Adventures in Babysitting (1987)
Genre: Adventure / Comedy
Duration: 102 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Chris Columbus
Stars: Elisabeth Shue, Maia Brewton and Keith Coogan
IMDb score:
6,9 (53.706)
Releasedate: 1 July 1987
Adventures in Babysitting plot
"She thought babysitting was easy money - until she started hanging out with the Andersons."
Chris has planned a date with her boyfriend, but he canceled it, so Chris decides to babysit a family with an adolescent boy and a slightly younger girl. She expects a dull evening until a friend of hers calls and says that she is stranded at a bus station in the center of the city, surrounded by scary figures. The three plus a boyfriend get ready for a ride downtown in the parents' station wagon. Everything is going well until they get a flat tire...
Actors and actresses
Chris Parker
Sara Anderson
Brad Anderson
Daryl Coopersmith
Joe Gipp
Dawson / 'Thor' (as Vincent Phillip D’Onofrio)
Brenda
Dan Lynch
John Pruitt
Mike Todwell
Reviews & comments
otherfool
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1 word: youth sentiment. 3.5*.
A few more words than: during revision, perhaps little of the charm will remain, but I really liked this at the time, of course also because of Shue 
Doesn't the final scene play on slanted windows of a skyscraper? There's still something about that...
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rep_robert
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Adventures in Babysitting is a nice 80s flick that almost feels Goonies-esque. A group of youngsters ends up in an adventure through the jungle of the big city and comes across all kinds of scum that go after them. Nowhere original or particularly hilarious (except for the bits with the stranded girlfriend at the station among the crazies), but overall just entertaining and easy to sit out. A good first film by Chris Columbus, who has clearly given himself a good stepping stone towards Hollywood and is responsible for all kinds of classics.
3.0*
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Shadowed
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Typical Columbus.
He is a real crowd pleaser as a director. Constantly picks out projects that are pretty easy to do, and Adventures in Babysitting is no different. In fact, with a little more sentiment and longer running time, it could have been a film that could have been made by Spielberg himself. He probably could have done better.
This film is adventurous in character with some awkward humor in between. The actors are not often able to deliver their lines really convincingly. I never got a lot of sympathy for the characters, rather for Levels who plays a small supporting role. I could actually take that character as someone who hasn't walked out of a comic book. Still, I have to say that they all manage to keep the film entertaining.
Enough events and a healthy pace make this film ideal for reliving an older movie time or sitting on the couch with the family. When I was a kid, I didn't really care if a movie was old or not, so I think movies like this that have enough to offer not to get boring would go easy on such an evening. I don't really need to say more about it. Entertaining, good to watch, but nowhere outstanding.
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