Adventures in Babysitting
starring: Elisabeth Shue, Maia Brewton, Keith Coogan, Anthony Rapp, Calvin Levels
directed by: Chris Columbus
directed by: Chris Columbus
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Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: ADV
EAN: 9786305428053
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0788816888
Label: Buena Vista Pictures
Manufacturer: Buena Vista Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Buena Vista Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 18, 2000
Running Time: 102 minutes
Sales Rank: 1234
Studio: Buena Vista Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: July 01, 1987
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Description:
Chris Parker (Elisabeth Shue) agrees to babysit after her 'dream' date stands her up. Expecting a dull evening, Chris settles down with three kids for a night of TV ... and boredom. But when her frantic friend Brenda calls and pleads to be rescued from the bus station in downtown Chicago, the evening soon explodes into an endless whirl of hair-raising adventures! Babysitter and kids leave their safe suburban surroundings and head for the heart of the big city, never imagining how terrifyingly funny their expedition will become.
Amazon.com:
Way before she grabbed an Oscar nomination for her searing performance as a world-weary prostitute in Leaving Las Vegas, Elisabeth Shue was known as one of the squeaky-clean actresses of the '80s. Having made a splash in The Karate Kid and the '60s-nostalgia TV series Call to Glory, Shue cemented her good-girl reputation with the charming but badly titled Adventures in Babysitting. Set in the John Hughes-style suburbs of Chicago, the titular adventures follow babysitter Chris (Shue), who agrees to watch the Anderson kids (Keith Coogan and Maia Brewton) when her boyfriend cancels their anniversary date. All is quiet on the home front until Chris is called upon to rescue her best friend (Penelope Ann Miller, also doing good-girl duty) from the seedy downtown bus station. She can't leave the kids, and she can't leave her friend alone in the big bad city, so she packs everyone in the station wagon and heads into Chicago. Screwball craziness begins as they encounter car thieves, knife-wielding gangs, gun-toting truck drivers, and, worst of all, Chris's duplicitous boyfriend. It's hardly mature entertainment, but Shue makes it work; when she wins over the audience at a blues club with her improv singing, you'll be won over, too. In his directorial debut, Chris Columbus (who later went on to helm the sap-fests Mrs. Doubtfire and Home Alone) gently skewers the suburbia white-bread mindset of the main characters, and plays up the comedy over the schmaltz with a subtlety of which he now seems incapable; the near romance between Shue and Coogan is played lightly and adorably. Look for brief appearances by art-house faves Lolita Davidovich as a college party girl and Vincent D'Onofrio as an unlikely savior. --Mark Englehart
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- "It's like a Dairy Queen, you only get one flavor"This is my all-time favorite 80's comedy. Watching it today, it is no less enjoyable than it was upon ... Read More
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- 80's Comedy AdventureThis is one of my favourite movies, yet it seemed to get lost back when it was released.
Chris ... Read More
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- Adventures In BabysittingThis movie is a classic. I bought it for a friend of mine, for her birthday. She was so excited. It came with ... Read More
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- Adventures in BabysittingThis is a great movie for teens and those of us who loved it as a teen. It is full of adventure and comedy. ... Read More
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- babysitting movieThis is good old movie. Not by todays acting standards but for its time it is funny and well made
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