The Gift of the Non-Alibi
In the film “Three Men and a Baby”, the character Jack Holden, along with his two young urban professional NYC roommates, struggle to find a solution to having to care for a child that Jack fathered out-of-wedlock, and that was suddenly dropped at their doorstep. With his roommates now angry with him for this interference into their mostly self-indulgent lives, and with Jack, himself, suddenly finding a huge obligation where once was only freedom from almost all responsibility, Jack decides to appeal to his own mother to come and care for the child. Upon introducing his mom to her new granddaughter, the two of them immediately bond as you would expect - Jack: “Oh, I'm in awe. I mean, look at you. You pick her up like a pro.” Mrs. Holden: (smiling warmly) “I pick her up like a grandmother. That's called experience. Darling, let's see you. She's so lovely. What's her name?” “Mary.” “Mary! Well, Mary! Look at the way she's l...