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MPAA Rating: R Movie Release: 2001 DVD Release: 08/20/2002 Format: DVD Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 53 mins Studio: 20th Century Fox Members Wishing: 1 Genres: Comedy, Crime Comedy

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. Nobody's Baby was written and directed by David Seltzer, who previously dealt with troublesome children as the screenwriter for the horror hit The Omen. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Skeet Ulrich - Billy Raedeen
Gary Oldman - Buford Dill
Radha Mitchell - Shauna Louise
Mary Steenburgen - Estelle
Gordon Tootoosis - Dog Havasu

Artisan Home Entertainment evidently didn't think Nobody's Baby would attract much attention, so not only did the studio dump the film into the crowded direct-to-video market, it gave it only the barest of DVD presentations. The menu, with its playfully askew still photos of the chapter stops, is the only embellishment. But the stereo separation doesn't diminish the impact of the country-rock soundtrack, and the digital transfer of the image is very clean, with firm colors and lovely bright desert scenery. ~ Buzz McClain, All Movie Guide