Synopsis of “Baby's Day Out” movie and the Analysis

Baby's Day Out

Bennington Austin "Bink" Cotwell Jr. (Adam and Jacob Worton), a mischievous baby who lives in a huge mansion in a suburb of Chicago with his parents Laraine (Lara Flynn Boyle) and Bennington Sr. (Matthew Glave), 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) disguise themselves as the photographers from the paper and kidnap him. After the kidnapping they have difficulty controlling him. While trying to get Bink to fall asleep, Norby does so reading Bink's book titled "Baby's Day Out", leaving him unattended. Looking through it, Bink notices a bird on the page and then one by the open window. He follows it out and successfully gets away from his kidnappers, with Eddie falling off the building and into a garbage bin while chasing after him through the rooftop.

The FBI arrives at the mansion, headed by Dale Grissom (Fred Thompson), where they try to piece together clues along with Bink's parents and his loving nanny Gilbertine (Cynthia Nixon). Meanwhile, he, now outside on the ground and crawling about, finds another part of his book: The blue bus, which he then boards. The kidnappers realize he is missing and starts 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 afterwards. By the time the trio catches it, and realize Bink is not on board, they then realize that he crawled into the lady's bag and follow her. An altercation ensues after they insult her, and while they attempt their escape, Bink crawls up to a revolving door at the entrance to a department store (also featured in his book) and is forced inwards by its momentum.

Crawling through the department store, Bink is stopped by a worker (Dawn Maxey) who works for Mother Goose Corner, a nearby day care center, who believes he escaped from there. While unattended there, he crawls into the bottom of a stroller and is wheeled out by an unsuspecting mother, leaving the store, he crawls out from the stroller and eventually ends up in traffic. The kidnappers attempt to follow him but get their feet run over by a passing truck and jump into a giant ditch as he makes his way to the city 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 him. The kidnappers try to retrieve Baby Bink but she notices them and bashes Veeko's hand, throws Norby into the air using a mop-stick as a catapult, and hurls Eddie against the bars of the cage opposite her own.

The kidnappers eventually corner and catch Bink in the zoo's 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 he 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 repeatedly stomping on Eddie's groin, seriously hurting him. They follow Bink to a construction yard, but are still unable to catch him, with Norby falling into a vat of wet cement, Veeko getting thrown off the building and into the back of a garbage truck, 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 (off screen), but decide to give up and go home.

Bink's parents are notified of various sightings of him in the city and Gilbertine deduces that he has been following the happenings of his favorite book, (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, he begins to call out "Boo-Boo" toward the kidnappers' flat. The FBI moves in on there and arrests the three villains demanding that they return his 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.

QUESTIONS:

1.                  Where does the drama take place? Can you describe the time?

Ø    There are three places where was the whole events of the drama happened.

·                     In the Bink’s house (Chicago)

The story begun, when Bennington Austin "Bink" Cotwell Jr. (Adam and Jacob Worton), a mischievous baby who lives in a huge mansion in a suburb of Chicago with his parents Laraine (Lara Flynn Boyle) and Bennington Sr. (Matthew Glave), is just about to appear in the social pages of the newspaper. Three klutzy would-be kidnappers.

·                     In the department store

Bink is stopped by a worker (Dawn Maxey) who works for Mother Goose Corner, a nearby day care center, who believes he escaped from there.

·                     In the zoo park

The kidnappers eventually corner and catch Bink in the zoo's park, but are confronted by two friendly police officers, who have noticed that their van's engine is still running.

Ø    The time when the story happened in 1994 in the Chicago. The story start from in the morning until night.

2.                  What is the theme of the drama? Please give me explanations that support your answer!

In my opinion the story of Baby’s Day Out is very interesting, amazing and also entertaining. This story can make the spectators have feeling like what is ‘Bink’ thinking about. Many spectators certain have conclusions that the story is about affection between parents to their child and also about a smart baby out for an adventure.

I said that the theme of the story is about “Affection” because when baby Bink was missing his parents sad and try to find his son.

     3.    Please describes the characters and characterizations found in the drama, completed by their language style.

There are some characters in the story of  Baby’s Day Out  those are:

1.Bink: Bink is a smart baby, he is always can slip off his self when the kidnappers try to chase. Bink is always uses gesture and mimic to express his feeling.

2.    Laraine and Bennington Sr.(Bink’s parents) :they are kind hearted person and they are always spends their time with Bink.  They love Bink very much. They are always use good and respectful language(formal language).

3.   The kidnappers:"Eddie","Norby" and "Veeko" they are a kidnappers. They always try to chase Bink. In the story they are always use bad language and bad behaviors.

6.   Dawn Maxey (the young worker, mother goose corner): she is kind. She uses good language(formal language)

    There are some characteristics in the story of Baby’s Day Out:

1.    Protagonist Characters:   Laraine and Bennington Sr.(Bink’s parents)

2.    Antagonist Character:, The kidnappers

4.    Please mention the sources of the drama and give explanation to support your answer!

The real Baby’s Day Out was born in America Serikat on 1 July 1994. The writer of this story is John Hughes and produced by Richard Vane and John Hughes. From  information that I can found in the movie so I can say that the source of the story are in the 3  places firstly in the Bink’s House, in the zoo park and the last in the department store. In this place there are some occurrence that make the story more interesting.

5.    Please describe the rising action, climax, the falling action and the catastrophe of the plot?

Rising Action: when "Bink" , a mischievous baby who lives in a huge mansion in a suburb of Chicago with his parents Laraine and Bennington ,is just about to appear in the social pages of the newspaper. Three klutzy would-be kidnappers: "Eddie", "Norby" and "Veeko" disguise themselves as the photographers from the paper and kidnap him.

Climax : The FBI arrives at the mansion, where they try to piece together clues along with Bink's parents and his loving nanny Gilbertine. Meanwhile, he, now outside on the ground and crawling about, finds another part of his book: The blue bus, which he then boards. The kidnappers realize he is missing and starts 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 afterwards. By the time the trio catches it, and realize Bink is not on board, they then realize that he crawled into the lady's bag and follow her. An altercation ensues after they insult her, and while they attempt their escape, Bink crawls up to a revolving door at the entrance to a department store (also featured in his book) and is forced inwards by its momentum.

Falling Action: when Crawling through the department store, Bink is stopped by a worker (Dawn Maxey) who works for Mother Goose Corner, a nearby day care center, who believes he escaped from there. While unattended there, he crawls into the bottom of a stroller and is wheeled out by an unsuspecting mother, leaving the store, he crawls out from the stroller and eventually ends up in traffic. The kidnappers attempt to follow him but get their feet run over by a passing truck and jump into a giant ditch as he makes his way to the city 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 him. The kidnappers try to retrieve Baby Bink but she notices them and bashes Veeko's hand, throws Norby into the air using a mop-stick as a catapult, and hurls Eddie against the bars of the cage opposite her own.

 Catastrophe/Resolution: Bink's parents are notified of various sightings of him in the city and Gilbertine deduces that he has been following the happenings of his favorite book, (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, he begins to call out "Boo-Boo" toward the kidnappers' flat. The FBI moves in on there and arrests the three villains demanding that they return his 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.

6.    Please give your comment related to the outstanding feature of the play!

In my opinion the story tell us that “Affection and The crime will be lose” the affection between parents with their child can’t replaceable. Now I can take many things from this story, it explains that “ Affection” never die by the time and always grow up every time. And as a parents we must keep our children.