Everybody loves babies, which is why it is no wonder that infantile children have practically become the stars of their own genre on both the big and small screen. Of course, for every movie or TV show that makes raising a baby look like a dream, there are plenty of others that make them look like little nightmarish forces to be reckoned with. We have both kinds in this adorable bundle.
The Boss Baby (2017)
A popular subcategory of the baby movie genre is the talking baby movie, and one of the most popular examples is the hit DreamWorks Animation movie, The Boss Baby. Based on a short children’s book by Marla Frazee, the film stars Alec Baldwin as the voice of a metaphysical business CEO who is accidentally born on Earth and teams up with his 7-year-old brother (voiced by Miles Bakshi) to stop his company’s rival: Puppy Co.
horror movie classic, Rosemary’s Baby, but that is likely for the best. In its shocking final moments, Mia Farrow’s Rosemary discovers that the child she and her husband, Guy (John Cassavetes), have been trying to have is actually the spawn of Satan.
unseen character, Nanny.
ridiculous things that kids dealt with in ’90s movies, such as ransom schemes, which is what Bennington Austin “Bink” Cotwell IV (Adam and Jacob Joseph Worton) becomes a victim of in the John Hughes-penned Baby’s Day Out. Of course, the nine-month-old manages to put his kidnappers (played by Joe Mantegna, Joe Pantoliano, and Brian Haley) through the ringer by evading their reach throughout Chicago, one hazardous encounter at a time.
Jason Reitman. Elliot Page, in his breakthrough role pre-transition, plays the titular 16-year-old girl, who searches for a couple looking to adopt after a one-night stand with her friend, Paulie (Michael Cera), results in an unwanted child.
movie you might not have known was a remake is director Leonard Nimoy’s Three Men and a Baby, based on the 1985 French film, Three Men and a Cradle. It stars Tom Selleck, Steve Gutenberg, and Ted Danson as three bachelors sharing an apartment whose lives are thrown for a loop when they are forced to take in the infant daughter that Danson’s character, Jack, did not know he had.
parenthood. Steve Martin’s George Banks narrates what he endures after discovering that both his wife, Nina (Diane Keaton), and daughter, Annie (Kimberly Williams-Paisley), become pregnant around the same time.
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beloved animated series to ever air on Nickelodeon was Rugrats, which gave audiences of all ages an inside-look at the highly-imaginative lives of a group of close-knit toddlers. Some of Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, Lil, Angelica, and Susie’s adventures even made it to the big screen in movies that also introduced us to Tommy’s little brother, Dil, and Chuckie’s adoptive sisters, Kimi.
movies by Joel and Ethan Coen is Raising Arizona, which stars Nicolas Cage as a former convict and his wife, a former police officer played by Holly Hunter. When they discover they are unable to conceive, they decide to take desperate measures, kidnap the infant son of a well-known furniture magnate, and raise him as their own, leading to inevitable consequences.
great Korean movie inspired by a real-life service offered in the country called a baby box, where women can anonymously and safely leave their unwanted children. The film follows two men (played by Song Kang-ho and Gang Dong-won) who steal a baby from the box intending to sell the child themselves, but the unexpected return of the mother (played by Lee Ji-eun) complicates their plans.
beloved horror-comedy movie, Ghostbusters, ups the ante on the horror with a plot that involves Oscar, the infant son of Dana Barrett (Sigourney Weaver). He is chosen to be a vessel for the spirit of the powerful 16th-century sorcerer, Vigo the Carpathian, to possess so he can escape the confines of an enchanted painting and be among the living again.
classic ’80s movie from legendary director Jim Henson starring Jennifer Connelly as a teenage girl whose wish that her infant half-brother would be taken away by goblins actually comes true. In order to rescue him, she must enter the world of a fantasy book she read for her school, where she encounters Jareth, the king of the goblins, played by pop star David Bowie.
classic Disney Channel Original Movie Quints is shorthand for quintuplets, which refers to a mass of five infant children being born at once. In the film, only child Jamie (Kimberly J. Brown) is overwhelmed by the amount of attention she receives from her parents until the arrival of her five new siblings changes her family dynamic forever.
best Val Kilmer movies as it stars the actor as a disgraced swordsman whom Willow enlists to help protect the child from an evil queen.
Los Angeles Business Journal, in the early 2000s, FreeInternet.com ran a successful ad campaign featuring a talking infant named Bob (voiced by comedian Ken Hudson Campbell). A couple of years later, the commercial mascot became the star of his own sitcom, Baby Bob, in which his parents (played by Adam Arkin and Joely Fisher) try to keep his gift of speech a secret.
T.O.T.S. (2019-2022)
T.O.T.S. is an acronym for “Tiny Ones Transport Service.” The Disney Channel show follows a pair of delivery birds who care for a group of baby animals.