Three Men and a Baby
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Leonard Nimoy
Produced by	Robert W. Cort Ted Field
Written by	Jim Cruickshank James Orr Coline Serreau (for Trois hommes et un couffin)
Starring	Tom Selleck Steve Guttenberg Ted Danson Nancy Travis
Music by	Marvin Hamlisch
Distributed by	Touchstone Pictures
Release date(s)	November 25, 1987 (USA)
Running time	102 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Followed by	Three Men and a Little Lady
IMDb profile

Three Men and a Baby is a 1987 comedy film starring Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, and Ted Danson. 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 script for the film was based on the 1985 French movie Trois hommes et un couffin (Three Men and a Cradle). Image File history File links Size of this preview: 407 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (500 × 737 pixel, file size: 75 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) This image is of a poster, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher or the creator of the work depicted. ... Leonard Simon Nimoy (born March 26, 1931) is an American actor, film director, poet, musician and photographer. ... Ted Field (1953 - ), music producer, movie producer, and heir to the Marshall Fields department store fortune. ... James Orr refers to at least two well-known people: The US political figure James Lawrence Orr Hollywood writer, producer and director James Orr and two not quite so well-known: James Orr (1770-1816), a poet or rhyming weaver from Ulster also known as the Bard of Ballycarry. ... Coline Serreau (* October 29, 1947 in Paris) is a french film director and writer. ... Trois hommes et un couffin (En. ... Thomas William Selleck (born January 29, 1945 in Detroit, Michigan) is a Golden Globe and Emmy Award winning American actor, screenwriter and film producer, best known for his starring role on the long-running television show Magnum P.I.. // Born in Detroit to Slovak-Rusyn[1] father Robert Selleck and... Steve Guttenberg (born on August 24, 1958), sometimes credited as Steven Guttenberg and Steven Robert Guttenberg, is an American actor. ... Ted Danson (born Edward Bridge Danson III on December 29, 1947) is an American actor most notable for his television work, and specifically, for his role as central character Sam Malone in the sitcom Cheers, and his role as Dr. John Becker on the series Becker. ... Nancy Travis Nancy Travis (born September 21, 1961 in New York City, New York, USA) is a Jewish-American actress best known for supporting roles in both movies and television. ... Marvin Hamlisch (born June 2, 1944) is an American composer. ... Touchstone Pictures (also known as Touchstone Films in its early years) is one of several alternate film labels of The Walt Disney Company, established in 1984. ... is the 329th day of the year (330th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... // May 9 - Actor Tom Cruise marries actress Mimi Rogers. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... // May 9 - Actor Tom Cruise marries actress Mimi Rogers. ... Comedy film is genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor. ... Thomas William Selleck (born January 29, 1945 in Detroit, Michigan) is a Golden Globe and Emmy Award winning American actor, screenwriter and film producer, best known for his starring role on the long-running television show Magnum P.I.. // Born in Detroit to Slovak-Rusyn[1] father Robert Selleck and... Steve Guttenberg (born on August 24, 1958), sometimes credited as Steven Guttenberg and Steven Robert Guttenberg, is an American actor. ... Ted Danson (born Edward Bridge Danson III on December 29, 1947) is an American actor most notable for his television work, and specifically, for his role as central character Sam Malone in the sitcom Cheers, and his role as Dr. John Becker on the series Becker. ... A bachelor is a man above the age of majority who has never been married (see single). ... // Back to the Future, starring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd and Lea Thompson Rambo: First Blood Part II, starring Sylvester Stallone Rocky IV, starring Sylvester Stallone The Color Purple, starring Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Avery, Rae Dawn Chong, Adolph Caesar Out of Africa, starring Meryl Streep and... Trois hommes et un couffin (En. ...

Three Men and a Baby was the biggest box office hit of that year, surpassing Fatal Attraction and eventually grossing US$167 million in the United States alone[1]. The movie was Leonard Nimoy's first non-Star Trek movie directorial role. Fatal Attraction is a 1987 thriller about a married man who has a weekend affair with a woman who refuses to allow it to end and who becomes obsessed with him. ... Leonard Simon Nimoy (born March 26, 1931) is an American actor, film director, poet, musician and photographer. ... The current Star Trek franchise logo Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment series and media franchise. ...

The soundtrack included the Peter Cetera song "Daddy's Girl", which was used for the movie's big music montage sequence. Peter Paul Cetera (born September 13, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois, USA) is an American singer, songwriter, bass guitar player and producer best known for being an original member of the rock band Chicago, before launching a successful solo career. ...

The movie won the 1988 ASCAP award and the 1988 People's Choice Award for Favorite Comedy Motion Picture. Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) is an organization known as a collecting society that protects intellectual property, ensuring that music which is broadcast, commercially recorded, or otherwise used for profit, pays a fee to compensate the creators of that music. ... The Peoples Choice Awards, held annually in January, is one of the few awards shows to be based on popularity. ...

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Plot

Peter Mitchell (Selleck), Michael Kellam (Guttenberg) and Jack Holden (Danson) are happy living their lives as bachelors in their lofty New York City apartment which they share. They all have girlfriends, jobs and a carefree lifestyle. 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". New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... This article includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ...

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 with a bottle of powdered milk. These lollipops, above, were found to contain heroin when inspected by the US Drug Enforcement Administration In jurisdictions where legislation restricts or prohibits the sale of certain popular drugs, it is common for an illegal drugs trade to develop. ... Heroin (INN: diacetylmorphine, BAN: diamorphine) is an opioid synthesized directly from the extracts of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum. ...

What results is a major change to the men's 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. A father is the male parent of a child. ...

The drug dealers, demanding payment, ransack the men's apartment looking for their drugs. The men formulate a plan to trap the dealers when they negotiate a deal to deliver the illicit goods.

Finally the baby's mother arrives, asking for Mary back. Moments before her departure back to England, Sylvia (Nancy 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. Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem specific to England — the United Kingdom anthem is God Save the Queen. ... Nancy Travis Nancy Travis (born September 21, 1961 in New York City, New York, USA) is a Jewish-American actress best known for supporting roles in both movies and television. ...

Recently "Three Men and a baby" was remaked to bollywood (India) as "HEY BABYY". It staring Ritesh Deshmukh, Akshay Kumar, Fardin Khan.

Urban legend

In the final cut of the movie, there is a scene in which Ted Danson's character walks through the house with the baby. While doing so, they pass a large window and a dark shape that looks like a shotgun (barrel pointed down) is seen outside the window. When they pass in front of the window a second time, the figure of a boy can be seen reflected on the shower glass on the background. An urban legend exists that a boy killed himself (with a shotgun) during filming and that it was his ghost seen in the movie. Ted Danson (born Edward Bridge Danson III on December 29, 1947) is an American actor most notable for his television work, and specifically, for his role as central character Sam Malone in the sitcom Cheers, and his role as Dr. John Becker on the series Becker. ... An urban legend or urban myth is similar to a modern folklore consisting of stories often thought to be factual by those circulating them. ...

The "dead boy" was actually a cardboard cutout of Ted Danson's character [2] (though the rumor is still debated). This was first topic discussed on the first episode of "TV Land's Myths and Legends", and was referenced in episodes of Family Guy and Supernatural. Family Guy is an Emmy award winning American animated television series about a nuclear family in the fictional town of Quahog (IPA or ), Rhode Island. ... List of Supernatural episodes Hollywood Babylon is episode eighteen of the second season of the television series Supernatural. ...

Other versions of the rumor are:

• That the boy was the grandson of the rumoured "hanging man" in The Wizard of Oz.
• The boy had been killed in the "flat" where the movie was filmed. In reality, it was filmed on a sound stage.

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Production

The movie was filmed in Toronto. The construction scenes took place at Scotia Plaza, a major skyscraper that was being built at the time. Scotia Plaza, Toronto Scotia Plaza is a commercial office complex commenced in 1985 and completed in 1988 in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ...

External links

• Three Men and a Baby at the Internet Movie Database
• Urban Legend Reference page about dead boy rumour
• A Page with further rumours relating to the boy