| Bye Bye Baby | |
| Screenplay: | Liliane Betti Paolo Costella Enrico Oldoini |
| Starring: | Brigitte Nielsen Carol Alt Luca Barbareschi Jason Connery |
| Director: | Enrico Oldoini |
| Producer: | Pio Andretti Adriano De Micheli |
| Cinematography: | Giuseppe Ruzzolini |
| Music: | Manuel De Sica |
| Editing: | Raimondo Crociani |
| Runtime: | 85 minutes |
| Country: | Italy |
| Language: | Italian |
Bye Bye Baby is a 1988 Italian romantic comedy film directed by Enrico Oldoini. The film starred Brigitte Nielsen and Carol Alt. It is one of the few films to feature five-pin billiards on-screen in any detail.[1]
A couple from Milan, Sandra and Paolo, engage in a series of extramarital affairs, reconciliations, escapades, and eventual divorce, beginning during a vacation to Mauritius. Sandra becomes involved with a handsome doctor, Marcello, while Paolo falls for Lisa, a professional billiards player.
Brigitte Nielsen was nominated for a Golden Raspberry ("Razzie") for Worst Actress at the 10th Golden Raspberry Awards, where she ended up losing to Heather Locklear for The Return of Swamp Thing.[2]
Los Angeles Times panned the film as thematically repetitive, "daringly banal", and a failure as a sex farce because so little of it is actually comedic.[3] Billiards film review site 8 Ball on the Silver Screen also criticized the film for its unbelievable billiards scenes that indicated no training of Nielsen for the role.