Title:
Nobody's Baby
Released: 2001
Genre: Comedy
Runtime: 110 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Plot
Summary: Nobody's Baby combines the kidnapping
high jinks of Raising Arizona with the sheer goofiness
of Dumb and Dumber. Billy (Skeet Ulrich) and Buford
(Gary Oldman, channeling Michael Jeter with scraggly
hair and moustache), like characters in the crazed
comedies of the Brothers Coen and Farrelly, are as
kindhearted as they are softheaded. The two grew up
in the same orphanage and have been like brothers
ever since. Due more to stupidity than malicious intent,
most of their adult lives have been spent behind bars.
After a lucky escape from a paddy wagon (just as they're
about to be sent to separate prisons), Billy witnesses
a car crash and rescues the sole survivor--a baby.
He decides to keep it. Buford would prefer to exchange
the tyke for ransom money, but fate has other plans
in this black comedy that works best as drama, but
is less effective when reaching for laughs.
Comments:
A
lot of funny with a touch of drama and pinch of criminal.
Two not so bright small time crooks end up with a
baby girl by "accident" and find a change
in their lives. Billy (Ulrich) becomes the guy to
take care of the child and look after it. Buford (Oldman)
wants to get rid of it, but the others they knit with
are for doing the best they can. They conspire to
rob a pawn shop to get the necessary money, only to
end up heroes for stopping a heist already in play.
At one point Billy starts to let the baby be adopted,
but takes only 60 seconds to change his mind. And
money appears when needed the most. The cast was great,
Gordon Tootoosis, Anna Gunn, Peter Green and Mary
Steenbrgen. In the end Billy is the father he wanted
to be with the expectation he will marry Shauna Louise
(Radha Mitchell) when she gets out of prison (You'll
have to see the movie to find out why she's there).
This would of been great family entertainment, but
for the nudity and foul language, which, in my opinion
added nothing but an "R" rating. Worth the
time to watch and enjoy the humor. 8/10
