Nobody's Baby (2001)

Nobody's Baby
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Medium level violence, Medium level coarse language, Nudity

Director: David Seltzer
Actors: Gary Oldman, Mary Steenburgen, Skeet Ulrich, Radha Mitchell, Peter Greene, Gordon Tootoosis, Anna Gunn, Bob Eric Hart, Elaina Merkey, Emily Merkey, George Sullivan, Patrick Shining Elk, Cory Dangerfield

A slack-jawed yokel discovers the joys of parenthood while trying to avoid the law in this gleefully tasteless comedy. Billy (Skeet Ulrich) and Buford (Gary Oldman) are two dim-witted rednecks who grew up together in an orphanage; as adults, the pair ended up in prison after reading other people's mail for a laugh was interpreted as mail theft by the authorities. Buford, who is marginally more intelligent than Billy, plans a jailbreak, and after escaping prison in a paddy wagon, the pair split up, with plans to reunite later. While en route to Utah, Billy accidentally causes an auto wreck that leaves behind only one survivor -- a baby, whom Billy is able to rescue. But Billy knows next to nothing about caring for a infant, and truck stop waitress Shauna Louise (Radha Mitchell) bravely offers to help show him the ropes, with her neighbor Estelle (Mary Steenburgen) volunteering to nurse, having given her own baby up for adoption a few days earlier. When Buford tracks Billy down, he sees the baby as a potential gold mine, imagining that some relative somewhere would be willing to pay a ransom for his return. However, Billy and Shauna Louise have grown attached to the child and they aren't willing to give him up. While Buford tries to formulate a Plan B, sleazy used-car salesman Norman (Ed O'Neill) arrives on the scene; he knows Billy and Shauna Louise didn't come by the baby honestly and is eager to use this knowledge to his advantage.

DVD
Status: Normal
Run time: 112mins
Origin: UNITED STATES
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Member Reviews (3)

3 Member Reviews
John O.
says
Aside from a grand performance by Gary Oldman, and good ones from Steenburgen and Mitchell, rather forgettable and contrived.
Posted Friday, 31 August 2007 See my other reviews
Erika V.
says
An impressive find. I got the movie because I like Skeet Ulrich and I wasn't dissapointed. It's very funny and definitely worth watching if you enjoy that "silly" humour.
Posted Wednesday, 4 October 2006 See my other reviews
Nicole A.
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Acting is good from whole cast. The script idea is good, but the situations are contrived to the point of being ridiculous. It is silly in places but it has a sweet ending.
Posted Monday, 27 March 2006 See my other reviews