Baby's Day Out (1994)

After three kidnappers lose the baby they have kidnapped, both the cops and kidnappers go looking for the baby.

Director:

Patrick Read Johnson

Writer:

John Hughes

Stars:

Lara Flynn Boyle, Joe Mantegna, Joe Pantoliano

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Joe Mantegna	...	Eddie
Lara Flynn Boyle	...	Laraine Cotwell
Joe Pantoliano	...	Norby
Brian Haley	...	Veeko
Cynthia Nixon	...	Gilbertine
Fred Dalton Thompson	...	FBI Agent Dale Grissom
John Neville	...	Mr. Andrews
Matthew Glave	...	Bennington Cotwell
Adam Robert Worton	...	Baby Bink #1
Jacob Joseph Worton	...	Baby Bink #2
Brigid Duffy	...	Sally
Guy Hadley	...	FBI Agent
Eddie Bracken	...	Old Timer
Kenneth L. Jordahl	...	Old Soldier #1
Raymond Henders	...	Old Soldier #2

Storyline

Baby Bink couldn't ask for more; he has adoring (if somewhat sickly-sweet) parents, he lives in a huge mansion, and he's just about to appear in the social pages of the paper. Unfortunately, not everyone in the world is as nice as Baby Bink's parents; especially the three enterprising kidnappers who pretend to be photographers from the newspaper. Successfully kidnapping Baby Bink, they have a harder time keeping hold of the rascal, who not only keeps one step ahead of them, but seems to be more than a little bit smarter than the three bumbling criminals.

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Plot Keywords:

babies | mother | father | baby | kidnapping | 

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Taglines:

Born to go wild!

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Genres:

Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Family

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG for mild language and comic action

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

1 July 1994 (USA)

Also Known As:

Agarrem Esse Bebé

Filming Locations:

20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$50,000,000 (estimated)

Gross USA:

$16,671,505

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$27,371,505

Company Credits

Production Co:

Twentieth Century Fox, Hughes Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

99 min

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

When trying to act natural and not be noticed by construction crews going down the elevator, Veeko (Brian Haley) goes to the 'position of attention', a facing movement among all US military branches. Brian Haley served in the Army.

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Goofs

When Eddie gets glue poured on him at the construction site, just the top of his body is covered. But in the next shot, his entire body is covered with it and it's been rubbed all over his clothes.

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Quotes

Eddie: [Baby Bink just got away from the villains again after many times, but this time by crawling into a small sewer tunnel] No problem, fellas. It ain't a hole. It's a tunnel. And what's every tunnel got?
Norby: Ooh! Don't tell me! I know, I know, I know. It's uh, uh, uh-...
Veeko: Tollbooth at the end.
Eddie: Are you always this stupid, or do you do this just to annoy me?

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Connections

References Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)

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Soundtracks

This Is The Army, Mr. Jones
Written by Irving Berlin

User Reviews

Guilty pleasure, perhaps...

...but I really love this movie! It's a pity this was released on the coattails of "Home Alone", since it's inevitably perceived as a knock-off. But the comparison is really unfair. "Home Alone" featured McCauley Culkin as annoying, precocious, and self-sufficient far beyond his years. The criminals who were his foils were reminiscent of The Three Stooges in their ineptitude. The one quality both Culkin and the criminals shared was a being mean spirited to some degree.

Baby Bink in "Baby's Day Out" is a true innocent who survives on luck while remaining adorably unaffected. His criminal foils are more reminiscent of Laurel & Hardy than The Three Stooges - cleverer and more subtle. 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.