THREE MEN and a BABY (vhs) *NEW* remake and similar items

Brand new factory sealed vhs tape is perfect for old school televisions as the image will fill your square frame. Retro pop-n-go video has no menus to navigate either. THREE MEN and a BABY begins with the lifestyles of three bachelors--Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, and Ted Danson--who share a luxury apartment and play host to a never-ending stream of girlfriends. We meet the girlfriends and their friends, and then it's the morning after Selleck's big birthday bash, and on the doorstep outside their apartment is a bassinette containing a little baby named Mary. The baby was apparently fathered by Danson, an actor who has just left to spend ten weeks shooting a film in Turkey. Selleck and Guttenberg contemplate the little bundle with dread, and Selleck's confusion is not helped when he goes to the supermarket to buy baby food and gets a lot of advice about babies from a helpful clerk. ("You mean you don't even know how OLD your baby is?" she asks incredulously.) Shortly after comes one of the funniest scenes in a long time, as Selleck and Guttenberg, an architect and a cartoonist, try to change Mary's diapers. The basic situation may sound familiar and even overworked, but the way they act it and the way Leonard Nimoy directs it, it builds from one big laugh to another. At first they're baffled by this little bundle that only eats, sleeps, cries, and makes poo-poo--lots and lots of poo-poo. "The book says to feed the baby every two hours," Selleck complains, "but do you count from when you start, or when you finish? It takes me two hours to get her to eat, and by the time she's done, it's time to start again, so that I'm feeding her all the time." THREE MEN and a BABY is a faithful reworking of a French film in which "packages" were left with the bachelors on the same day--a baby and a fortune in heroin--along with the message that "the package" would be picked up a few days later. The plot allows them to know nothing about the heroin, so they think the "package" is the baby, and that leads to a misunderstanding with some vicious drug dealers. I assumed that the drug angle would be the first thing written out of the script for American consumption. But no, Leonard Nimoy and writers James Orr and Jim Cruickshank have remade the entire French movie, drugs and all, leading to a confrontation between the heroes and the dealers in a mid-town construction site. Luckily, there's enough of the domestic comedy to make the movie work despite its crassier instincts. And one of the big surprises of the movie is Tom Selleck's wonderful performance. 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. When he looks at baby Mary with love in his eyes, you can see it there, and it doesn't feel like acting.