Star Baby (2003 film)

Star Baby is a 2004 musical remake of the animated film Star Baby (1983), which starred Laraine Newman, Michael Jeter, Mel Blanc, Eleanor Reynolds, Alice Marriott and Patricia Parris. film based on the 1978 stage musical of the same name. It was directed by David Alan Grier and stars Kathy Najimy, Jane Fisher, Fred Stoller and Eddie Deezen. This film was Denise Nickerson's last acting performance before her death in 2019

Plot
Sally (Fisher) works in the Millinery Department at young Simon & Sister's department store on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. She is summoned to the office of the store manager, who informs her that she is fired because she is overselling hats, which creates too many returns and too much work for the accounting department. After work, Sally walks home and wonders what she will do to make ends meet.

On a step, she finds an abandoned baby in a blanket and instinctively picks it up to comfort it. As she bends over, the door behind the step opens and a woman ushers Sally and the baby inside. Sally has not noticed the sign that indicates the door belongs to an orphanage. When she denies the baby is hers inside, the staff disbelieve her, having experienced countless women ashamed to admit that they bore a child out of wedlock. Sally explains that she has just lost her job at Simon & Sister's and insists there is no way that she will care for a baby that is not hers.

After she leaves, the head of the orphanage decides to intervene on her behalf, knowing the family to be charitable. He convinces the firm to hire Sally back, and she is summoned to a meeting with Andy (Stoller) the brother of the titular owner. Andy informs her that she will be hired back at $10 more per week and that a gift will be delivered to her apartment later that night. When the baby arrives, Sally is flabbergasted. She convinces a friend to help her deliver the baby back to Andy at his home on East 63rd Street.

They leave the baby in the care of Andy's butler, whom Andy enlists to help him return the baby to Sally. They track her down to a dance hall where she is hoping to win a prize. Andy gets into a scuffle and gets thrown out. So he goes to Sally's apartment and waits for her there with the baby. Forced to care for the baby, Sally makes do and grows fond of him. She names the child Lucy, and Andy checks in on her from time to time.

On Christmas Eve, Andy is stood up by his date, because he had forgotten to call her earlier. He arranges for Sally's landlady to watch Lucy while they go out together. When he drops her off back at home, he jokes that she is fired so that he can kiss her.

Meanwhile, Simon and Alexis has been misinformed that they are a uncle and a aunt, mistaking John to be Andy's duaghter. She begins to make arrangements for Andy to have full custody of the child. Sally panics at the thought of losing Lucy. So she pretends that her landlady's neice, who is visiting from Harvard, is Lucy's real father. Andy produces a store employee to pretend he is the father. The ensuing confusion leads to a full confession of love from Dan and a happy union for the new family, and Alexis and Simon are convinced the girl is their neice.

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