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Summary: don't tell mom the babysitter's dead
Review: This has and always will be my favorite movie ever! i loved it! christina applegate is such a great actress! the movie was so funny! every one should watch it!!!
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Summary: don't tell mom the babysitter's dead
Review: This has and always will be my favorite movie ever! i loved it! christina applegate is such a great actress! the movie was so funny! ever should watch it!!!
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Summary: One of the best
Review: I have alwasy enjoyed this movie since the first time I saw it. When I was about 5 I had some really weird favorite movies for a 5-year-old, they were Critters, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Clueless, Little Nemo, and Don't Tell Mom the Babysitters Dead. Don't tell mom the Babysitters dead, if a perfect comedy for kids and teenagers. It is also a great time capsole for the early 1990's. The story revolves around 5 kids who's plans for the perfect summer is smashed, when they find out their mother (who is leaving for 3 months to travel in Austrila) has left then in the care of a mean, rule demanding 200 year old woman. But on the first night, she drops dead. Having left her on the morge's doorstep, it is now up to Sue Ellen to get a job and provide herself and her siblings with the Best summer imaginable.
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Summary: Who'da Thought?
Review: Here's a movie that's about four times better than it should have been. "Don't Tell Mom" starts with the silly comic premise of its title, but about 20 minutes into the movie something strange happens...it abandons the high concept completely and becomes ABOUT something. You could look at the second act of the movie as a solid gen-X metaphor - girl uses "throwaway" skill to make it in the big bad corporate world, sort of - but it's nice just to sit back and watch and not think too hard. Applegate has a nice, easy charm, and everyone involved with the movie gives it his and her all. "DTMtBSD" wasn't created to win any awards, but it's a damn enjoyable waste of 90 minutes.
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Summary: Funny!
Review: "Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead" was one of my favorite movies as a child. I always thought it was so cool that the four kids got to spend the entire summer by themselves without anyone telling them what to do! The story revolves around a family whose mother has gone on a trip to Austrailia for the summer. Thinking they're home-free, the kids are shocked to find out that their mother has hired a babysitter to watch over them while she's gone. At first the babysitter seems like a nice old lady, but as soon as their mother is gone, she becomes worse than a drill sargeant. Unfortunately, the babysitter dies in her sleep and the family must learn how to survive the entire summer with no money. Christina Applegate's character goes and finds work at a uniform company by lying on her resume. You will be shocked at what this family accomplishes! I would recommend this film especially to kids and teenagers. Adults might find this film a little far-fetched, but kids will definitely enjoy it!!!
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Summary: Fun to look back on
Review: This is Christina Applegate's first big movie, so i you are a fan this is definitely a neccesity. This movie definitely has its funny moments, but much of the humor is too obvious. If you liked this movie when you were a kid I highly reccoment buying it. There are many jokes that you will get now that you didn't at the time. Also, anybody who is a fan of the early 90s must have this. It is definitely one of the most memorable kid/teen movie from the early 90's/
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Summary: "No rules. No curfews. No nagging. No pulse."
Review: "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead" is definitely a guilty pleasure of mine. I'm not sure why I bought it, probably because I really liked it as a kid, as will other kids who like cheesy '90s movies. While it's considered a comedy, there aren't a lot of full-out jokes. The comedic relief is left mainly in the capable hands of Kenny Crandell (Keith Coogan), the metalhead, pot-smoking older brother--like when he gets winded just from running up a short flight of stairs or using the dirty dishes as clay pigeons, giving one of the most memorable quotes from this movie afterwards: "The dishes are done, man!" There's also some added romance thrown in between the 17-year-old main character, Sue Ellen Crandell (Christina Applegate), and Brian (Josh Charles), basically to fill in the movie's rough plot edges. Cute couple, but not really necessary, in my opinion. The plot in a nutshell: The mother goes on a trip for the summer, leaving her five kids (the two above-mentioned actors, plus Christopher Pettiet, Danielle Harris, and Robert Hy Gorman) in the care of an old, "deranged Mary Poppins" who suddenly dies of natural causes on her first day there. In an attempt to protect themselves, the five siblings dump her body at the mortuary and get on with the rest of their summer, leaving quite a bit of loose ends hanging. Without money, they soon realize they can't survive. So, Sue Ellen goes on a mad job-hunting search and gets hired first at a fast food restaurant (where she meets Brian) and then later at a clothes manufacturing company as an executive administrative assistant, but only because she plagiarized her entire resume. Most of the movie revolves around Sue Ellen's problems at this latter job (i.e., she's completely incompetent, her boss's sleazy boyfriend (John Getz) hits on her repeatedly, and two of her coworkers (Jayne Brook and David Duchovny) are trying to get her fired), which strays from the misnomer of this movie. (They really should have renamed this move, since the baby-sitter is barely in the movie for more than 10 minutes.) Overall, despite the contrived, improbable plot and average acting, "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead" still gets a halfhearted thumbs-up from me. It's not exactly a family movie (the profanity and drug use kind of ruins that Beaver Cleaver family atmosphere), but a lot of kids will probably like this one since running around parent-less and free is a dream come true for most kids.
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Summary: AWESOME MOVIE
Review: This is one of my favorite movies. it reminds me of being a kid. the dvd has really bright colors, which makes it more enjoyable to watch!! if only it was in 5.1!! too bad its not. one weird thing is that this site's product details say that this movie came out may 1st 2001. however, i bought this movie in december of 2000! oh well. this is a great movie.. if ya got time.. u have to watch it!!
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Summary: Most quotable movie ever!
Review: This movie's dialogue is the best, which is why I designated it "Most Quotable Movie Ever." None of the characters comes off as flat and wooden; they put their hearts into everything they say. Sue Ellen and Kenny's lines really sound like ones teenagers would utter. Also, Rose, Sue Ellen's boss, is a great actress. She looks and acts exactly like a benevolent supervisor. She really holds it together well. I deducted one star b/c when Sue Ellen got her job, the movie's focus seemed to veer off the more pressing issue: that the babysitter was dead and these kids were on their own. The focus seemed to be on Sue Ellen as an ersatz career woman, and at times I forgot the other issue. However, the two matters are tied together nicely at the end when the mother unexpectedly arrives home. The fashions and time period in which the movie was set were a nostalgic and amusing trip back through time for me. Though it was 1991, and 80's fashion was supposedly dead, you can see it flaunted in Sue Ellen and her friends just as if the decade had never turned over. Also, the head-banging proclivities of Kenny and his friends were poignant because 1991 was the year of hair music's last gasp: Both music and fashion were on the verge of tremedous and tumultuous change when this movie debuted, and Sue Ellen and Kenny were paying homage, probably unwittingly, to the old regime. I wondered, as I observed them, if Kenny would have become a Nirvana fan and if Sue Ellen would have exchanged her big earrings, stretch pants, and frosty lipstick for flannel.
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Summary: highly amusing
Review: Christina Applegate stars as Sue Ellen, the oldest of 5 children left behind as their single mom goes to Australia for the summer with her boyfriend. She hires an elderly control freak as the babysitter, even though Sue Ellen is 17 and a high school graduate. The babysitter dies of natural causes early in the flick, and their money for the summer is on her when they dispose of her. Sue Ellen must then run a scam, pretending to be 25 with a falsified resume, and getting a job as a fashion editor's assistant. She makes an enemy at the office by "stealing" this job, but she has to support her siblings, who run amok with lack of supervision. Particularly amusing is the 11-year-old Walter, who is in love with a neighborhood girl, and buys her a diamond ring with the petty cash that Sue Ellen stole form the office. Sue Ellen is also living a double-life by being the 17-year-old that she is with Bryan, a hot dog vendor she has met. She has to hide these 2 lives from her boss and her friends, and employ her siblings in helping her out if they are to survive the summer with their collective sanity intact and not being discovered by child welfare services. It's actually a pretty funny movie, with shades of "Home Alone" (1990) and "The Secret of my Success" (1987) written all over it. Highly amusing, worth renting.
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