3 Men and a Baby (1987)

Very disappointing...

Simply Perfect

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To be completely honest, if we put nostalgia for 80's and childhood aside, together with everything being so sweet and cute, this movie is really a crap. Too shallow for a drama and fails as a comedy too cause I did not laugh once. But nostalgia and cuteness... <36/10

Three bachelors have their lives flipped upside down when little baby Mary is left on their doorstep.A remake of successful 1985 French film Three Men And A Cradle, this Hollywood version took the box office by storm to make a domestic profit of over $155,000,000. It's not hard to see why really. Yes it looks a touch twee now, and the irritating drug-smuggling sub-plot (also in the original) grows more tiresome with subsequent revisits. Yet it has a frothy cleanness so lacking in many more similar big budgeted movies that came after it. Starring Tom Selleck, Ted Danson and Steve Guttenberg as the "no parenting skills" bachelors, Leonard Nimoy's film , (yes, Spock) sees quality interplay between the guys and some bona fide funny sequences as they in turn attempt to do right by Mary. Yep it's all telegraphed comedy, and the ending holds no surprises for anyone once Nancy Travis as Mary's mother comes back to claim the child. But come on folks, three beefy bachelors trying to change diapers and entertain a wailing baby has to be charming; surely? 7/10

Accurately funny comedy about two swinging bachelors who are left stranded with a little baby girl which they are forced to look after.Leonard Nimoy's film (based on the French hit "Three Men and a Cradle") is spot on with its humour as it details the misadventures of the two men as they struggle to feed, wash and contain the noisy child. Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson are a good team and the subplot fills in time quite nicely.When it starts to get sentimental, the film does weaken a little, however for the most part this is a comedy worth your while. Also starred Nancy Travis.Sunday, February 21, 1993 - T.V.

The "rumor" that the boy in the background of one of the scenes in the movie is a cardboard cutout is indeed false. I have carefully studied the scene in question and it resembles no Ted Danson and if watched very carefully the "cutout's" eyes follow Jack and his mother as they walk across the room. The so-called expose' pics of the boy are an inaccurate depiction. The scene never cuts away and the boy is better viewed when to the right of Jack and his mother, not the left as the pictures I've seen depict. Another excuse to the "gun" in the scene is that it is the side view of the cutout. This also is explainable. If you examine closely you will see that when to the right of Jack and his mother the gun and the boy are both at their frontal views. The gun and the boy never coexist within the scene. These public skeptic's explanations are simply to blow off publicity that the mother of the child did not desire. She believe the film makers were making a mockery of her sons death so they agreed to make public announcements that the boy was a prank and a fake.