You know I don't think I'd ever seen this one all the way through. 'Three Men and a Baby' was the biggest box office hit of 1987, making $240 million off an $11 million budget. The idea of a comedy being the biggest grossing film of a given year is almost unfathomable in this (I suspect now fading) era of super hero blockbusters, yet it the 80's it was pretty common.
A remake of a French film from a couple of years before 'Baby' was directed by Leonard Nimoy of all people, coming off his success both before and behind the camera in 'Star Trek 4'. Steve Guttenberg, plus TV stars Tom Selleck and Ted Danson are lady loving bachelor buddies sharing an apartment in New York City. They end up in unexpected custody of a six month old girl, while also landing in the middle of an underdeveloped hereon smuggling plot.
The script's not great, but you will get to like the three men, as well as the baby. Having 'tough' guy's lookin after a baby was apparently considered a hilarious concept back in 1987 and I expected it would date poorly. However the thing holds up, again not out of the strength of the story, or because anything is particularly funny, but because you just really like these characters, even if they're hardly deep. ***
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