Brian Haley, Cynthia Nixon, Fred Dalton Thomas

Only a mother or a certified baby-phile could love this John Hughes comedy (he wrote and coproduced it). Aside from that endorsement, the diaper starts to stink. Baby Bink is kidnapped by three inept ...( read more  read more... )crooks, but the child escapes from their hideaway, leading to a chase through the city. Bink's journey follows the story line of his favorite bedtime book, Baby's Day Out, and he goes to a zoo, a construction site, and a retirement center. Hughes is following his accountant's favorite bedtime tale, "Let's rewrite Home Alone again," but with very little of the humor or impact of that smash. A number of scenes center on the crushing or incineration of Joe Mantegna's groin, not exactly family-fare yuks. There are some moments of levity with the crooks and a gorilla. --Keith Simanton

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PG, 99 min.

Directed by: Patrick Read Johnson

Release Date: July 1, 1994

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DVD Release Date: January 29, 2002

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  • August 8, 2009
    Baby's Day out is pure fun. 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. I...( read more)f you liked films such as Home Alone then this movie will suit you.

    There are wonderful scenes throughout. Baby Bink escapes his captors and starts crawling round the city and oddly, not one single adult seems to think this is out of the ordinary. The fun is seeing the blundering trio try to recapture him. 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.

    Whilst children will really enjoy this movie, adults will also get a kick out of it. Worth viewing if you can.
  • February 10, 2008
    shit
  • December 24, 2007
    Didn't think half the things in this movie were real and could happen so it wasn't that great of a movie. To me it seemed like Home Alone but more with a baby this time.
  • November 2, 2007
    Made my afternoons when I was a kid but even then (with my tiny shorts, green shirt and black polished shoes in my parents' huge bed) I thought: "Ey... this is a bad movie..."
  • October 13, 2007
    Yikes.
  • November 6, 2009
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  • November 4, 2009
    If all of u dont like to watch this movie then dont watch!!!Except the two person..no need to talk bad about this movie..If u think this movie is not great,then how bout u all become the director...so smart!! If,u all have created a movie, then the movie is not interesting and no...( read more)t great,i will be the FIRST person to comment the movie...see wat happen!!!!THIS is not A COMERCIAL OR STUPID!!!! All of u is nonsense!!!
  • November 1, 2009
    Now don't get me wrong, this is as cheesy as a film can get - but as a child, I just couldn't get enough. It's not about to keep the attention of an adult audience but, I guarentee, you sit you're child down with this film and you'll have an hour and a half of blissful silence. ...( read more)It appeals to everything a small child wants in a film. I haven't seen it since childhood and if I were to tell the truth ... I wouldn't mind seeing it again now. But don't tell anyone.
  • October 29, 2009
    !Comercial or Stupid! :|
  • October 15, 2009
    just one word.. EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • Three men kidnap a baby, but when it escapes they have to chase it through the city, including through a zoo and a construction site. It's a family movie with a lot of slapstick. It also had a police officer uttering this line, "we're going back to the tick-tock to get the boo-boo."  Answer »
  • "we're going back to the tick tock to get the boo boo." What movie is this quote from?  Answer »
  • In the movie Baby's Day Out, what did baby bink refer to his favorite book as?  Answer »
  • In which movie did Joe Mantenga kidnap a baby but failed?  Answer »

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