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Friday, April 10, 2026

Three Men And A Little Lady (1990)

Director Emile Ardonlino
Rating Rating
MPAA PG
Run Time 104 min
Color Color
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Sound Dolby Stereo
Producer Touchstone Pictures
Country: USA
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Plot Synopsis

Five happy years after Mary's arrival in Three Men and a Baby (1987), the three ecstatic single fathers and still-unrepentant bachelors, Peter, Michael, and Jack, find themselves living under the same roof with her British actress mother, Sylvia. However, things take a turn for the unexpected when Sylvia decides to move to the United Kingdom after a promising business proposition combined with a welcome marriage proposal by her director and fiance, Edward. In low spirits, Peter, Michael, and Jack travel to London, where one of them discovers that he has deeper feelings for Sylvia and that Edward might have a secret agenda. Will the three men and their little lady let Edward break up their family?

Quotes

Jack Holden: [arrives to Mary's school interview in a vampire costume] I'm doing a commercial for margarine. I'm Count Cholesterol.

Filming Locations

Broughton Castle, Broughton, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, UK
(on location)

Burton Dassett Hills Country Park, Southam, Warwickshire, England, UK
(outdoor filming - Peter uses red phone box)

Douai School, Woolhampton, Reading, Berkshire, England, UK
(on location)

London, Greater London, England, UK
(on location)

Stonyhurst College, Stonyhurst, Clitheroe, Lancashire, England, UK
(college exteriors)

In 2013, Tom Selleck stated in an interview that he would agree to return as Peter Mitchell for Three Men and a Bride. Selleck has spoken to Ted Danson and Steve Guttenberg, who have also expressed enthusiasm for reuniting for a third movie.

Leonard Nimoy declined to return to direct this film, as he was busy making Funny About Love (1990), a move he later regretted.

While the movie included location shooting in New York and Great Britain, all scenes that featured Ted Danson were shot in Los Angeles as he had a long planned family vacation that could not be changed.

In the first film Peter buys a giraffe toy for Mary, while in this film you can see that same giraffe in the background but this time it has long hair, and a pink bow around its neck.

Peter and Michael are the first ones to again have to deal with a major situation without Jack.

Continuity

At the wedding cocktail party, Peter Mitchell removes a large wad of caviar from Miss Lomax's nose and noticeably deposits the wad on her canap? dish. The large wad of food on her plate alternately appears and disappears as they talk.

In the kitchen, when Sylvia removes the cake from the pan, it breaks into multiple pieces. She arranges it haphazardly on the plate and begins to ice it while still standing at the kitchen counter. When she brings the plate and icing into the living room the cake has been arranged better and there is no icing on it.

When Sylvia is telling the men that she is getting married, she puts water in a vase at the sink. While at the sink, she only puts a very small amount of water in the vase. In the next shot, she turns away from the sink and the vase is half full.



Revealing mistakes

When Peter and Michael are driving in the United Kingdom they get stuck with goats all around them. Peter tries to open his door to hear the goat herder?s directions but when he tries to open the door he can't get out, so by accident he hits the goat with his door.