Baby Cakes (film)
Baby Cakes is a 1989 television movie starring Ricki Lake and Craig Sheffer. It was released on Valentine's Day in 1989 and is currently aired sporadically on Lifetime and Lifetime Movie Network.
Plot
Obese mortuary cosmetician Grace Hart (Ricki Lake) lives in Queens and rides the subway everyday. Her somewhat unhappy existence is noted as she shops in a department store with her best friend, Keri (Nada Despotovich) a socially awkward and mousy waitress, and is rudely asked to please look at their "Large Ladies Department". That same night she and Keri are at a local skating ring when a young, attractive, amateur ice skater, Rob (Craig Sheffer), catches Grace's eye; she claims that he is the most beautiful man she has ever laid eyes on.
The following morning, Grace is wrapping a wedding present (a painted photo of Grace and her father) for her butcher father, Al's (John Karlen), supermarket wedding. Grace's new stepmother, a cashier at the same supermarket named Wanda (Betty Buckley), claims to care but her sweet-talking attitude somehow always ends up insulting Grace in a passive aggressive sort of way instead of helping. When Grace is caught overindulging at the wedding, Wanda and Al express their concerns with "Grace, you have such a pretty face, but, if you don't lose weight, you never will find a boyfriend". To shut Wanda up, Grace lies and states that she already has a boyfriend. A surprised Wanda stares as she claims that she and Al would love to meet him.