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25 April 1986 (USA) morePlot:
Jacques, steward de Air France, accepte de garder un paquet pour le compte de Paul. Le paquet sera remis chez lui à la maison... more | add synopsisAwards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 4 wins & 4 nominations moreUser Comments:
Coline Serreau's 3 Hommes et un Couffin (3 Men and a Cradle) moreCast
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Three Men and a CradleTrois hommes et un couffin (France) (alternative spelling)
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Iceland:L | Australia:PG | Argentina:13 | Chile:14 | Finland:K-12 | France:U | Peru:14 | South Korea:12 (DVD rating) | Spain:T | Sweden:7 | USA:PG-13Fun Stuff
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This is the French film that was remade as the treacly
ubersuccess "Three Men and a Baby." They are both equally good,
and for different reasons.
Pierre the architect, Michel the cartoonist, and Jacques the air
steward all live in the same Paris apartment. Their swinging ways
are turned upside down when Jacques' hitherto unknown infant
child is left on the doorstep with a note attached from the mother
saying she will be in the United States on a modelling shoot for a
few months. Jacques is not there, either, as he is in the Far East.
He did promise to hold a package for a friend, and Pierre and
Michel assume baby Marie is it.
Very similar to the remake, so far. The baby is given to drug
dealers, who come looking for the "package" of heroin. The
exchange is not made, and the police follow Pierre and Michel,
looking for the narcotics. Strangely, halfway through the film, Michel
hands off the heroin in a diaper to the dealer, and this plot (which
never worked in either film) suddenly ends! No hidden camera, no
dressing like a woman, and no eccentric detective. I wondered just
what the heck these people were going to do for the rest of the
film.
This is where the darkness creeped in. The mother, Sylvia, comes
home and takes the baby back. The three bachelors try to get back
to their womanizing and drinking, but they are set upon by such an
omnipotent depression, I thought I might have to call the mental
health hotline. Michel and Jacques do see the baby on occasion,
but try not to bond with it. Pierre is down right suicidal, laying in bed
with a squeaky toy.
While the first half of the film was not the light fluff of the remake,
the second half was so sad and depressing, it gives many foreign
films a bad name. The baby is so cute, but all the adults here
come off as self centered. A birthday celebration where the
shallow guests complain that a child is not "interesting" until it is a
toddler was meant to be funny, but is a little painful to watch.
In the end, the mother brings the baby back, and the men dance
for joy. This was a truly happy scene, and I wish some more
happiness had creeped in to other scenes. I can see why the
remake made such a big fuss about the drug dealer subplot, can
you imagine Tom Selleck looking like he wanted to die and Steve
Guttenberg spying on the model mom from afar? Women do not
come off well at all, being either sexual toys for the men or
complete b!tches who are only concerned with their own
happiness, screw the kid.
The film was good, but also ripe for the remake. The remake was
good, but never should have spawned the excrutiatingly awful
sequel.
This was dubbed from French into English, and is rated (PG13) for
strong profanity, brief female nudity, very brief male nudity, some
sexual content, sexual references, and drug references.