Production Year: 1987 - Comedy - Director: Leonard Nimoy - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring: Nancy Travis, Michelle Blair, Tom Selleck, Ted Danson, Steve Guttenberg more
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Three Men And A Baby DVD
They changed her diapers. She changed their lives. Take three of Hollywood's hottest ... more
stars add one adorable baby girl and the result is one of the biggest funniest comedy hits ever! Three handsome Manhattan bachelors finding their dating and mating...
Three Men And A Baby
Take three of hollywoods hottest stars (Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, Ten Danson), add ... more
one adorable baby girl, and the result is one of the biggest funniest comedy hits ever! Three handsome Manhattan bachelors find dating and mating rituals irreparably damaged when an unexpected new roommate - complete with crib, pacifier and dirty nappy - shops up on their doorstep. This bouncing bundle of joy is anything but joyous - until the trio's hilarious fathering instincts take over and she becomes Daddy's Girl to all three men. Unexpected story twists and endless laughs, make Three Man and a Baby pure enchantment for all.
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A review by babycougar on Three Men And A Baby (DVD) July 9th, 2009
Author's product rating:
Did you enjoy it?
Loved it
Story
Good
Characters / Performances
Good
Special Effects
Standard
How does it compare to similar films?
Outstanding
Advantages:
Very funny most of the time
Disadvantages:
Too much time spent dealing with the criminals
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
Full review
THREE MEN AND A BABY is a comedy set in New York city, in the mid-1980s.
It stars Steve Guttenberg, Ted Danson and Tom Selleck as three thirty-something friends who live together in New York City.
Jack (Ted Danson) is an actor, Peter (Tom Selleck) a successful architect and Michael (Steve Guttenberg) is an artist.
The three of them have been enjoying the single life in Manhattan, boasting a very busy social life, and have recently moved in to their newly refurbished apartment. During the housewarming party, a friend of Jack's asks him for a favour: he would like to have a package for him delivered to Jack's address the next morning, to be picked up a few days later by a someone else. Jack agrees, but as he departs the next day to shoot a film in Turkey, he passes the responsability on to his two flatmates.
The following morning, Peter and Michael find a baby girl on their doorstep, with a note from one of Jack's ex-girlfriends explaining that it is their baby and that as she cannot cope with caring for her, she is leaving her with him. Assuming that this is the 'package' Jack was talking about, the two friends are as furious as they are shocked, and they are left having to take care of the baby, knowing nothing about how to do it.
They are so consumed with their predicament, that when a neighbour hands them a small package that came for them, it goes virtually unheeded.
A few days later, when two strangers arrive to pick up their package, as pre-arranged, Michael and Peter hand the baby over to the men. Only a few instants later, the two friends realise their mistake, and find out also that the real the package contains heroin.
Peter manages to run after and get the baby back from the drug dealers, who leave with a can of powdered milk, mistakingly beliving it is where the package has been hidden.
It turns out that Jack knew nothing about either the baby or the drugs, but from then on, they find themselves not only having to care for the baby, but also having to contend with the drug dealers who are still after the drugs, and avoid the detective that is on the case and suspects their involvement.
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Directed by Leonard Nimoy (the pointy eared one out of Star Trek) the film was 1987's most successful, earning multiple awards and grossing over 167 million dollars in the United States alone.
It was also a cinematic staple of my childhood, and I have lost count of how many times I watched it back then. I enjoyed watching the silliness of these clueless men, desperately trying to properly care for a little baby.
Re-watching it now, I think the original film from which it was adapted - the 1985 french hit TROIS HOMMES ET UN COUFFIN - just edges it in hilarity, but it is still a very enjoyable film.
The comedy is of course centered on the three men's apparent unsuitability and unpreparedness for the parental role they are suddenly forced to play.
They are all single men who have been embracing rather enthusiastically the bachelor lifestyle, their personal lives featuring an ever changing cast of women.
Of the three, Jack is the biggest womaniser, closely followed by Peter. Michael, on the other hand, is a more sensitive, romantic type, whose time is often spent befriending girls rather than trying to seduce them. This state of affairs is made obvious from the start: the film opens with a full length video montage set to the song "Bad Boy", by the Miami Sound Machine (all 4:02 minutes of it), which establishes who they are and the life they are living: Peter involved in the remodeling of the apartment, Michael decorating it, and a succession of women entering and exiting their apartment, not always entirely amicably.
The scenes depicting the men's awkwardness in dealing with the baby are hilarious, particularly the one when Peter goes to the supermarket to buy baby products.
Their growing attachment to the baby is also shown very nicely, and in a way that seems natural rather than contrived.
It is a very well executed film, which follows closely the original in which it was based, but it would have been improved if they had spent less time on the criminals' subplot and focused more on the baby-men dynamic where the comedic element is to be found.
This is a formula frequently employed in comedy films that seem to be embarrassed to just be an all-out comedy: they have to include an element of seriousness that breaks the flow of the story, but it adds nothing to it and just distracts from the comedy, consuming precious running time that could have been better used creating more comic scenes.
Another negative aspect of the film is the merry-go-round of women in the men's lives, which seems exaggerated and distateful, although this is a reflection of the original french version, in which the men had even made a pact not to allow any one woman to spend more than one night in their house.
In any case, this promiscuity has at least provided one sobering moment amidst the frantic progression of events: if you were ever in doubt that 1980s fashion was one long and cruel experiment on the evils of conformity and the brain-washing powers that a dominant culture can have on individual reasoning, just take a look at the clothes and hairstyles those poor women coming in and out of the apartment in the opening scene of the film were wearing. *SHUDDER*
Other than that, this is a very entertaining film, that I would recommend to anyone, and a true classic of its era.
Advantages: Steve Guttenberg and baby Mary are adorable Disadvantages: silly drug subplot, a bit clichéd
...flat with pictures of the three roommates, the Rockettes, etc., all in cheesy '80s colours. Peter is an architect and has designed the whole place, along with several skyscrapers. Jack is an irresponsible actor who gets the rest of the guys in trouble. He considers himself a serious thespian, but his biggest roles have been in television adverts. However, he takes himself very seriously, asking an agent at a party, ‘Do you think I'm overexposed?’ ... ...a package delivered to the three men's place. ‘It's a delicate matter, so don't tell anyone about it,’ he says. Jack leaves New York to shoot a film in Turkey and informs his flatmates about the package. On the appointed day, Peter returns from jogging (horrendously short shorts abound in this film, and it's not a pretty sight even on otherwise attractive men) and finds something that couldn't have been delivered by post-- a baby. Conveniently, ...
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Advantages: Good clean comedy Disadvantages: A bit too schmaltzy
...and a Cradle) in which three single men are presented with the fruits of the loins of one of them. The Hollywood version was directed by none other than Leonard Nimoy who boldly goes about his task of bringing the film alive.
The essence of the film is the same as the original and as it is a simple idea stretched to an hour and a half you do get the overall impression of gilding the lily or more accurately labouring the point. Much of the action ... ...context of it with the three confirmed bachelors.
The bachelors are played by Tom Selleck who is a successful architect who retains his cool manly charm before melting at the thought of the baby Mary. Former Cheers star Ted Danson shows a nice turn in his personality for self obsessed and charmless womaniser to sensible and responsible parent. Steve Guttenberg, who always seems the support rather than the star, plays the wacky slightly mad flatmate ...
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Advantages: Not bad viewing...it's a film that all the family can share together. Disadvantages: Not as funny as the video cover says!
...into funny,yet heartwarming films then Three men and a baby...is the film for you...
Three Men and A Baby is a film about three guys sharing a house........ with successful careers and all around good lives. One day a problem arrives. In the form of a baby. Jack, one of the three men is an actor off doing work in South America. During this time, a baby shows up at the guys' doorstep with a note saying it’s Jack’s baby.
Well now we have two grown ...
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Advantages: Funny, cute, and it has a baby in!!! Disadvantages: Perhaps some of the jokes are a little obvious
...stuff: The story opens on three comfortably confirmed bachelors living the high life in their trendy apartment in NYC. We have the serious architect (complete with outdated moustache) The frivolous actor, and the cartoon designer (apparently this was a really 'cool' job at the time) Whilst 'the actor' is out of town, on a job which for some reason involves coconuts and drag, the other two guys are having the time of their lives with women, parties, ... ...a church doorstep' style, a baby girl is left on their front doorstep with a note attached outlining that she is the daughter of the actor and that her name is Mary. This is where the really fun stuff begins! Can you imagine giving a baby to two men who have never seen one up close before and asking them to look after it? Exagerate this twofold for comic effect, and you have what happens next in the story. They don't know how to feed her, her nappy ...
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Advantages: Cute, Funny, Easy to watch Disadvantages: Boy's aren't so keen - Is that a disadvantage?!?
...their lives until a knock on the door one morning. Jack's away on a 'shoot', and Peter is left to answer the door. He notices a pink basket on the floor, with a baby inside. Meet Mary. Cutest little result of a one night stand you ever saw. She's not Peter or Michael's, she's Jacks. While this is happening Jack rings the apartment to tell them that a friend of his will be dropping a package off, and it will be collected in a couple of days. Peter believes the baby is the package - cue some very odd behaviour, lots of laughs at men being wee'd upon and some involvement from the police. Without ruining the story itself, there isn't a lot more I can tell you. But, what would happen if Mary's mother, Sylvia, came back and wanted her? Get the tissues at the ready.
The next film, ThreeMen and a Little Lady, is the next chapter and I think it...
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Plot: Three carefree and self indulgent bachelors find their designer lives turned upside down with the arrival of a baby girl on their penthouse doorstep. Chaos ensues as they all slowly come to terms with fatherhood and the nightmare of feeding, bathing and clothing the tiny cherub.
Release details
DVD Region: DVD
Studio(s): WALT DISNEY STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAINM; TECHNICOLOR DISTRIBUTION SERVICES
Release date: 15/06/2006
No of Discs: 1
Catalogue No: BED 888440
Barcode: 5017188884402
Composer: Marvin Hamlisch
DVD Description
A remake of the hit French comedy "Trois Hommes et un Couffin" ("Three Men and a Cradle") about a trio of confirmed bachelors who unexpectedly discover the joys of fatherhood when a baby is left on their doorstep. The three men -- an actor, an architect and a cartoonist -- share a swanky pad where they entertain a steady succession of one-night stands. This all changes when a woman appears at their apartment one day with the actor's illegitimate infant. Dad happens to be out of town at the time, so it's up to his two woefully inexperienced roommates to deal with the baby that has been abandoned to their care.
Languages
Main Language: English
Professional reviews
Review: "...A dependable sense of fun....Danson stands out as the cut-up..." (New York Times, p.C24, 25/11/1987)
"...[The] film is a good showcase for the comic abilities of this threesome..." (Variety, 25/11/1987)
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