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Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead

starring: Christina Applegate, Joanna Cassidy, John Getz, Josh Charles, Keith Coogan
directed by: Stephen Herek

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780783117003
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0783117000
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 12, 2000
Running Time: 105 minutes
Sales Rank: 988
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 07, 1991



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Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead aspires to be a cross between Home Alone and Risky Business, with Christina Applegate as an inadvertent scam artist who gets in over her head and somehow pulls it off. When her mother goes to Australia for two months, Sue Ellen (Applegate) thinks she's going to be in charge--until an elderly tyrant of a babysitter arrives. But on the very first night the old lady has a heart attack and keels over. Sue Ellen and her siblings leave the body at a mortuary, only to discover afterward that all the money their mother had left for the summer was in the babysitter's clothes. So Sue Ellen has to get a job. Thanks to a trumped-up resume, she ends up as an executive assistant at a clothing manufacturer. For a while she keeps her head above water by skillfully exploiting a friendly coworker, but her brothers and sisters are running amok at home and a venomous receptionist has it in for her at work. The role-reversal humor of Sue Ellen having to mother her siblings is unsurprising, but Applegate is unexpectedly appealing; her scenes with Josh Charles (Dead Poet's Society, Threesome) have a sweet chemistry. Joanna Cassidy (Blade Runner, The Laughing Policeman) plays Sue Ellen's boss and a young David Duchovny (The X-Files, The Rapture) is a weaselly clerk. --Bret Fetzer



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Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - 3 & 1/2 stars, but they sound like chipmunks!!
I grew up watching this movie. Rented it. Recorded it off of TV. A decent cliche '90's movie! ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Too bad they spoiled it
I wish that they could've made this movie with less strong cuss words. It would otherwise be a good, ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Don't Tell Mom The Babysitters Dead
This is a movie that came out a few years ago but is still a favorite of mine. It is a family classic ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - This movie is great!
I first saw this when I was a kid when HBO was playing constantly. I loved it then, and I'm surprised at ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
Christina Applegate is surprisingly good in this cult classic playing Sue Ellen. After the babysitter dies ... Read More

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