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expand the final fifteen minutes of home alone into a feature-length film and you've got baby's day out--an agreeably amusing children's comedy about a bumbling band of kid kidnappers who are unwittingly outwitted by an innocent infant .
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the plot tracks a trio of crooks-posed-as-photographers ( mantegna , pantoliano , haley ) who steal nine-month-old bennington august cottwell iv , aka baby bink , from his old-money home .
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but the plan goes awry when baby crawls out an open window and into the streets of downtown chicago !
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following the path of his favorite story , called " baby's day out , " baby rides a bus and visits the zoo and winds up at a skyscraper construction site .
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while baby stays unscathed , the crooks fare worse for the wear .
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the stooges get hit by boards and dropped from roofs and , of course , suffer multiple crotch injuries .
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( john wayne bobbitt should probably steer clear of this one . )
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like he did in planes , trains , and automobiles , john hughes again demonstrates his mastery of the simple set-up and extended execution .
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here , he's aided and abetted by a director , patrick read johnson , whose choreography could rival a coen brother .
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best bit : baby crawling across a busy city street .
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baby's day out has only two emotions--awww and ouch--and the actors play them accordingly .
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forget the cartoon concern of lara flynn boyle or cynthia nixon , disposable as mom and nanny , respectively , the ones to watch are the ones who are wincing .
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joe mantegna is a great head stooge , barking lines like " that little doo-doo machine is my retirement money . "
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brian haley has a great scene with a gorilla , while joe pantolianto plays curly to mantegna's moe .
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* he * is funny .
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needless to say , twins adam and jacob warton are adorable beyond belief .
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