Three Men and a Baby
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 movie was a respectable hit 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.
Cast
Plot
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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 women, jobs and a carefree lifestyle. All 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 dealer's, demanding justice, sack the men's 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 (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.
