Baby's Day Out

Baby's Day Out (1994)

  • 21% of critics liked it
    (14 reviews)

  • 54% of users liked it
    (172,172 ratings)

John Hughes sticks to his seemingly fool-proof formula for success in Baby's Day Out, a cross-pollination of Home Alone and a Swee' Pea cartoon. The plot seems all-too familiar: posing as baby photographers, a group of three would-be kidnappers (led by the usually outstanding character actor Joe… More

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PG, 1 hr. 39 min.
Directed By
Patrick Reed Johnson, Patrick Read Johnson
Written By
John Hughes
Genres
Comedy, Kids & Family
In Theaters
Jul 1, 1994 Wide
On DVD
Jan 29, 2002
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Sierra Filucci, Common Sense Media

    "Home Alone" rehash with slapstick humor, baby in peril.

  • Bill Clark, FromTheBalcony

    Unfunny slapstick farce.

  • James Sanford, Kalamazoo Gazette

    OK slapstick in the "Home Alone" vein

  • Oz, Hollywood Bitchslap

    Hey, at least the baby wasn't talking.

  • Clint Morris, Moviehole

    Tot-sized laughs

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Jeff "


    Baby's Day Out is a decent family comedy that has some good laughs, but is not one of the best John Hughes produced offerings. The film is quite entertaining, and is funny, but this isn't the type of comedy that has stood the test of time, like so many of Hughes'… More

  • Bethany M


    Love this film, it's so weird but at the same time really, really funny.

  • AJ V


    This movie is cute, sometime sickeningly so, but overall it's very funny and entertaining. I think kids will like it especially.

  • Chris W


    This isn't terrible, just kind of mediocre and a little dumb. The baby is unbearable cute and adorable though. I know that everyone needs to eat, but could they not have gotten some less well-known people instead of Mantegna and Pantoliano? It is fun to see a pre-"Sex and… More

  • KJ P


    WOW! What a stupid movie! I had me laughing when I has 5, but never again will I laugh at this extremely perfectly rated movie!

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