Three Men and a Baby
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Three Men and a Baby is a 1987 comedy film. It follows the mishaps and adventures of three bachelors as they attempt to adapt their lives to pseudo-fatherhood with the arrival of one of the men's love child. The script for the film was based on the 1985 French movie Trois hommes et un couffin.
Three Men and a Baby was the major box-office hit of that year, surpassing Fatal Attraction and eventually grossing US$167 million in the US alone. The movie was Leonard Nimoy's first non-Star Trek directorial role.
It won the 1988 ASCAP award and the 1988 People's Choice Award for Favorite Comedy Motion Picture.
The movie was followed by the 1990 sequel, Three Men and a Little Lady.
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Plot
Peter Mitchell (Selleck), Michael Kellam (Guttenberg) and Jack Holden (Danson) are happy living their bachelor lives in their lofty New York City apartment which they share. They all have girlfriends, jobs and a carefree lifestyle. This is disrupted when a baby arrives on their doorstep one day. A note with the child, Mary, indicates that it is Holden's, the result of an affair with a recent co-star actress. The baby arrives in Holden's absence—he is in Turkey shooting a movie—and his roommates mistakenly believe they are to deliver her to two men who arrive at their door asking for "the package."
They discover moments before their departure that the men are drug dealers who were actually seeking a package of heroin. They retrieve the infant, leaving the men empty-handed.
What results is a major change to the mens' lives as they try to adjust to pseudo fatherhood—balancing the demands of work, a social schedule and the rearing of a child. Soon their paternal instincts take hold, and they grow attached to the child.
The drug dealers, demanding justice, sack the mens' apartment looking for their drugs. The men formulate a plan to trap the dealers when they negotiate a deal to deliver to illicit goods.
Finally the baby's mother arrives, asking for Mary back. Moments before her departure back to England, Rebecca (Nancy Travis) realizes she cannot give up her career to raise her daughter alone. The men, having grown attached to the child, invite her to move into their apartment with them.
Cast
The Dead Boy
A rumor went around that a boy killed himself during filming and his ghost is seen in the movie. But the dead boy was actually a cardboard cutout of Ted Danson's character. Other versions of the rumor are:
- That the boy was the grandson of the rumoured "hanging man" in The Wizard of Oz.
- The boy had been killed in the "apartment" where the movie was filmed. In reality, it was filmed on a sound stage.
This rumor is an example of an Urban legend.
External links
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- Urban Legand Reference page about dead boy rumour (http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/3menbaby.htm)