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Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991) -- 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 t
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991) -- 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 t
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User Rating:
5.4/10   8,933 votes
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Writers (WGA):
Neil Landau (written by) &
Tara Ison (written by)
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Release Date:
7 June 1991 (USA) more
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No rules. No curfews. No nagging. No pulse.
Plot:
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. full summary | add synopsis
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4 nominations more
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A Conversation with Danielle Harris
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Better than the 5/10 rating it has here. more (58 total)
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Also Known As:
The Real World (USA) (working title)
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102 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Production was nearly halted towards the end of shooting due to Christopher Pettiet's drug addiction, which was just starting to get out of control. The producers wound up cutting a few of his scenes to keep the film on schedule. more
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Audio/visual unsynchronized: At the beginning of the movie, Kenny arrives home with a marijuana plant in a bag, which he puts on his window. The plant falls down and we hear a ceramic pot breaking, yet when Kenny was putting the plant down, we could clearly see the pot was plastic, not ceramic. more
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Mrs. Sturak: T.V. rots your brains. more
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THE BEST THING more

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Why is some of the coarse language censored, even on the DVD?
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17 out of 23 people found the following comment useful.
Better than the 5/10 rating it has here., 7 December 2004
Author: tholts from Mountain Top, PA

Just saw it again; the cast carries a silly plot, in much the same way as a '40s screwball comedy but with an 80s/90s sensibility and awareness. Applegate and Coogan are really outstanding here, and the supporting cast is smart enough to either support or stay out of the way, as necessary. It's pure humor with no big message, which apparently was a virtue 60 years ago but is unforgivable now. I'd best describe the humor as, "Hilarity ensues as fish out of water learn to breathe air."

I'd give it a very solid 6.8 out of 10, worth a rental or a Netflix hit, but not a $20 purchase.

Tom

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