Three Men and a Baby

Theatrical Release Date: 1987 11 25 (USA)

UPC: 786936117738

Studio: Walt Disney Video

MPAA Rating: PG   Contains:[Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Language]

Summary: Three Men and a Baby is an Americanized remake of the 1985 French comedy hit Three Men and a Cradle. Tom Selleck, Ted Danson and Steve Guttenberg play three upwardly mobile New York bachelors who share an apartment. Their even-keel lifestyle is thrown out of whack when a young woman leaves a baby on their doorstep, suspecting that film director Danson is the father. The balance of the film is devoted to milking as much humor as possible out of the situation of three urbane young men trying to play nursemaid with nary a clue of what they're doing (at one point, a desperate Selleck offers Guttenberg a thousand dollars if Guttenberg will change a diaper). A subplot involving drug dealers is thrown in to sustain audience interest after our trio of heroes become accustomed to a baby around the apartment. "Urban legend" aficionados please note: That cardboard cutout of Ted Danson briefly glimpsed in one scene of Three Men and a Baby is not the ghost of a little boy who died in the bachelors' apartment before filming started. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Category: Comedy

Awards: Best Picture - Comedy or Musical – People's Choice Awards

Features: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound
Widescreen (1.85:1)
French and Spanish subtitles

Three Men and a Baby

Format: Digital Video Disc (DVD)

Release Date: 04/02/2002

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Theatre Wide-Screen

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1

Runtime: 102 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Side #1 --
0. Scene Selection
1. Opening Titles/Peter's Birthday Party [13:43]
2. A Delicate Package [9:05]
3. Baby Doodle [8:39]
4. It's a Baby! [7:35]
5. The Wrong Package [16:00]
6. Jack's Turn [3:56]
7. "We'll Do It Our Way" [9:05]
8. Daddy's Little Girl [9:21]
9. Sylvia Returns [5:18]
10. Four Is Better Than Three/End Credits [6:18]

Perry Seibert

One of the many American remakes of French comedies that populated multiplexes in the late eighties, Three Men and a Baby sets up a standard sitcom situation then trades on the star power of its cast to make it work. While the men's inability to immediately grasp the subtleties of parenting makes for easy laughs, it is their interaction with one another that gives the film the energy that helped make it a smash hit. The film has a 1940's feel to it, and it is not difficult to imagine Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, and Danny Kaye doing this material in black and white. There is nothing original in the film, but the actors are comfortable with this material and they sell it like the professionals they are. The movie became one of the most successful home videos in history, partially due to an urban legend about the appearance of a ghost in the film. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Alexandra Amini  Actor 
Sharolyn Sparrow  Actor 
Claire Cellucci  Actor 
John Gould Rubin  Actor 
Jackie Richardson  Actor 
Barbara Budd  Actor 
Dave Foley  Actor 
Colin Quinn  Actor 
Christine Kossak  Actor 
Gary Klar  Actor 
Louise Vallance  Actor 
Dianne Crittenden  Actor 
Eugene Clark  Actor 
Earl Hindman  Actor 
Dan Scott  Actor 
Camilla Scott  Actor 
Francine Beers  Actor 
Mario Joyner  Actor 
Jonathan Whitaker  Actor 
Michael Burgess  Actor 
Thomas Quinn  Actor 
Joe Lynn  Actor 
David Ferry  Actor 
Edward D. Murphy  Actor 
Michele Duquet  Actor 
Robert W. Cort  Producer 
James Cruikshank  Screenwriter 
Ted Field  Producer 
Marvin Hamlisch  Composer (Music Score) 
Jean-Francois Lepetit  Executive Producer 
Leonard Nimoy  Director 
James Orr  Screenwriter 
Tom Selleck  Actor 
Steve Guttenberg  Actor 
Ted Danson  Actor 
Nancy Travis  Actor 
Margaret Colin  Actor 
Celeste Holm  Actor 
Philip Bosco  Actor 
Michelle Blair  Actor 
Paul Guilfoyle  Actor 
Cynthia Harris  Actor 
Derek de Lint  Actor 

Country: USA