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Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991)
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Five kids are left home when their mother leaves town on a three-month vacation, only to have their geriatric babysitter die of a heart attack, leading to the eldest teen, Sue Ellen, to scam her way into taking a job at a hip Los Angeles fashion company to feed and support her needy siblings. Director:Stephen Herek |
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Rose Lindsey
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| John Getz | ... |
Gus
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Bryan
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| Concetta Tomei | ... |
Mom
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| David Duchovny | ... |
Bruce
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| Kimmy Robertson | ... |
Cathy
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| Jayne Brook | ... |
Carolyn
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Eda Reiss Merin | ... |
Mrs. Sturak
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Robert Hy Gorman | ... | |
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Christopher Pettiet | ... | |
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Chris Claridge | ... |
Lizard
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Mole
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Storyline
Single mother goes away for the summer. The kids are first delighted but then find that Mom has hired the sitter from hell to stay with them. When the sitter dies of a sudden coronary they deposit the body at a mortuary only to discover all their summer expense money was in her purse. The kids must find a way to survive the summer without mom or her money. This means actual work! Written by John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
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No rules. No curfews. No baths. No nagging. No pulse. See more »Genres:
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Apua! Lapsenvahti kuoli - eihän kerrota äidille See more »Box Office
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$25,196,249 (USA)Company Credits
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Melissa Crandell: No.
Mom: Get down from there.
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and comment how nice it was for her to leave them the money. The tombstone
reads "Nice Old Lady inside who died of natural causes". See more »
Performed by Valentine
Courtesy of Giant Records
By Arrangement with Warner Special Products
Written by Adam Holland, Gerard Zappa, Hugo Valenti, Craig Pullman and Neil Galluccio
Published by Snatch Magic Music
(Administered by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp.) See more »
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Trivia
Before Sue Ellen stomps out of Kenny's room, she yells, "When are you going to start helping me, you lazy little prick?" but director Stephen Herek decided he didn't want to take any chances of the movie receiving an R rating so he had the scene fixed for Sue Ellen to call Kenny a lazy little "punk" instead. See more »Goofs
Continuity: The film is set in the summer of 1990, but the Q.E.D. report on Sue Ellen's computer screen lists March 22 1989 as the day's date. Its confirmed it is meant to be 1990 by the posters in the Clown Dog advertising a circus for Friday the 20th of April (a date which falls in 1990, not 1989) See more »Quotes
Mom: Melissa, want to get down from there?Melissa Crandell: No.
Mom: Get down from there.
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Crazy Credits
The two groundskeepers for the cemetery stand over the Babysitters graveand comment how nice it was for her to leave them the money. The tombstone
reads "Nice Old Lady inside who died of natural causes". See more »
Soundtracks
"Runnin' on Luck Again"Performed by Valentine
Courtesy of Giant Records
By Arrangement with Warner Special Products
Written by Adam Holland, Gerard Zappa, Hugo Valenti, Craig Pullman and Neil Galluccio
Published by Snatch Magic Music
(Administered by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp.) See more »
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