Baby's Day Out is a 1994 American adventure comedy film directed by Patrick Read Johnson and written by John Hughes, who also served as producer.

Three very clumsy criminals, Edgar "Eddie" Mauser, Norbert "Norby" LeBlaw, and Victor "Veeko" Riley, disguise themselves as baby photographers from the newspaper and kidnap Bink, demanding a ransom of $5 million.

Norby attempts to put him to sleep by reading his favourite storybook, Baby's Day Out (or "Boo-Boo" as he calls it), only to fall asleep himself from boredom, leaving Bink unattended.

The 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.

They are shocked to find him in the ape house with a western lowland gorilla, who shows a friendly and paternal side and does not injure him.

The criminals attempt to retrieve him, but the gorilla notices them by pounding Veeko's hand, throwing Norby into the air using a mop as a catapult and finally grabbing Eddie close against the bars by roaring at him with intense volume and hurling him across to another 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.

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 after being hit by a hammer and drenched in glue.

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 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.

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.

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 and Magic.

"[9] Hal Hinson, writing for the 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.

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.

Two prototypes of the Sega Genesis port have surfaced online in subsequent years, but the GameBoy and Super NES versions are still lost for now.