‘Made in America’

Whoopi Goldberg and Ted Danson’s romance proved fleeting, but it gave a terrific charge to this lively and entertaining 1993 romantic comedy. Goldberg plays the successful owner of a Berkeley bookstore devoted to African culture and the single mother to a pretty 17-year-old (Nia Long). When Long discovers that she was conceived via a sperm bank donation, she becomes determined to find the unknown donor-father--who turns out to be the San Francisco Bay Area’s gaudiest, hardest-selling car dealer (Danson). Beeath a raucous surface, “Made in America” actually has much to reveal about the multicultural society in which we live (Cinemax Saturday at 6 p.m.).