Editing Three Men and a Baby (section)

==Plot==
Architect Peter Mitchell, cartoonist Michael Kellam, and actor Jack Holden are happy bachelors in their shared [[New York City|New York]] apartment, with frequent parties and flings while decorating the entryway. The movie begins with Peter celebrating his birthday. The next day, a baby named Mary arrives on the trio's doorstep with a note revealing she is the result of Jack's [[wikt:Special:Search/tryst|tryst]] with an actress named Sylvia during a [[Stratford Festival]] Shakespearean production a year prior.

Jack is in [[Turkey]] shooting a [[B movie]], and makes arrangements with a director friend to have a package delivered to the apartment. Jack asks his roommates to keep the delivery a secret per his friend's wishes; when Mary arrives, they believe she is the "package".

Peter and Michael are totally befuddled on how to care for Mary, and Peter leaves to buy supplies. Their landlady Mrs. Hathaway delivers a small box – the actual "package" of heroin – which Michael tosses aside. They learn to care for Mary, including diaper changes, baths, and feedings. Peter tries to get help from his on/off girlfriend, Rebecca, but she showed no interest. Taking care of her has even interfered in their daily work schedule.

Four days later, two drug dealers arrive at the apartment for the package. Peter and Michael mistakenly give them Mary, along with a can of powdered milk the dealers believe is the heroin. Peter discovers the actual package; realizing the mix-up, he runs downstairs but trips, spilling the package's contents. He gathers up the drugs and confronts the men outside, causing a scuffle. A police officer on horseback intervenes; Peter rescues Mary, but the dealers flee with the can of powdered milk. The officer detains Peter and Michael at the apartment until Sgt. Melkowitz, a narcotics officer, arrives to question them. Jack calls from Turkey, but Peter and Michael are unable to talk openly as they are being recorded. They successfully hide the drugs, learning that Jack's friend Paul Milner is a drug dealer. A suspicious Melkowitz puts them under surveillance.

Mrs. Hathaway babysits Mary while Peter and Michael go to work. Returning home, they find Mrs. Hathaway bound and gagged and the apartment ransacked by the dealers, but Mary safe; a note threatens, "Next time we'll take the baby". Peter and Michael continue to care for Mary, adjusting to "fatherhood" and growing attached.

Peter incapacitates an intruder late at night, who turns out to be Jack, returning early after his movie role was cut. Jack assures Peter and Michael he knew nothing about the heroin or Milners dealings. He initially denies his connection to Mary, but Sylvia's note convinces him he is Mary's father. Peter and Michael, now competent caregivers, are exhausted and frustrated from their around the clock babysitting, and pass all duties to a bewildered Jack, refusing to help him. Jack tries to get help from his mother, but she refuses him. After letting Jack suffer for a while, Michael and Peter help him, and together the three bachelors share babysitting duties. They even installed a telephone in their bathroom shower after failing to contact Jack the first time.

Later they receive a news clipping in the mail – Milner has been attacked by the drug dealers and hospitalized – with another threat: "Don't let this happen to you!" Peter, Michael, and Jack formulate a plan to trap the dealers, arranging a meeting. Jack, disguised as a pregnant woman, leaves the building with Mary, while Peter and Michael leave in a cab, followed by undercover officers, but manage to lose them in another cab driven by Jack. Peter meets with the dealers at the top floor of a construction site while Jack is manning the power breakers to the elevators and watching Mary. Michael, hidden in the vents, records Peter's conversation with the dealers but loses his balance and falls into the room, and a chase ensues. They manage to trap the dealers in an elevator as the police arrive. With the recording, they prove their innocence to Melkowitz, and the dealers are arrested.

Peter, Michael, and Jack fully embrace their role as Mary's guardians, until Sylvia arrives to take Mary with her to London. After she leaves with Mary, the three realize how desperately they miss the baby. Racing to the airport, they just miss Sylvia's plane for London. Defeated, they return home to find Sylvia and Mary at their doorstep. Sylvia tearfully says she doesn't want to give up acting but must if she has to raise Mary alone. They invite her and Mary to move in; she accepts, and the four live happily with the baby. They even added a new mural to their front entrance with the front pushing a stroller with Mary in it.