Adventures in Babysitting (1987)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

the audience applauded

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

You gotta love the 80's! This movie never gets old and it is just as funny as the first time. I recommend it ! 9/10

I was brought this movie way back when I was home sick with the flu. My elder sibling and seen it and told me I'd like it. She was right, (she was also right about my liking Clue, another great 80's movie). The story is not new, but the quirks in it make it interesting. I did enjoy the chases, the mistaken identity and what a sex-crazed idiot Darryl was. (Saw Anthony Rapp in School Ties too, where his performance was near perfect.) I fully enjoy this movie and both of my under-school-age children did too. still watch it to this day, (Goes for Goonies too), and think it is a great family movie. Yes, I thought Joe Gipp was attractive, but more attracted to Keith Coogan, always have been in every movie i have sen him in.

Chris Parker (Elisabeth Shue) agrees to babysit after her date stands her up. Expecting a dull evening, Chris settles down with three kids for a night of TV... and boredom. But when her frantic friend Brenda (Penelope Ann Miller) calls and pleads to be rescued from the bus station in downtown Chicago, the evening soon explodes into an endless whirl of hair-raising adventures! For whatever reason, this film is rated relatively low, even below the disappointing "Pretty in Pink" (easily the worst Hughes-related film). Why? This marks the pinnacle of 1980s coming-of-age films, with a plot similar to (yet completely different from) "Ferris Bueller's Day Off".How can anyone watch this and not think it was the best 90 minutes they can recall in recent memory?

Chris Parker is expecting to have a great night out with her boyfriend but things don't go according to plan; first he cancels, telling her that his little sister is ill and he must look after her; then she is asked to babysit eight year old Sara and her fifteen year old brother Brad. She hasn't been there long when she gets a desperate phone call from her friend Brenda who ran away from home and is now in the city bus station without any money. Chris can't not help her friend nor can she leave the children alone so they all head into Chicago along with Brad's friend Daryl. It should be a simple thing to do but everything that can go wrong does; they have a blowout, the car has no spare tyre and Chris forgot her purse; this leads to a run in with a hook-handed tow truck driver, a car thief, a group of mobsters and a couple of gangs! Before the film is over they will almost get shot, walk across a high girder, crash a frat party, crash the party attended by Sara's parents and Sara will end up stuck on the outside of a skyscraper!This film is a lot of fun with laughs from start to finish; the situations are obviously over the top but it should be easy enough to suspend ones disbelief and enjoy the adventure. Elisabeth Shue does a fine job as Chris although young Maia Brewton, who plays Sara, steals just about every scene she is in; no matter how scary the situation she acts like it is part of a fun adventure; more importantly she isn't one of those annoyingly precocious child characters. While they get in numerous dangerous situations there is never a feeling that any of them might get hurt so it shouldn't scare younger viewers... although I suppose some parents might not approve of the running gag concerning Chris being mistaken for the current Playboy centrefold! This actually turns out to be a key plot point when one of the boys steals a copy belonging to a mobster who has written incriminating details in it. Plenty of good teen comedies were churned out in the eighties and nineties and while this isn't one of the best known ones it is certainly well worth watching if it is on television.