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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: SHUE,ELISABETH DVD Layers: 1 DVD Sides: 1 EAN: 9786305428053 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0788816888 Label: Buena Vista Pictures Languages: Manufacturer: Buena Vista Pictures MPN: 717951003300 Number Of Items: 1 Picture Format: Letterbox Publisher: Buena Vista Pictures Region Code: 1 Release Date: January 18, 2000 Running Time: 102 minutes Studio: Buena Vista Pictures Theatrical Release Date: July 01, 1987 Editorial Review: Product Description: A boring evening of babysitting turns into high adventure when a babysitter and her three charges set out to rescue her friend from the downtown Chicago bus station. Genre: Feature Film-Comedy Rating: PG13 Release Date: 1-MAR-2005 Media Type: DVD Amazon.com: Way before she grabbed an Oscar nomination for her searing performance as a world-weary prostitute in Leaving Las Vegas, Elisabeth Shue was known as one of the squeaky-clean actresses of the '80s. Having made a splash in The Karate Kid and the '60s-nostalgia TV series Call to Glory, Shue cemented her good-girl reputation with the charming but badly titled Adventures in Babysitting. Set in the John Hughes-style suburbs of Chicago, the titular adventures follow babysitter Chris (Shue), who agrees to watch the Anderson kids (Keith Coogan and Maia Brewton) when her boyfriend cancels their anniversary date. All is quiet on the home front until Chris is called upon to rescue her best friend (Penelope Ann Miller, also doing good-girl duty) from the seedy downtown bus station. She can't leave the kids, and she can't leave her friend alone in the big bad city, so she packs everyone in the station wagon and heads into Chicago. Screwball craziness begins as they encounter car thieves, knife-wielding gangs, gun-toting truck drivers, and, worst of all, Chris's duplicitous boyfriend. It's hardly mature entertainment, but Shue makes it work; when she wins over the audience at a blues club with her improv singing, you'll be won over, too. In his directorial debut, Chris Columbus (who later went on to helm the sap-fests Mrs. Doubtfire and Home Alone) gently skewers the suburbia white-bread mindset of the main characters, and plays up the comedy over the schmaltz with a subtlety of which he now seems incapable; the near romance between Shue and Coogan is played lightly and adorably. Look for brief appearances by art-house faves Lolita Davidovich as a college party girl and Vincent D'Onofrio as an unlikely savior. --Mark Englehart Average Rating:
 Rating:  - babysitting movieThis is good old movie. Not by todays acting standards but for its time it is funny and well made Rating: - An Imaginative Adventure.One of those movies that is easy to watch many times. The plot is simple and almost-believable; A babysitter gets in deep trouble while taking the kids out in an unauthorized rescue mission of a run-away friend. The cast plays well within their rolls, from the innocent child to the obnoxious teen. It is very entertaining and time goes by very fast. Rating:  - Babysitting AdventureFun family movie with a lot of action and a bit of romance. Elisabeth Shue's character agrees to babysit her family friend's kids after having her date cancelled by her so called boyfriend. She thinks it's going to be an easy night babysitting until her friend calls her to pick her up from the train station. She agrees and that's where the action begins. What has she let herself in for? Gives a new meaning to 'babysitting' Rating: - Great imaginative adventure for any BabysitterI saw this movie a while ago and enjoyed it, as my daughter was a babysitter and I could so picture something funny as this could happen to her. Great movie for kids and if you are an adult you can enjoy it as a cute adventure, think when you were younger, could you picture this happening to you. Rating: - Feel good masterpiece the whole family will loveThis is one of the truly rare films that will have everybody laughing out loud regardless of age. Amazingly, the film does it without pandering, and without dumb or gross out humor. Elizabeth Shue is simply amazing in this. Forget that she is drop dead gorgeous! Her acting, dialogue and her chemistry with the kids in question is perfect. Beyond that, it's even better! I can honestly say that every character you will see in this is a worthwhile addition. How many movies have you ever ... Read More |
