- Nobody's Baby
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Nobody's Baby 
Directed by David Seltzer Written by David Seltzer Starring Skeet Ulrich
Gary Oldman
Radha Mitchell
Mary SteenburgenCinematography Christopher Taylor Editing by Hughes Winborn Release date(s) January 21, 2001 (Sundance Film Festival) Running time 112 min. 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.
Contents
Cast
- Skeet Ulrich as Billy Raedeen
- Gary Oldman as Buford Bill
- Radha Mitchell as Shauna Louise
- Mary Steenburgen as Estelle
- Gordon Tootoosis as Dog Havasu
- Anna Gunn as Stormy
- Peter Greene as Vern
- Matthew Modine as Sonny
Plot
Release
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]
Reception
Geoffrey Gilmore, director of the Sundance Film Festival, called the film "a pure delight from start to finish":[2]
- If you were impressed watching Oldman play a congressman, wait until you see him do comedy and line dance! With terrific turns by Mary Steenburgen and Radha Mitchell, Utah scenery, hilarious dialogue, and the best joke in a film this side of Something about Mary, Nobody's Baby is a wonderfully entertaining odyssey that should bring Seltzer nothing but accolades.
Variety, reviewing the film after its January 21, 2001 premiere at Sundance, described it as "aim[ing] somewhere between Dumb and Dumber and Three Men and a Baby. 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]
References
- ^ "Nobody's Baby - Miscellaneous notes". Turner Classic Movies. http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/450891/Nobody-s-Baby/misc-notes.html. Retrieved 2011-09-16.
- ^ Geoffrey Gilmore. "Nobody's Baby". Institute History. Sundance Institute. http://history.sundance.org/films/2254. Retrieved 2011-09-16.
- ^ Dennis Harvey. "Nobody's Baby". Variety. http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117797226/. Retrieved 2011-09-16.
External links
Films directed by David Seltzer Categories:- 2001 films
- American films
- English-language films
- 2000s comedy films
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