<P> The Three Stooges (also known as The Three Stooges: The Movie) is a 2012 American slapstick comedy film based on the film shorts of the mid-20th century comedy trio of the same name . The film was produced, written and directed by the Farrelly brothers and co-written by Mike Cerrone . It stars Chris Diamantopoulos, Sean Hayes, and Will Sasso, re-creating the eponymous characters played by Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard . The film's story places the Stooges in a modern setting . After over a decade of casting problems, principal photography took place from May to July 2011 . The film was released on April 13, 2012 . </P> <P> The film is composed of three acts, which are referred to as episodes (a reference to how the original Three Stooges short films were packaged for television by Columbia Pictures). </P> <P> In 1977, the children at the Sisters of Mercy Orphanage are playing soccer with an old soda can in the front yard . But then, Sister Mary - Mengele (Larry David), the meanest & strictest nun in the orphanage gets their attention by telling them to go inside & do their work . The kids sing "Everybody is Special", but she tells them to shut up & go to work . Later, Moe, Larry and Curly are dumped on the doorstep of the orphanage from an unknown person's car as babies . Ever since, the trio have wreaked havoc in the place, leaving the nuns who run it utterly terrified, especially Sister Mary - Mengele who has always hated the trio . Ten years later, in 1987, out of desperation, when a prospective couple comes to adopt, the exasperated nuns bring out the trio as being the only three available, eventually adding a fourth when another boy, Teddy, enters the picture . The couple, the Harters (Stephen Collins & Carly Craig), decides to pick Moe, but when he requests Larry & Curly to join him, he is dropped back off at the orphanage, & they choose Teddy instead . </P> <P> 25 years later in 2012, the trio (Chris Diamantopoulos, Sean Hayes and Will Sasso) are adults & are still living at the orphanage & working as janitors . Monsignor Ratliffe (Brian Doyle - Murray) arrives to give everyone an important message . After Monsignor Ratliffe tells Mother Superior (Jane Lynch) that the orphanage is going to close, she tells Sister Mary - Mengele to get the trio . Sister Mary - Mengele demands Mother Superior to tell them who's responsible for the foreclosure of the orphanage, but Mother Superior tells her to just tell them what they need to hear . However, the three stooges injure Sister Mary - Mengele after she tells them that Mother Superior needs them . They head to Mother Superior until they cause Monsignor Ratliffe to fall on top of the nuns . Monsignor Ratliffe gets attacked by Moe, Larry and Curly, who think that Monsignor Ratliffe was making out with the nuns . Monsignor Ratliffe is not going to adopt any of them either, as he is on official business . Curly says "Official business?! Why didn't you say so?" & they take off their blue worksuits revealing their shirts & shorts and present themselves to be adopted . When they are informed that the orphanage will be forced to close down unless they can come up with $830,000 in 30 days, the trio volunteers to go out and try to raise the money somehow . Sister Rosemary (Jennifer Hudson) and the Stooges sing "This Little Light of Mine", but Sister Mary - Mengele tells them to shut up & tells them it is an orphanage & not a revival . Some of the nuns think that the trio will not be able to succeed because the only people they know are nuns & kids, but Mother Superior thinks otherwise . </P>

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