Movie Review: ****^The Hunt for Red October (1990)

This is early in the career of Jack Ryan (Alec Baldwin).  He is pulled into a case because of his knowledge of Russian Captain Ramius (Sean Connery).  A year after the death of his wife, Ramius plans to defect to America, with a new submarine that does not make noise.  Admiral Greer (James Earl Jones) is retired Navy and CIA director and Ryan's boss.  Most of the officers aboard the Red October, Ramius' submarine are in on the plot.  The crew is not.  Captain Borodin (S
am Neill) supports him and wants to visit America.  They have to get the crew off, and convince them the Red October has been destroyed so the Americans can take the ship and study it.  The medical officer on the ship is Dr. Petrov (Tim Curry).  Admiral Painter (Fred Thompson) is the commander aboard an aircraft carrier Ryan sees on his way to get to the submarine tracking the Red October captained by Bart Mancuso (Scott Glen).  They are able make contact through periscopes, and then actually visit.  There is a problem in a saboteur aboard the Red October.

Lots of good excitement and intrigue as Ramius tries to defect without someone killing him; either American or Russian.

Movie Review: Baby's Day Out

In this movie Baby Bink is played by twins, Adam and Jacob Worton, and is so cute his smile carries the show.  Three kidnappers, pretend photographers, run off with the baby, Eddie, Norby and Veeko (Joe Mantegna, Joe Pantoliano and Brian Haley).  This is a baby vs three bumbling crooks movie, with the baby being one step ahead throughout.  The kidnapping goes well, but then the baby crawls out the window, and is on his way to many adventures.  His parents (Laura Flynn Boyle and Mathew Glave) are of course heart broken and worried, and do all in the power to get him back.  Fred Thompson plays the head of the FBI.  The nanny (Cynthia Nixon) has been reading the same book to the baby every day for 100s of times, Baby's Day Out.  The baby goes on many adventures, visiting pages from the book, including a taxi ride, a bus ride, to the zoo (where a gorilla befriends him) to the park, to a construction site, and finally to the old soldier's home.  It is when the nanny hears where she has been, that she realizes he is reenacting the book, and knows where he will be next.  Baby comes home safe, and when the baby sees where his book is, the kidnappers had taken it to calm him down, the police are turned on to the location, and they are caught as well.
This book is fun.  It puts the baby in horrifying situations, but all comes out right in the end.  The charm of the movie is how baby escapes so many close calls, while the kidnapper, trying to recapture him, always fail and get beat up as a result.  Written by John Hughes.