Production Information
Title: THE THREE STOOGES MOVIE
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Running Time: 92 Min

Thirty-five years in the past, the children at the Sisters of Mercy Orphanage are playing soccer with an old soda can in the frontyard. Sister Mary-Mengele, the meanest and strictest nun in the orphanage, tells them to go inside and do their chores. They try singing “Everybody is Special”, but she tells them to shut up and go work. Later, three destructive infants, Moe, Larry and Curly, are thrown in a duffel bag onto the orphanage’s doorstep from an unknown person’s car. The trio subsequently wreaks havoc in the place, terrifying the nuns—especially Sister Mary-Mengele, who has always hated them.

Ten years later, desperate to be rid of the three, the nuns tell a prospectively adoptive couple that the trio are the only three children available. They’re then forced to add a fourth for consideration when a boy named Teddy wanders into the room. The couple, the Harters, decides to pick Moe; but when he requests that Larry and Curly join him, they take him back to the orphanage and choose Teddy instead. Hiding his true motives, Moe tells Larry and Curly that he came back because the Harters were only going to make him do chores.

Twenty-five years later, in the present, the trio are adults, still living at the orphanage and working as maintenance men. Monsignor Ratliffe arrives and tells Mother Superior that the orphanage must be closed, and she tells Sister Mary-Mengele to fetch the trio. The three are trying to fix the malfunctioning bell on the roof; but when Larry removes the bell’s “DO NOT REMOVE” tag (misreading it as “Donut Remover”), it falls and injures Sister Mary-Mengele just as she arrives. When they go to the Mother Superior, another accident causes Monsignor Ratliffe to fall on top of the nuns. Moe, Larry and Curly, thinking he is “getting fresh” with the nuns, attack him, until Mother Superior stops them. Ratliffe will not adopt them either as he is on official business.

Mother Superior tells everyone that the orphanage must close at the end of the month. Ratliffe tells the nuns they will be spread around the diocese and the children will be sent to foster homes unless they can raise $830,000 in 30 days. The trio volunteers to try to raise the money. Some of the nuns think they can’t succeed, as they know only nuns and kids, but Mother Superior thinks otherwise.

Directed by	Peter Farrelly Bobby Farrelly
Produced by	Peter Farrelly Bobby Farrelly Bradley Thomas Charles B. Wessler
Written by	Mike Cerrone Peter Farrelly Bobby Farrelly
Starring	Sean Hayes Will Sasso Chris Diamantopoulos Jane Lynch Sofía Vergara Jennifer Hudson Craig Bierko Larry David
Music by	John Debney
Cinematography	Matthew F. Leonetti
Edited by	Sam Seig