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The Boss Baby is a 2017 American animated comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox. Based on the 2010 picture book of the same name by Marla Frazee, it was directed by Tom McGraw from a screenplay by Michael McCullers and stars Alec Baldwin in the title role alongside Steve Buscemi, Jimmy Kimmel, Lisa Kudrow, Miles Bakshi, and Tobey Maguire. The first installment of The Boss Baby franchise, the plot follows a boy who helps his baby brother who is a secret agent in the adult love war between babies and puppies.

The Boss Baby premiered at the Miami International Film Festival on March 12, 2017, and was released in the United States on March 31. The film received mixed reviews from critics upon release, who praised its animation and voice performances but criticized the complex plot, pacing, and humor. It grossed $528 million worldwide against its $125 million budget. The film received nominations for Best Animated Feature at the Academy Awards, Annie Awards, and Golden Globes.

A Netflix television series, The Boss Baby: Back in Business, premiered on April 6, 2018, while a sequel film, The Boss Baby: Family Business, was released in theaters and Peacock on July 2, 2021. Another Netflix television series, The Boss Baby: Back in the Crib, premiered on May 19, 2022.

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In the late 1980s, 7-year-old creative Tim Templeton is surprised when his new baby brother, Boss Baby, arrives. The child wears a suit and tie and acts like a normal child around adults, but acts like an adult when adults are absent. One day, Baby holds a staff meeting with the other children under the guise of a neighborhood play date. Tim tries to record them on a tape before Baby and his friends find and chase him, destroying it. Tim is grounded until he learns to move with Baby.

Later, Baby reveals the truth about why she is in his house and where she is from. She and Tim suction a special sedative that allows them to see the baby corp, which is where babies come from. Most children go into families, but those unresponsive to tickling are sent into administration, where they are given a special baby formula that allows them to think and act like adults while remaining forever young. Baby explains that he is on a special mission to investigate the waning love of children due to puppies, and that Tim’s parents came to Templeton while working for the Puppy Co. He will leave when his mission is over. However, the boys hear that Baby’s boss is threatening to fire him if he fails, which means Baby has to stay with the Templeton family and grow up. Tim and Baby team up to prevent this.

On Take Your Kid to Work Day, parents take Tim and Baby with them to Poppy Co. While investigating, they are caught by Francis Francis, who was the CEO of Baby Corp but was fired due to old age due to lactose intolerance. He takes the baby’s formula to create a “Forever Puppy” incapable of aging, which will take all the love from the children and give him his revenge on Babycorp.

Francis takes Tim’s parents to a Las Vegas conference and leaves his brother Eugene to pose as a female nanny to watch the kids. The boys attack Eugene with fake vomit and escape with the help of the neighborhood kids. They arrive in Las Vegas, where they find Francis preparing to launch a rocket of Forever Poppies to Earth. Tim’s parents get trapped under the rocket and get burned. Tim and Baby fight Francis on a catwalk, causing him to fall into a spell that turns him back into a baby, and Eugene takes him home. Tim and Baby save Tim’s parents and get the forever pup out before the rocket launches.

Baby returns to Baby Corp and becomes CEO. BabyCorp employees erase Baby’s evidence and erase her parents’ memories. One of these workers asks Tim if he wants to forget Baby, but he refuses. Tim soon realizes that he misses Baby deeply, and invites her back, saying that she can have all the love of Tim’s parents. The child returns as a regular kid named Theodore “Ted” Templeton, realizing that love is something that grows rather than splits.

Years later, in the present day, an adult Tim and Ted tell the story to Tim’s eldest daughter, who is anxious about the arrival of her newborn baby sister. After the adults leave, the newborn girl reveals that she’s a boss baby, surprising even the older girl.

Cartoon Characters

Alec Baldwin as Theodore Lindsay “Ted” Templeton Jr./The Boss Baby, an infant with the mind of an adult, who works at Baby Corp and gains his intelligence and speaking ability from drinking a “Secret Baby Formula”.[4]
Miles Bakshi as Timothy Leslie “Tim” Templeton, Boss Baby’s 7-year-old brother.[6][7][8]
Tobey Maguire as Adult Tim, the narrator.[9]
Jimmy Kimmel as Theodore Lindsay “Ted” Templeton Sr., Janice’s husband and Tim and Ted Jr.’s father.[7]
Lisa Kudrow as Janice Templeton, Ted Sr.’s wife and Tim and Ted Jr.’s mother.[7]
Steve Buscemi as Francis E. Francis/Super Colossal Big Fat Boss Baby, the CEO of Puppy Co, the former CEO of BabyCorp and the Boss’s nemesis[7]
Conrad Vernon as Eugene Francis, Francis’s older brother and minion.
James McGrath as Wizzie, Tim’s Gandalf-esque alarm clock.
David Soren as Jimbo
Nina Zoe Bakshi as Tabitha Templeton, Tim’s daughter.
Tom McGrath as Julia Child (TV Chef)
Walt Dohrn as Photographer
James Ryan as Story Bear
Eric Bell Jr. as The Triplets
ViviAnn Yee as Staci
Edie Mirman as the Big Boss Baby, Boss Baby’s boss.
James McGrath and Joseph Izzo as Elvis impersonators
Chris Miller as Captain Ross

Box Office

Boss Baby grossed $175 million in the United States and Canada and $353 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $528 million.

The film was released on March 31, 2017, along with Ghost in the Shell and The Zookeeper’s Wife. The Boss Baby grossed $15.5 million on its first day, including $1.5 million from Thursday night previews. The film then grossed $50 million in its opening weekend from 3,773 theaters. Its second weekend grosses fell 47% to $26.3 million, followed by another $15.9 million in its third weekend. The Boss Baby completed its theatrical run in the United States and Canada on November 2, 2017.

About

Directed by	Tom McGrath
Written by	Michael McCullers
Based on	The Boss Baby by Marla Frazee
Produced by	Ramsey Ann Naito
Starring	·         Alec Baldwin ·         Steve Buscemi ·         Jimmy Kimmel ·         Lisa Kudrow ·         Miles Bakshi ·         Tobey Maguire
Edited by	James Ryan
Music by	·         Hans Zimmer ·         Steve Mazzaro
Production company	DreamWorks Animation
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release dates	·         March 12, 2017 (Miami) ·         March 31, 2017 (United States)
Running time	97 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$125 million
Box office	$528 million

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