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'{{short description|1994 film by Patrick Read Johnson}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2018}} {{missing information|production for the film|date=January 2015}} {{Infobox film | name = Baby's Day Out | image = Babys day out poster.jpg | alt = Film poster depicting a infant in a taxi, happily watching these buildings. The title "Baby's Day Out", a text "When the big city called, he had to answer. Born to go wild.", the names of the cast, director, producer, music composer and a release date appear at the bottom. | caption = Theatrical release poster | director = [[Patrick Read Johnson]] | writer = [[John Hughes (filmmaker)|John Hughes]] | producer = {{Unbulleted list|John Hughes|Richard Vane}} | starring = {{Plainlist|<!--Per poster billing--> * [[Joe Mantegna]] * [[Lara Flynn Boyle]] * [[Joe Pantoliano]] }} | cinematography = [[Thomas E. Ackerman]] | editing = David Rawlins | music = [[Bruce Broughton]] | studio = [[Hughes Entertainment|John Hughes Entertainment]] | distributor = [[20th Century Fox]] | released = {{Film date|1994|7|1|United States}} | runtime = 99 minutes<ref name="mojo">{{Cite web |title=Baby's Day Out (1994) |url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=babysdayout.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180805021713/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=babysdayout.htm |archive-date=August 5, 2018 |access-date=June 19, 2009 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |publisher=Amazon.com}}</ref> | country = [[United States]] | language = English | budget = $48 million<ref name="mojo" /> | gross = $30 million<ref name="ww">{{Cite magazine |date=October 17, 1994 |title=Top 100 grossers worldwide, '93-94 |magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |page=M-56}}</ref> }} '''''Baby's Day Out''''' is a 1994 American [[Adventure film|adventure]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Patrick Read Johnson]] and written by [[John Hughes (filmmaker)|John Hughes]], who also produced the film. Starring [[Joe Mantegna]], [[Lara Flynn Boyle]], [[Joe Pantoliano]], and [[Brian Haley]]. The plot centers on a wealthy baby's abduction by three criminals, his subsequent escape and adventure through [[Chicago]] while being pursued by the criminals. Released on July 1, 1994, by [[20th Century Fox]] in the United States, the film was a box office bomb grossing only $30 million against a $48 million budget. Despite being panned by critics, it has since become a [[cult film]].<ref name="Ebert">{{Cite web |last=Ebert |first=Roger |author-link=Roger Ebert |date=August 6, 2009 |title=John Hughes: In Memory |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/john-hughes-in-memory |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150303033840/http://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/john-hughes-in-memory |archive-date=March 3, 2015 |access-date=February 23, 2015 |website=Rogerebert.com}}</ref><ref name="Kurp">{{Cite web |last=Kurp |first=Joshua |date=September 28, 2011 |title=The Legacy of Baby's Day Out, the Only Comedy Movie I've Ever Walked Out On |url=https://www.vulture.com/2011/09/the-only-comedy-movie-ive-ever-walked-out-on.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180625141455/http://www.vulture.com/2011/09/the-only-comedy-movie-ive-ever-walked-out-on.html |archive-date=June 25, 2018 |access-date=June 25, 2018 |website=[[Vulture.com|Vulture]]}}</ref> ==Plot== Bennington Austin "Bink" Cotwell IV, the infant son of socialites Laraine and Bennington Austin "Bing" Cotwell III, lives in a mansion in a suburb of [[Chicago]] and is just about to appear in the social pages of the newspaper. Three very clumsy criminals, Edgar "Eddie" Mauser, Norbert "Norby" LeBlaw, and Victor "Veeko" Riley, disguise themselves as baby photographers from the newspaper and kidnap him, demanding a $5 million ransom. After the kidnapping, however, the criminals have difficulty controlling Bink at their apartment. Norby attempts to put him to sleep by reading his favorite storybook, ''Baby's Day Out'' (or "Boo-boo", as he calls it), only to fall asleep himself from boredom, leaving Bink unattended. Looking through the book, Bink notices a bird on the page and then one by the window; he follows it out and successfully gets away from his kidnappers. The ensuing chase culminates in Eddie falling off the building and into a garbage bin. Norby and Veeko rescue him, and they begin pursuing Bink across the city. The [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] arrives at the mansion, headed by Dale Grissom, where they try to piece together clues along with Bink's parents and his nanny, Gilbertine. Meanwhile, Bink, now outside on the ground and crawling about, finds another part of his book – the blue bus, which he then boards. The criminals realize he is escaping and start chasing the bus in their van, but their efforts are in vain. Meanwhile, on the bus, Bink crawls into the bag of an obese lady who gets off at her stop shortly afterward. By the time the criminals catch the bus, they realize Bink is not on board and follow the lady, leading to a physical altercation after she catches them. In the distraction, Bink crawls up to a revolving door at the entrance to a department store and is forced inwards by its momentum. He is stopped by an employee who works for the store's day care center, believing he is another baby who escaped from there. He then escapes from the store and eventually crawls into traffic after a ride on a taxi. The criminals attempt to follow him, but keep getting injured in the process as he makes his way to the city zoo. They are shocked to find him in the ape house with a [[western lowland gorilla]], which shows a paternal side and does not injure him. The gorilla also feeds Bink with some of its fruits. The criminals try to retrieve him, but the gorilla notices them; it pounds Veeko's hand, throws Norby into the air using a mop as a [[catapult]], and hurls Eddie against the bars of another nearby cage. The criminals corner and catch Bink in the zoo's park, but are confronted by two chatty police officers, who have noticed that their van's engine is still running. During the conversation, Eddie hides Bink under his coat in his lap, but Bink reaches his cigarette lighter, setting his groin on fire and sneaking off as soon as the officers are gone. Veeko extinguishes the fire by stomping repeatedly on Eddie's groin. They then follow Bink to a construction site where they experience several near-death mishaps such as Veeko getting thrown off the building and into the back of a garbage truck, Norby falling into a vat of wet cement, and Eddie getting stranded on a [[Crane (machine)|crane]] after being drenched in glue. The sun then sets as Bink and the construction crew leave the site. After managing to escape, the criminals give up on catching Bink and return home. Bink's parents are notified of various sightings of him in the city and Gilbertine deduces that he has been following ''Baby's Day Out'', and will most likely head for the [[Old soldiers' home|Old Soldiers' Home]] next. Sure enough, Bink has made his way inside the home, where the elderly residents entertain him with a rendition of [[Irving Berlin]]'s "This Is the Army, Mr. Jones." Laraine and Bing run in and joyously embrace Bink. On the way home, he begins to call out for his "Boo-Boo" toward the criminals' [[apartment|flat]]. The recuperating criminals, upon hearing Bink calling out for his book, realize that he has returned, and upon looking out the window, to their shock, they find themselves surrounded by the FBI, who have arrived to arrest them, and also find Bink and his parents standing outside the building as well. As Eddie berates Bink for ratting them out, Grissom forces the criminals to return Bink's book. Back at home, Bink is put to bed by his parents, who discuss having his picture taken by a normal photographer in the morning while, unbeknownst to them, he wakes up and gets ready to read another book titled ''Baby's Trip to China''. ==Cast== * Adam Robert Worton and Jacob Joseph Worton as Bennington Austin "Bink" Cotwell IV ** [[Verne Troyer]] as Bink's [[Double (occupation)#Stunt double|stunt double]]. * [[Joe Mantegna]] as Edgar "Eddie" Mauser * [[Joe Pantoliano]] as Norbert "Norby" LeBlaw * [[Brian Haley]] as Victor "Veeko" Riley * [[Lara Flynn Boyle]] as Laraine Cotwell * [[Matthew Glave]] as Bennington Austin "Bing" Cotwell III * [[Cynthia Nixon]] as Gilbertine * [[Fred Thompson]] as FBI Agent Dale Grissom * [[John Neville (actor)|John Neville]] as Mr. Andrews * Robin Baber as the fat lady * Trevor Dalton as Norm * [[Eddie Bracken]] as Old Soldier * {{ill|Dawn Maxey|azb|داون مکسی|fa|داون مکسی}} as Teenage Employee * [[Anna Thomson]] as Mrs. McCray * John Alexander as the gorilla's in-suit performer ** Jugen Heimann, Tom Hester, Mark Setrakian, and Marc L. Taylor assisted in the gorilla's face performance * [[Neil Flynn]] and William Homes as the cops in the park * [[Mike Starr (actor)|Mike Starr]] as Jojo Ducky (uncredited) ==Production== ''Baby's Day Out'' was filmed in [[Chicago, Illinois]], and [[Los Angeles, California]] on August 17 - December 16, 1993, and featured one of the earliest fully computer-generated 3D cityscapes which was a challenge for [[Industrial Light & Magic|Industrial Light and Magic]]. Senior digital artist Henry LaBounta said: “We had to have a CG city – Chicago – for those shots where the baby’s looking down from the crane. I was the guy that was going to be making that city. And I was like, I just started here." Visual Effects Supervisor [[John Knoll]] responded "Yeah, but you’re the 3D expert guy," causing LaBounta to realize that he was coming in on his first show as one of the experts on the team, as most of the people he was working with only had experience with 2D compositing.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hoare |first=James |date=2022-07-22 |title=CGI Fridays: Henry LaBounta Turned Down Star Wars for Steven Spielberg |url=https://www.thecompanion.app/2022/07/22/cgi-fridays-henry-labounta-turned-down-star-wars-for-steven-spielberg/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220731114533/https://www.thecompanion.app/2022/07/22/cgi-fridays-henry-labounta-turned-down-star-wars-for-steven-spielberg/ |archive-date=2022-07-31 |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=The Companion |language=en-GB}}</ref> ==Reception== ===Critical response=== The film was panned by critics. On [[Rotten Tomatoes]], it has a "Rotten" score of 19% based on 16 reviews with an average rating of 4.2/10.<ref>{{rotten-tomatoes|babys_day_out}}</ref> Audiences polled by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Home |url=https://www.cinemascore.com/ |access-date=2022-11-30 |website=CinemaScore |language=en-US}}</ref> Critic [[Roger Ebert]] wrote that "''Baby's Day Out'' contains gags that might have worked in a [[Who Framed Roger Rabbit#Characters|Baby Herman]] cartoon, but in live action, with real people, taxis, buses, streets, and a real baby, they're just not funny. The Worton twins are adorable as Baby Bink, however; the audience produced an audible coo the first time they saw him on the screen." He gave the film one-and-a-half stars out of four.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ebert |first=Roger |author-link=Roger Ebert |date=July 1, 1994 |title=Baby's Day Out review |work=rogerebert.com |publisher=[[Chicago Sun Times]] |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/babys-day-out-1994 |url-status=live |access-date=November 22, 2021 }}</ref> However, his partner on the ''[[At the Movies (1986 TV program)|Siskel & Ebert]]'' show, [[Gene Siskel]], liked it and called it an "absolute perfect child's-eye view of the fantasies that they might have."<ref name="siskelebert">{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e1txr5XloM |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/3e1txr5XloM| archive-date=2021-12-12|title=Siskel & Ebert: Baby's Day Out (Year 1994) |date=March 5, 2010 |access-date=March 10, 2021 |url-status=live |via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref> [[Hal Hinson]], writing for the ''[[The Washington Post|Washington Post]]'', wrote: "The pace is quick and efficient but never frantic...almost everything in the picture is just right, including the two-bit crooks who abduct the superhero toddler and end up bruised and begging hilariously for mercy. Best of all, though, is the Binkman himself, whose tiny face is so expressive that he brings new meaning to the phrase 'conquering with a smile.'"<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hinson |first=Hal |author-link=Hal Hinson |date=July 1, 1994 |title='Baby's Day Out' |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/babysdayoutpghinson_b00847.htm |url-status=live |access-date=June 19, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110042635/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/babysdayoutpghinson_b00847.htm |archive-date=November 10, 2012}}</ref> ===Box office=== The film opened with takings of $4,044,662 at the start of July 1994.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Weekend Box Office Results for July 1–4, 1994 |url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?view=&yr=1994&wknd=26a&p=.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606163050/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?view=&yr=1994&wknd=26a&p=.htm |archive-date=June 6, 2011 |access-date=June 19, 2009 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |publisher=Amazon.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=July 7, 1994 |title=Fourth of July Weekend Box Office |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |url=http://articles.latimes.com/1994-07-07/entertainment/ca-12776_1_weekend-gross |url-status=live |access-date=January 12, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104190918/http://articles.latimes.com/1994-07-07/entertainment/ca-12776_1_weekend-gross |archive-date=November 4, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Baby's Day Out&nbsp;– Box Office Data |url=http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1994/0BBDO.php |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090523044722/http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1994/0BBDO.php |archive-date=May 23, 2009 |access-date=June 19, 2009 |website=thenumbers.com |publisher=The Numbers}}</ref> It finally grossed $16,827,402 at the box office in the United States and Canada and $13.4 million internationally,<ref name=ww/> for a worldwide total of $30.2 million, a disappointing return considering the $48 million production budget. ===Year-end lists=== * 1st worst&nbsp;– Melinda Miller, ''[[The Buffalo News]]''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Simon |first=Jeff |date=January 1, 1995 |title=Movies: Once More, with Feeling |url=https://buffalonews.com/news/movies-once-more-with-feeling/article_b73e9a1a-9f60-5d7a-a05c-289243ba0483.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200719132904/https://buffalonews.com/news/movies-once-more-with-feeling/article_b73e9a1a-9f60-5d7a-a05c-289243ba0483.html |archive-date=July 19, 2020 |access-date=July 19, 2020 |website=[[The Buffalo News]]}}</ref> * Top 10 worst (not ranked)&nbsp;– Dan Webster, ''[[The Spokesman-Review]]''<ref>{{Cite news |last=Webster |first=Dan |date=January 1, 1995 |title=In Year of Disappointments, Some Movies Still Delivered |url=https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1995/jan/01/in-year-of-disappointments-some-movies-still/ |access-date=2023-05-12 |edition=Spokane |page=2 |work=[[The Spokesman-Review]]}}</ref> ===Popularity in India and remakes=== The film was popular in [[India]] and Pakistan .<ref name="Ebert" /> The owner of a large Kolkata theater told Roger Ebert in 1999 that it was the most successful film at his theater, running full for more than 17 weeks.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ebert |first1=Roger |author1-link=Roger Ebert |title=Report from Calcutta |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/report-from-calcutta |access-date=1 December 2021 |language=en |date=15 November 1999}}</ref> It was remade in [[Telugu language|Telugu]] in 1995 under the title ''[[Sisindri]]'', in Hindi as ''[[Ek Phool Teen Kante]]'' in 1997, the Telugu version was then remade in [[Malayalam]] in 1999 as ''[[James Bond (1999 film)|James Bond]]''.<ref name="Kurp" /> In Sri Lanka 2002, the Sinhalese version was titled [[Onna Babo]]. ==Remakes== {| class="wikitable" |+{{Unreferenced section|date=November 2021}} !Year !Movie !Language !Notes |- |1995 |''[[Sisindri]]'' |Telugu |Starring [[Nagarjuna Akkineni]] |- |1997 |''[[Ek Phool Teen Kante]]'' |Hindi |Starring [[Kader Khan]] |- |1999 |''[[James Bond (1999 film)|James Bond]]'' |Malayalam |Starring [[Prem Kumar (Malayalam actor)|Prem Kumar]] |} ==Cancelled video game== A video game adaptation of the film was planned, completed and slated to be released on [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System]], [[Sega Genesis]], and [[Game Boy]] in October 1994,<ref>{{Cite web |last=videoreviewchris |date=August 6, 2013 |title=Baby's Day Out-Video Game Trailer |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5OZ9ILeT24 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150414061331/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5OZ9ILeT24 |archive-date=April 14, 2015 |access-date=November 26, 2014 |website=YouTube}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |date=November 1994 |title=ProReview: Baby's Day Out |page=104 |magazine=[[GamePro]] |publisher=[[International Data Group|IDG]] |issue=64}}</ref> but was canceled shortly before release. Instead of playing as Bink, the player would have controlled his [[guardian angel]] in order to guide him to safety in the vein of ''[[Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures]].'' Despite its cancellation, an advertisement for the game is included on the film's VHS release. Two [[prototypes]] of the Genesis port have surfaced online in subsequent years. ==Home media== [[20th Century Fox Home Entertainment]] released the film on [[VHS]] on April 4, 1995, and on DVD on January 29, 2002. Special features include Patrick Read Johnson's commentary, a [[featurette]] and a [[Trailer (promotion)|trailer]] for it. It was re-released on [[DVD]] on October 11, 2011. ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== {{wikiquote}} {{Portal|United States|Film|1990s}} * {{IMDb title|0109190}} * [http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/babys_day_out/ ''Baby's Day Out''] at [[Rotten Tomatoes]] * {{AllMovie title|131216}} {{Patrick Read Johnson}} {{John Hughes}} [[Category:1990s chase films]] [[Category:1990s children's comedy films]] [[Category:1990s crime comedy films]] [[Category:1994 comedy films]] [[Category:20th Century Fox films]] [[Category:American chase films]] [[Category:American children's comedy films]] [[Category:American crime comedy films]] [[Category:American slapstick comedy films]] [[Category:1990s English-language films]] [[Category:Films about babies]] [[Category:Films about child abduction in the United States]] [[Category:Films about criminals]] [[Category:Films about dysfunctional families]] [[Category:Films about nannies]] [[Category:Films directed by Patrick Read Johnson]] [[Category:Films produced by John Hughes (filmmaker)]] [[Category:Films scored by Bruce Broughton]] [[Category:Films set in Chicago]] [[Category:Films set in zoos]] [[Category:Films shot in Chicago]] [[Category:Films with screenplays by John Hughes (filmmaker)]] [[Category:1990s American films]]'