3 Men and a Baby

"They changed her diapers. She changed their lives."

1987 1h 42m EN

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6.2

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67%

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6.2

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★6.2TMDB · 1,144🍅67%Rotten Tomatoes●61Metacritic★6.2IMDB · 62,370

Comedy

Synopsis

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Three bachelors find themselves forced to take care of a baby left by one of the guy's girlfriends.

“They changed her diapers. She changed their lives.”

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Cast

Tom Selleck
Peter Mitchell
Steve Guttenberg
Michael Kellam
Ted Danson
Jack Holden
Margaret Colin
Rebecca
Celeste Holm
Jack's Mother
Nancy Travis
Sylvia Bennington
Philip Bosco
Det. Sgt. Melkowitz
Paul Guilfoyle
Vince

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Leonard Nimoy
Writers: Jim Cruickshank, James Orr, Coline Serreau
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Grossed $243M — a 22.1× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.

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ERA

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39 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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CINEMA

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Part of the "3 Men Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Leonard Nimoy, shot by Adam Greenberg. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Marvin Hamlisch. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Michael A. Stevenson shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Tom Selleck and Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "They changed her diapers. She changed their lives.".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Leonard Nimoy directs. Adam Greenberg behind the camera. Marvin Hamlisch scores. Michael A. Stevenson cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Grossed $243M — a 22.1× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.
239 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
3Part of the "3 Men Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Directed by Leonard Nimoy, shot by Adam Greenberg. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Marvin Hamlisch. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Michael A. Stevenson shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Tom Selleck and Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "They changed her diapers. She changed their lives.".
9IMDB entry: tt0094137 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Classified under 8 themes, including "new york city", "baby", "bachelor", "roommates".
11Released under 40 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Adam Greenberg
Original score: Marvin Hamlisch
Editing: Michael A. Stevenson
Production design: Peter S. Larkin
Costume design: Larry S. Wells
Makeup / hair: Alan D'Angerio
Sound: Dean Okrand
Runtime: 102 min · 1h 42m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $11,000,000
Box office: $242,780,960
Return: 2207% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG
IMDB: 3 Men and a Baby (1987)
Rotten Tomatoes: 67% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 61/100
IMDB rating: 6.2/10 · 62,370 votes
MPAA: PG

Awards

2 wins & 2 nominations total

Part of

3 Men Collection

Tom Selleck double bill. In 'Three Men and a Baby', bachelors Peter Mitchell (Tom Selleck), Jack Holden (Ted Danson) and Michael Kellam (Steve Guttenberg) live together in an opulent Manhattan penthouse. While Jack is away, a 'package' arrives for him: a baby girl. Peter and Michael are forced to cope with the rigours of childcare until Jack returns to explain. In the sequel 'Three Men and a Little Lady', Mary is now five years old and her mother, Sylvia, wants to find a 'real' father for her child - who is still living with the three bachelors. When Edward (Christopher Cazenove) proposes, Sylvia accepts - much to the fury of the three dads and Mary.

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CinemaSerf2023-12-31
★ 6/10
"Jack" (Ted Danson), "Michael" (Steve Guttenburg) and "Peter" (Tom Selleck) live the lives of three reasonably well-off bachelors until they open the door one morning to find a little bundle of joy complete with a note declaring that "Jack" is the father and that the young girl is all their's! Panic sets in but being men of the world, they quickly adapt (!?!) to parenting with all the right nappies, milk bottles - indeed, you name it and they get it wrong! To add to their woes, another knock at their door reveals that a couple of hoodlums are after another sort of powdery mixture and are convinced that these three have it. What now ensues plays just a bit too much to stereotype for me. The baby does way too much irritating screaming - authentic, I know, but not after ten minutes in a cinema! I can't usually tell Danson and Selleck apart at the best of times and Guttenburg seems to add little to the rather far-fetched dynamic that is cluttered rather than augmented by the gangster thread, then a court hearing, then some antics on a construction site. The original concept is the best thing about it but the execution is over-scripted and just too contrived to stay entertaining beyond the first twenty minutes.

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