Nobody's Baby
Nobody's Babycombines the kidnapping high jinks ofRaising  Arizonawith the sheer goofiness ofDumb and Dumber. Billy (Skeet  Ulrich) and Buford (Gary Oldman, channeling Michael Jeter with scraggly hair and  moustache), like characters in the crazed comedies of the Brothers Coen and  Farrelly, are as kindhearted as they are softheaded. The two grew up in the same  orphanage and have been like brothers ever since. Due more to stupidity than  malicious intent, most of their adult lives have been spent behind bars. After a  lucky escape from a paddy wagon (just as they're about to be sent to separate  prisons), Billy witnesses a car crash and rescues the sole survivor--a baby. He  decides to keep it. Buford would prefer to exchange the tyke for ransom money,  but fate has other plans in this black comedy that works best as drama, but is  less effective when reaching for laughs.--Kathleen C. Fennessy