Many years ago I watched the first hour or so of a film on the telly but for some reason never watched it to the end. It jumped about a bit so wasn't easy to follow, but intriguing nonetheless.

It was about a couple who lived somewhere in America, they were lecturers I think, but it kept jumping back to their childhood in Norfolk. He had got her pregnant when they were teenagers, and she went to a witch type woman for an abortion. If I remember right this made her sterile, and when in America she lost the plot and stole someone 's baby.

Anyone got any ideas what it was called? Probably filmed in the early 90s.

Was that Norfolk as in Virginia or Norfolk as in Great Yarmouth?
The only baby-stealing film I can remember was Arizona Junior but it doesn't really match your description.

Possibly "Waterland" - from a great book by Graham Swift (well worth reading even if I'm wrong!)

Raising Arizona was about that time, Nicholas Cage comedy about a con and a Policewoman who steal a Baby.

There was also one with a fit blond bird who's name I can't remember (Rebecca De Mornay?)who infiltrated a family with a young baby as their nanny and went weird, and tried to take over from the mother. I seem to remember she was sterile and had a relationship earlier with the husband, who didn't recognise her years later. "The Hand that Rocks the Cradle", I think.

Hope this helps.

Exactly my thoughts after I'd read PiN's post! Checking it on Wikipedia and it appears you're right. A fantastic novel, beautifully written. Never seen the film though.

Is that the one where Kevin Costner has gills?

No you plonker that was Bodyguard

Thats Bull Durham! (See what I did there?).

what did you do

Nah! It was Robin Hood, wasn,t it?

Field of Breams, gills

Yes! That's the feller.

Thanks folks, I knew the Bunker would come up trumps again.