Stars: Christina Applegate, Keith Coogan, Joanna Cassidy, John Getz, Christopher Plummer, Danielle Harris, Sarah Buxton, David Duchovny, Christopher Plummer, Concetta Tomei, Kimmy Robertson, Jayne Brook, Robert Hy Gorman, Cathy Ladman, Eda Reiss Merin, Christopher Pettiet

Director: Stephen Herek

Summary: School has finished for the summer and with their mother away on holiday, the Crandell kids are ready to party. But the babysitter has other plans. Just as the kids are about to give up on the idea of summer fun, the babysitter dies leaving the Crandell kids without any adult supervision...

School is out, and with their mother is on holiday, so the Crandell children are ready to party. Their elderly babysitter, however, has other things in mind. But just as the kids are about to give up on having any summer fun, the babysitter suddenly dies, leaving them free from adult supervision. The film stars Christina Applegate and features an early screen appearance by David Duchovny.

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Reviewed by: mcdermot7@aol.com
Posted on May 9, 2006 3:58 PM

Christine Applegate ensures comedy & sex goes hand in hand. Babysitters beware you could die laughing watching this fun filled feature.

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Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Deadaspires to be a cross between Home Aloneand 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 skilfully 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 humour of Sue Ellen having to mother her siblings is unsurprising, but Applegate is unexpectedly appealing; her scenes with Josh Charles have a sweet chemistry. Joanna Cassidy plays Sue Ellen's boss and a young David Duchovny is a weaselly clerk. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Year:	1991
Release Date:	June 7, 2004
Runtime:	100 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	C C D 9005
Keywords:	Comedy, Dead, General, Tell, Mom, Don't, Babysitter's
Genre:	Comedy