Baby, Baby, Baby (2015)

Directed by: Brian Klugman | 83 minutes | comedy, drama, romance | Actors: Adrianne Palicki, Brian Klugman, Michaela Conlin, Kelsey Grammer, James Roday, Dennis Haysbert, Cloris Leachman, William Shatner, Jonathan Silverman, Kelly McCreary, James Babson, Gianna Gomez, Julian Paul Stein, Justin Smith, Jessica Alba, Frances Brisbane , Peter Cameron, Angel Cardenas, Bradley Cooper

‘Baby, Baby, Baby’ is a charming film by director (and lead actor and writer of the script) Brian Klugman. Klugman plays Sydney Greenbaum, an actor who only plays the fool in commercials and also writes short stories. When he is dumped by his girlfriend Courtney, he loses all faith in relationships. However, his friend JB (a hilarious role by James Roday) urges Sydney not to give up. It may sometimes be against you, but for him the one is also walking around somewhere.

When Sydney meets the lovely painter/barmaid Sunny (a disarming Adrianne Palicki), it seems he has finally won the jackpot. A smart lady and also funny and pretty. Everything is going great and Sydney even moves in with Sunny. After the first honeymoon, Sydney’s jealousy rears its ugly head and his imagination regularly runs wild with him. For example, he suspects Sunny of having a relationship with gallery owner Sebastian Kurtz-Wuhler (Kesley Grammar from ‘Cheers’). Can Sydney defeat his demons or risk losing the best thing that ever happened to him?

‘Baby, Baby, Baby’ is originally brightened up with short films, analyzes that Sydney writes about the phenomenon of relationships. In these sketches (Honesty, First Date, Baggage, Shrinking Stan and Heartsick) we see a slew of familiar faces: Bradley Cooper, Jessica Alba, William Shatner and Dennis Haysbert (from the TV series ’24’).

All in all a pleasant rombow with a slightly sharper edge. It’s not all sweet that rolls out of the mouths of the protagonists. The Thanksgiving scene in particular is exemplary in this one. According to the cover a comedy about ‘moving on, moving in and everything in between’. ‘Baby, Baby, Baby’ is about a couple who are confronted with their doubts and fears regarding ‘matters of the heart’. It can be good and it can be against. The trick is: how do you deal with adversity? How do you overcome a broken heart? Klugman gives us a warm-blooded and recommendable insight.