Baby's Day Out

Plot synopsis:
Bennington Austin "Bink" Cotwell IV (Adam and Jacob Worton), a mischievous baby who lives in a huge mansion with his family, is just about to appear in the social pages of the newspaper. Three criminals, Eddie, Norby, and Veeko, pose as the photographers and kidnap him, demanding a ransom. After the kidnapping, however, they have difficulty controlling him. While trying to get Bink to fall asleep, Norby does so reading Bink's book titled Baby's Day Out, leaving him unattended. Looking through it, Bink notices a pigeon on the page and then one by the open window. He follows it out and successfully gets away from his kidnappers, with Eddie falling off the building and into a garbage bin while chasing after him through the rooftop.
The FBI arrives at the mansion, headed by Dale Grissom (Fred Thompson), where they try to piece together clues along with Bink's parents and his loving nanny, Gilbertine (Cynthia Nixon).
Bink follows the story of his book by exploring the city and visiting the same locations in the same order. He crawls onto a bus, goes inside a department store and is briefly mistaken for having escaped from the care centre, stows away in a taxi and goes to the zoo, where he ends up inside a cage with a protective gorilla, and eventually a construction site. All the while, the kidnappers pursue him all over, but are unable to catch him. When they end up stuck inside the construction site after its closure for the day, they decide to give up and go home. Bink next visits the Old Soldiers' Home, where the veterans recognize him as the missing baby.
Bink's parents are notified by the FBI of various sightings of him in the city and Gilbertine deduces that he has been following the happenings of his favorite book and will most likely head for the Old Soldiers' Home next. Sure enough, they find him there, but on the way home, he begins to call out "Boo-Boo" toward the kidnappers' apartment. As the kidnappers contemplate such a humiliating defeat, they are horrified when the FBI moves in and arrests them after Grissom demands to throw down the book first.
Back home, Bink is put to bed by his family. As his parents discuss having his picture taken by a normal photographer in the morning, he wakes up and gets ready to read another book, this one entitled Baby's Trip to China.

Tags: good versus evil, flashback

Review:
But when you get a movie that is so endearingly, goofily dumb as "Baby's day Out", you can't help but love it!The plot is straight out of Cartoon Land, with a low bow in the Three Stooges' direction compliments of scripter John Hughes (surprise!).
Three of the dimmest kidnappers in history (Mantegna, Pantoliano and Haley) make the mistake of kidnapping a rich couple's little baby, who turns out to be far more resourceful than all three of them combined.
And a lot more ruthless.During the course of the day, baby Bink (Warton and Warton) leads the dumb bad guys throughout the width and breadth of Chicago and leaves them all bruised, beaten, burnt, plummeted from innumerable high drops and otherwise humiliated ("we've had the living hell torn out of us by a baby," screams Mantegna at one point).
I love this kind of movie and seeing the great Joe Mantegna take his lumps so valiantly brings a smile in itself.It's nice to play dumb once in a while.
I've seen it a couple of times and throughly enjoyed it each time, as have my guests - from kids to older folks.To movie buffs, it's kind of fun also to see Joe Pantoliano and Joe Mantegna playing roles in which profanity is at a minimum, and they are in it only for laughs.
It's basically a one-joke movie and 99 minutes is too long for that.Overall, this is a nice entertainment with a lot of laugh-out-loud scenes.
If you get a kick out of seeing a baby constantly laugh, giggle and have a great time, then you'll really love this..
The kidnappers try to catch him but seem to be always one step behind.John Hughes won't be remembered in the same way as great' filmmakers will be - but like it or not, he knows how to do this type of film with his eyes closed.
In this case, the quality shared by Baby Bink and the criminals is innocence and an underlying decency.The supporting cast is superb, led by Joe Mantegna in one of his best comic roles.If you're not too jaded to appreciate it, I highly recommend this movie..
I saw this movie five years ago and thought it was funny and then watched it again yesterday (23rd April 2006) and i think i laughed even harder!
I know that this movie is aimed at children, but the acting from the three main characters that kidnap the baby is funny!
If you like movies where young children outwit stupid grown-ups then this is the movie for you.Joe Mantegna performs wonderfully as the leader of a trio of kidnappers who kidnap Baby Bink but soon find him causing more trouble than they can handle.
If you liked films such as Home Alone then this movie will suit you.There are wonderful scenes throughout.
There are some great moments, particularly when Baby Bink ends up in the gorilla cage at the zoo and when the trio arouse the suspicions of a policeman and Joe Mantegna hides Bink under a coat on his lap.
Very cute kid, funniest scenes and non-stop comedy make this one as great movie.
"Baby's Day Out" was a HUGE money-loser...and it's sad, as it was a clever and funny film.
In so many ways, it was like "Home Alone" but with a baby instead of McCauley Culkin...combined with huge amounts of Sweetpea from Popeye cartoons.
But I also had a great time because although the movie was about a tiny baby evading some idiot criminals, it also managed to be very funny and well constructed.
If you remember that old TOM & JERRY cartoon about a baby who crawls out of home and onto the skyscraper, then chances are you know what to expect in BABY'S DAY OUT.
This is a great family film, even with all the groin jokes (i.e. baby kicks Joe Mantagna in groin, Joe's groin gets set on fire in a scene that makes me sure my son will not touch a lighter until he's 35).
Even if you can't suspend belief that a baby could do all the things this kid does, any film with Joe Pantiliano is worth seeing.
Even Home Alone 3 is better than Baby's Day Out.During the movie I actually got up, left, and smashed my head against the bathroom wall.
At least the rest of money was reasonably spent when the 2nd movie of the night showed: True Lies.Every actor in Baby's Day Out should be smacked in the face with a hammer..
If you liked films such as Home Alone then this movie will suit you.
This film is about a little baby(Bink)who gets kidnapped by kidnappers (Norby,Eddie and Veeko).
But the baby is just to clever for them and causes more trouble than the kidnappers thought.Unfortunately baby Bink escapes and now the three crooks are trying to get the baby back in order to get their money.Baby Bink has heard a book by his mother about kidnappers and he does whatever the hero does in the book and the kidnappers get all the punishment that the kidnappers get in his cartoon book.This movie is one of the best movie I have ever seen because it is an hilarious comedy..
The baby is just an ingrediant of the underlying plot and concept but the villains really make the movie worth watching.
I can't really recall if the plot was so very predictable or not but it have some tense moments despite many many flaws.Sure you've probably seen this 'baby' theme is pretty much every cartoon since Tom and Jerry but this is the only movie that implements something similar, but should certainly not be confused as exactly the same.
Strangely this movie wasn't released in Brazil until now even had been a strong success, aired a lot of times in every TV's channel and also cable TV...the movie come from the famous cartoon Coyote and Road Runner premise, well adapted by Hughes this picture has consistent performance by the baby Bink and power trio of Stooges in a stunning acting by Mantegna, Pantoliano and Haley who are defeated by the baby...amusing all time this movie are drive to all audiences and delivery every inch in laughs,this original plot has to be enhanced....watchable and remarkable movie!!Resume:First watched: 2006 / How many: 3 / Source: Cable TV-DVD-Netflix / Rating: 7.5.
John Hughes' Baby's Day Out provided plenty of slapstick laughs.
Watched this John Hughes movie with my mom on Mother's Day. It's about a baby who's kidnapped by dumb thugs played by Joe Pantoliano and Joe Mantegna.
Baby's Day Out wasn't as hilarious to me but I had laughed plenty while watching.
Feeling like a elongated Baby Hermann adventure, this movie (penned by Hughes) is possibly as close to a cartoon-style caper without the need for animation as we'll ever see.
Trouble is, I'm not a kid anymore and this movie needed to provide more than a trio of dumb crooks to muscle its way into my heart.Little baby Bink (Adam & Jacob Worton) has got things pretty cushy.
The ending also felt a bit of a let-down, especially when you realised the plot contrivance behind Bink's quest for freedom.It's certainly no classic but "Baby's Day Out" is an oddly enjoyable family film but one that only the really young will enjoy.
Baby's Day Out is hilarious movie.
I believe this movie is for audience who is between 6 - 60 years old.Baby's Day Out is hilarious movie.
It looks like just a goofy movie with kidnappers of a baby.
For those who wished those antics be done in a live action movie, with the help of CGI, this would be one of the first movie to explore this idea.While the movie offers nothing new, it does offer a moment when you were watching those cartoon in the movie and wondered what it would look like if real people are playing them along with impossible gigs and CGI.
And my girlfriend dumped me because of my poor taste in entertainment, at least that is one of the many reasons.For those who want to enjoy this movie, just stop thinking logically for once that it cannot be done by a baby to crawl through a towering construction sites and everything like that.
This movie is about a baby that gets kidnapped by 3 bumbling kidnappers that have no clue whatsoever!
Baby's Day Out is not a good movie..
Baby's Day Out is a harrowing effort to be like a kid's movie, but fails, dangerously.
The first time I watched this movie I laughed so hard my side hurt.
Their pratfalls become the stuff of legend once the movie reaches its climactic scene at a construction site where every imaginable pitfall is exposed--but always with Baby Bink emerging unscathed while the villains suffer their comic fate.It's the sort of film that must have looked good on paper, but in executing it there's no way to make any of it believable, at least for adults.
Children will probably have a good time laughing at all of the pratfalls and near escapes that the baby has without being trampled on by cars or people.It's amusing enough and works as a comedy of errors.
It is a piece of cinematic treasure that was birthed prematurely to an audience that could not possibly understand the gift they had been bestowed upon them.Homage is beautifully paid to the Three Stooges via Mantegna, Pantoliano, and Haley and is quite simply an act of brilliance on the part of John Hughes.Joe Mantegna's Oscar worthy performance as "Eddie", the brains behind the trio of baby-snatchers in this epic tale of trial and tribulation stirred a long-forgotten corner of my soul, and gives me shivers up the spine to this very day.Baby's Day Out is the crown jewel of screenplays in John Hughes's gallery of masterpieces such as "Mr. Mom", "Home Alone" 1-4, and "Beethoven" 1-5.I rest easy at night knowing that 300 years from now, Baby's Day Out with be held in the same reverence as Romeo and Juliet is today.
If you like the HOME ALONe trilogy, you will really enjoy this movie.
I would have given "Baby's Day Out" a zero rating if possible, cause the humor is worse than awful and the movie will surely put your child in an uncomfortable situation.
I've seen thousands of films since then BUT none of the comedies over the years have managed to achieve what "Baby's Day Out" did then.
kidnapping the Baby.They wish they never did, as the baby make there life so much harder, when he get way and they run around the city to find the baby and the baby puts kidnappers bad situation(funny ways)I love this movie, from start to end, made me laugh, I loved it when Joe Mantegna is trying to protect his private areas from the baby's lighter ,is one of most funniest scenes ever made.The acting is movie is great, If you liked Home Alone, you should give this try.it's a great family movie 9/10.
Baby's Day Out is one of those movies that kids like, but grown up don't regret if they watch them.
If you want to see people getting hurt, watch America's funniest Home Videos instead.I give this movie 1 out of 10.
I remember watching 'Baby's Day Out' many times as a kid.
'Baby's Day Out' centers on a wealthy baby's kidnapping by three incompetent villains, his escape and adventure through a big city while being pursued by the three kidnappers.Its a cute little film, with silly jokes.
Funny to the bone!) The story is paper thin, as Babys Day Out relies heavily on the "slip on the banana peel" jokes that will leave half the audience laughing, and the other half saying "this is stupid".
It wasn't fun watching the baby facing a few perils, a few very dangerous perils, however, the timing always seems perfect, and the child always comes out harmless.
I wonder why it failed at box office, but its great fun to watch baby moving around the city and dumb wit kidnappers failing always.
This is how I described this movie to my kids when I suggested they might like to see it, Baby Herman being something they saw in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" and "Ow!
It is NOT a baby version of Home Alone, but has it's roots back in the days of black and white cartoons, and people who didn't grow up watching the catch-the-baby-in-peril episodes of Tom and Jerry or Popeye cartoons are not as likely to enjoy this movie, which doesn't really have much more of a plot.
While exploring Hughes' work in recent years, I've seen both good and not so good movies from the late filmmaker, and was expecting this to be one of the latter, which it sadly is.Baby Bink Cotwell lives in a mansion with his loving parents, Laraine and Bennington.
To try and get him to sleep, Norby reads him the "Baby's Day Out" book, but he ends up being the one who falls asleep instead, and Bink then manages to escape through the window.
Meanwhile, FBI agents have come to help the Cotwells find their missing infant son.For a while, it looked like nothing here was going to tickle my funny bone at all, and I don't think this changed until the three antagonists get the baby to their apartment.
However, even these criminal characters aren't always funny (it's still USUALLY straight-faced, even with all the screen time the antagonists have), and lots of unfunny things happen to them during their pursuit of Baby Bink.
Three men on a mission to kidnap the baby for money goes haywire when they let their guard down for a single moment.The rest of the movie actually does play out a bit like Home Alone with the slapstick moments of the bad guys falling into pits, making a gorilla angry, falling into a barrel of cement and plenty of head whacks.On the home front, Baby Bink's mother, (Laura Flynn Boyle) is devastated and nearly drained of the events of loosing her baby.Great comedy for someone who really needs a laugh and would be more than a pleaser to the kids.Watch for cameos from Alfred Molina, Eddie Bracken and janitor Scrubs star, Neil Flynn..
I watched this movie when it was first released sometime around 1994 when the "Home Alone" series kind of stuff was the in-thing.
While I liked HOME ALONE, and I enjoy sitting through it every Christmas season (or not), seeing a couple more times as "different" films is more than too much to ask for.BABY'S DAY OUT is producer Hughes' next film with HOME ALONE as its blood-donor, and while it has its share of Hughes-esquire comedy, it never rises as anything new or absolutely entertaining.
Easily looking at these three thugs (played by Joe Mantegna, Joe Pantoliano and Brian Haley, respectively), it's easy to scrutinize their inspirations: The Three Stooges.But other than seeing these three go head-to-head (metaphorically speaking) with a baby, resulting in a series of wacky accidents meant for slapstick comedy, BABY'S DAY OUT isn't really quite as fun, or funny, as it should have been.
Baby's Day Out. This comedy from writer John Hughes enters the same territory as Home Alone, with bad guys being humiliated and hurt by the force of kids, and does it nearly as well.
Basically Baby Bink Cotwell (twins Adam Robert and Jacob Joseph Worton) has everything he needs, a huge home, a loving mother Laraine (Men in Black II's Lara Flynn Boyle) and father Bennington (Matthew Glave) and his favourite book, read loads of times, "Baby's Day Out", or "boo boo" to him.
With a cute baby and some pretty dumb crooks getting hurt and humiliated along the way, you are bound to get a few good giggles, not a bad comedy.
Joe Mantegna is fabulously funny playing both to type (a hood) and against type (broad comedy) at the same type.And the baby manages to be loveably cute without being saccharine.I laughed.
I remember one scene where the baby lit one of the crooks coats on fire which I found hilarious.This movie is a rip off version of Home Alone except it centres on a baby and not on a 11 year old kid.Lara Flynn Boyle from Men In Black 2 also stars as the Baby's mother.
Of course, Swee'pea comes through all sorts of disasters (like falling girders, busy streets, fierce zoo animals) without a mark on him, but Popeye, who constantly saves the baby from being hurt, gets put through the wringer until (sometimes but not always) he remembers to eat the plant that gives him super abilities.As for BDO itself, it's an update of the above-mentioned cartoons, plus an amalgamation of the "Home Alone" movies and even a smidgen of O'Henry's short story "The Ransom of Red Chief".
Oh, and of course the typical Three Stooges short (by the way, I'm a bit amazed that the Stooges never did a short where they had to play frazzled guardians of wandering kids, or did they?) You have to suspend tons of disbelief to enjoy this movie, like for example baby Bink shuffling about with almost nobody noticing him except his would-be kidnappers (led by frustrated Joe Mantegna) or a gorilla cage with widely spaced bars that anybody can approach too closely and too dangerously.
But with a name like "Baby's Day Out" you know it is going to be a childish, immature type picture.
"Baby's Day Out" is for sure one of all time's most underrated films.
Veeko, on the other hand, is like Marv from the same first two "Home Alone" movies: very stupid, so much that you have to sympathize with him.The baby is naturally cute and adorable.
My goodness, that scene is so infinitely hilarious that I could laugh without stopping.Overall, a movie which is fun, entertaining and unusual despite being so simple and predictable at the same time.