Baby's Day Out - 1994

Baby Bink Cotwell (Adam Robert and Jacob Joseph Worton), the eponymous baby, has adoring parents Laraine (Lara Flynn Boyle and Bennington (Matthew Glave), lives in a huge mansion in a suburb of Chicago, and is just about to appear in the social pages of the newspaper. Three klutzy, would-be kidnappers: Edgar "Eddie" Mauser (Joe Mantegna), Norbert "Norby" LeBlaw (Joe Pantoliano), and Victor "Veeko" Riley (Brian Haley), the main antagonists, disguise themselves as the photographers from the paper and kidnap Bink. After the kidnapping they have difficulty controlling him. In the trial of trying to get him to fall asleep Norby does so reading Bink's book, leaving him unattended. Looking through his book he notices a bird on the page and then by the window. He follows the bird out the window and successfully gets away from his kidnappers, with Eddie falling off the building and into a garbage bin.

The FBI arrives at the mansion, headed by Dale Grissom (Fred Dalton Thompson), where they try to piece together clues along with Bink's parents and his loving nanny Gilbertine (Cynthia Nixon). Meanwhile, Bink, now outside on the ground and crawling about, finds another part of his storybook, the blue bus, which he then boards. The kidnappers realize he is missing and start chasing the bus in their van - their efforts are in vain. Meanwhile on the bus Bink crawls into the bag of an obese lady who leaves the bus at her stop shortly afterwards. By the time the trio catches the bus, and realize Bink is not onboard, the trio than realizes that he has crawled into the lady's bag and follows her. An altercation ensues after the kidnappers insult her, and while the three attempt their escape, Bink crawls up to a revolving door at the entrance to a department store and is forced inwards by the door's momentum.

Crawling through the department store, Bink is stopped by a worker who works for Mother Goose Corner, a nearby day care center, who believes he is another baby who escaped from there. He later escapes Mother Goose Corner and the store and eventually crawls into traffic. The kidnappers attempt to follow him but keep getting injured in the process as he makes his way to a nearby zoo. They find him in the primate house with a gorilla and lose hope of gaining their ransom money. The gorilla shows a maternal side and does not injure Bink. The kidnappers try to retrieve him but the gorilla notices and bashes Veeko's hand, throws Norby into the air using a mopstick as a catapult, and hurls Eddie against the bars of the cage opposite the gorilla's.

The kidnappers eventually corner and catch Bink in a park, but are confronted by two friendly 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 Eddie's cigarette lighter, sets his crotch on fire and sneaks off as soon as the officers are gone. Veeko extinguishes the fire by stomping repeatedly on Eddie's groin. They follow Bink to a construction yard, but are still unable to catch him, with 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 after being drenched in glue. The sun sets as Bink leaves the construction yard. The kidnappers manage to escape (offscreen), but decide to give up and go home.

Bink's family is notified of various sightings of him in the city and his nanny deduces that he has been following his favorite storybook, "Baby's Day Out" (or "Boo-Boo", as Bink calls it) and will most likely head for the Old Soldiers' Home next. Sure enough, they find him there, but on the way home, Bink begins to call out "Boo-Boo" toward the kidnappers' flat. The FBI moves in on there and arrests Eddie, Veeko, and Norby demanding that they return Bink's 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".