Nobody's Baby | |
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Directed by | David Seltzer |
Written by | David Seltzer |
Produced by | Boaz Davidson Harvey Kahn Shanit Keter Gary Oldman John Thompson Douglas Urbanski |
Starring | Skeet Ulrich Gary Oldman Radha Mitchell Mary Steenburgen |
Cinematography | Christopher Taylor |
Edited by | Hughes Winborne |
Music by | Joseph Vitarelli |
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Distributed by | Artisan Entertainment |
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Running time | 112 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Nobody's Baby is a 2001 comedy film written and directed by David Seltzer and starring Gary Oldman and Skeet Ulrich.
In this comedy, Billy Raedeen (Skeet Ulrich) escapes the law after being convicted with his partner in crime Buford Bill (Gary Oldman). On his way to Utah, Billy rescues a baby from an auto wreck and decides to keep it though he knows next to nothing about caring for an infant. He gets help from diner waitress Shauna Louise (Radha Mitchell) and her neighbor Estelle (Mary Steenburgen). When Buford tracks Billy down, he sees the baby as a monetary potential. However, Billy and Shauna Louise have grown attached to the child and they are not willing to give her up.
Following its premiere at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, the film was not released theatrically. It received a USA home video release on August 20, 2002. [1]
Geoffrey Gilmore, director of the Sundance Film Festival, called the film "a pure delight from start to finish": [2]
Variety , reviewing the film after its premiere at Sundance on January 21, 2001, described it as "aim[ing] somewhere between Dumb and Dumber and Three Men and a Baby . The review stated that the film's "witless script wrings few laughs from its retread conceits...What's most toxic, however, is having to watch these actors sweat for their paychecks. Oldman vanishes into mutton chops and Walter Brennan mannerisms, gamely making an idiot of himself, to absolutely no humorous result....Steenburgen, Greene and O'Neill are allowed to be little more than unpleasant; Matthew Modine surfaces in a nothing role. Twinkling amidst the cow pies, Ulrich clearly relishes playing dum-dum, and his disarming sweetness lends the film whatever fleeting conviction it can claim." [3]
Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes records a 0% approval rating and a 3.95/10 average score, based on six reviews. [4]
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