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Thanksgiving weekend 1987 had two schmaltzy sweet movies competing, featuring five stalwart talents of the time: Tom Selleck, Ted Danson, Steven Guttenberg, Steve Martin and John Candy. In fact, the posters for both John Hughes’ “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” and Leonard Nimoy’s (yes, that Leonard Nimoy) “Three Men and a Baby” practically begged audiences to throw their arms around them.
“Planes, Trains and Automobiles” sometimes made for stressful watching, but the buddy dramedy still brought the laughs. “Three Men and A Baby” (and a boy ghost?) was a bit kinder, more gentler, and turned The Spaniels hit song “Goodnite, Sweetheart, Goodnite” into a modern day lullaby while earning over $3 million more than its box office rival.
“Raising Arizona” and “Baby Boom” were among other films of the period showing the pitfalls and pratfalls of raising kids. John Hughes got into the spirit of things the following year with “She’s Having a Baby,” and a year later John Candy acted as a father figure to older kids in “Uncle Buck.” The genre hit its nadir, perhaps, in 1989 with “Look Who’s Talking.”
“Three Men and a Baby” was a remake of the 1985 French film “3 hommes et un couffin” (“Three Men and a Cradle”) and is reportedly being remade into a Zac Efron/Disney+ picture. “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” was an original work of Hughes, meanwhile, and is reportedly being remade into a Will Smith/Kevin Hart flick.
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