Synopsis
Three bachelors find themselves forced to take care of a baby left by one of the guy's girlfriends.
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Cast
- Tom SelleckPeter Mitchell
- Steve GuttenbergMichael Kellam
- Ted DansonJack Holden
- Nancy TravisSylvia Bennington
- Margaret ColinRebecca
- Camilla ScottCherise
- Philip BoscoDet. Sgt. Melkowitz
- Colin QuinnGift Shop Clerk
- Christine KossakOne of Jack's Girls
- Paul GuilfoyleVince
Recommendations
- 80
Empire
Charming and watchable. The three leads show their comedy potential. - 80
The Guardian
With Three Men and a Baby, Nimoy proved himself to be an adept handler of mainstream 80s comedy, updating the far more farcical (and chauvinist) French original Trois Hommes et un Couffin into something more Hollywoodised and slick. But within the slickness, he let his three leads, Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson shine through with their own individual charm. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
Luckily, there's enough of the domestic comedy to make the movie work despite its crasser instincts. One of the big surprises in the movie is Selleck's wonderful performance as the bachelor architect. After playing action heroes on TV and in the movies, he now reveals himself to be a light comedian in the Cary Grant tradition - a big, handsome guy with tenderness and vulnerability - 75
Chicago Tribune
Leonard Nimoy, in unTrekked territory as director of his first comedy, displays a sure sense of pace. His free-wheeling prologue and epilogue set a spontaneous, stylish tone that carries over into the body of this helium-filled entertainment. - 70
The New York Times
Three Men and a Baby follows the French film as faithfully as it possibly can, and it too revolves around one lone idea: that there's humor in the spectacle of a grown man, heretofore ignorant of his own gentler nature, discovering that he can indeed administer formula and change diapers. The hilarity inherent in this has its limits, but it's a premise with enough timeliness and warmth to account for the first film's success. And in terms of success, this glossier, more effervescent remake will undoubtedly outstrip the original. - 70
Los Angeles Times
Three Men strikes a funny chord. The audience seems to want to believe that these guys can be domesticated, but on another level, they don't want the trio broken. They want bachelor fathers, domesticated swingers. - 70
Variety
3 Men and a Baby is about as slight a feature comedy as is made - while at the same time it's hard to resist Tom Selleck, Ted Danson and Steve Guttenberg shamelessly going goo-goo over caring for an infant baby girl all swaddled in pink. - 60
Time Out
It is shamelessly sentimental, and could well send the hardboiled home to kick the cat.
