Three Men and a Baby **** (1987, Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, Ted Danson, Nancy Travis) – Classic Movie Review 3559

Leonard Nimoy is the director of this 1987 blockbuster comedy starring Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson as fun-loving bachelors who find a baby (played by twins Lisa and Michelle Blair) dumped in their doorway.

Then they find that they are all fingers and thumbs with the nappies when they decide to look after her.

The three buddies – architect Peter, artist Michael and actor Jack (Selleck, Guttenberg, Danson) – share a Manhattan apartment. When Jack goes off to film in Turkey, Peter and Michael find the baby daughter he doesn’t know exists left outside their door, dumped by Jack’s girlfriend.

With a screenplay by James Orr and Jim Cruickshank reworking Coline Serreau’s 1985 French hit Three Men and a Cradle [Trois Hommes et un Couffin], Three Men and a Baby is funny, charming and shamelessly sentimental.

The success is led by the trio of smart comedy performances, with Selleck especially enjoyable, though Guttenberg and Danson are charming too. Its success both as a movie and at the box office proved a major feather in the cap of Nimoy as director.

Also in the cast are Nancy Travis, Margaret Colin, Celeste Holm, Philip Bosco, Derrick de Lint and Cynthia Harris.

A sequel followed with the same stars: Three Men and a Little Lady, directed by Emile Ardolino in 1990.

© Derek Winnert 2016 Classic Movie Review 3559

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