Film Festival., When a withdrawn young loner, Raymond Toker stumbles upon a abandoned new-born infant in the woods, he finds himself placed at the center of a series of treacherous events. Toker searches his sparsely populated community for clues to the missing mother and a home for the infant. He crosses paths with a girl haunted by the disappearance of her sister, and lock beauty Roby, who just wants to find a way out of town. A fast-talking travelling salesman, Truman Lester, bumps into Toker and the baby at the local general store, and can’t conceal his disturbing fascination with the radiant child. As Toker’s search for the mother propels him into the darkest of mysteries, the unsettling Truman becomes increasingly determined to track down Toker, and capture the infant for himself. A battle for the baby leads to unexpected consequences and pits evil against ‘A Good Baby’.