The Babysitters
The movie follows Shirley, a teenager who works part-time as a babysitter and then makes extra money by setting up her teenage friends with unhappy fathers. after fooling around with one of her customers.
3 February 1982, San Diego County, California, USA
3 March 1980, Westminster, London, England, UK
22 August 1954, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
19 October 1970, New Boston, New Hampshire, USA
10 January 2001, Livingston, New Jersey, USA
1976, Manhattan, New York, USA
13 October 1974, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
10 January 2001, Livingston, New Jersey, USA
9 April 1966, New York City, New York, USA
30 January 1956, Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA
16 March 1986, New York City, New York, USA
26 June 1991, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
17 January 1962, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
17 October 1991, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
March 13, 1983 in Livingston, New Jersey, USA
13 April 1982, Miami, Florida, USA
2 January 1970, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
May 09, 2008
You can see the potential in this off-kilter coming-of-age story, and it's a pity it never quite adds up.May 15, 2008
Their customers are awkward enough that we're able to believe the girls are in control, or at least aware that they're the highlight of the men's week.May 09, 2008
I'd call it a depressing soft-core porn flick, but that overstates its titillation factor. Mainly it's just icky.May 08, 2008
Is Ross trying to mimic Michael Haneke, daring his audience to be disgusted by the very titillating premise which probably brought them to the movie in the first place?May 17, 2008
A pathetic excuse to trot out a procession of teenage girls in the raw, performing graphic simulated sex acts with your basic suburban family man drooling all over himself.May 16, 2008
It's bad enough that writer-director David Ross indulges in the very perverse kind of Lolita-tinged titillation the film pretends to lament, but then he ties everything up with an oh-well shrug.May 09, 2008
Until it crosses a shadowy line dividing serious comedy from distasteful exploitation, The Babysitters has the makings of an incisive satire of greed and lust in suburbia.May 09, 2008
David Ross's stylishly tawdry black comedy fits neatly between Heathers and American Beauty. The Babysitters Club this ain't.May 08, 2008
Like the pilot for an awful, misguided joint venture between FX and the CW.May 09, 2008
Although the film is pitched as dark comedy, there's nothing very funny about the sexualization of teenagers.May 08, 2008
confusedMay 09, 2008
The script has a stale air, like something that was doing the rounds for a long time before David Ross found backers to make a film out of it.