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Title: The Babysitters (2007)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Lauren Birkell | ... | Melissa Rowan | |
| Paul Borghese | ... | Cook | |
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Chira Cassel | ... | Health Teacher |
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Anthony Cirillo | ... | Adam Beltran |
| Spencer Treat Clark | ... | Scott Miral | |
| Andy Comeau | ... | Jerry Tuchman | |
| Ann Dowd | ... | Tammy Lyner | |
| Jason Dubin | ... | George | |
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Harold Fort | ... | Doug |
| Alexie Gilmore | ... | Jill | |
| Halley Wegryn Gross | ... | Nadine Woodberg | |
| Michael Knowles | ... | Guidance Counselor | |
| Louisa Krause | ... | Brenda Woodberg | |
| Adam LeFevre | ... | Mr. Brown | |
| Alexandra Daddario | ... | Barbara Yates | |
At 17, high-school junior Shirley Lyner is thinking about college and running a babysitting service that provides teen call girls to the dads of young children. In a long flashback, we see what brought her from being a babysitter to organizing and running the service. It starts with Michael, the father of children she baby-sits. A cup of coffee on the way home from his house, a night visit to a train yard, and one thing leads to another. Shirley can be ruthless, and tension builds when some of the clients take the girls to a mountain cabin and bring drugs. Then, one of the girls tries to freelance. Can this end well: is it a tragedy in the making? Do we all have secrets? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
This movie is both entertaining and highly unsatisfying; as unsure of itself as the teenage girls it depicts. There does not seem to be an overall direction and there is little in terms of a climax. No pun intended, because the frequent sex scenes are among the film's most entertaining sequences.
Almost every act committed by those in the film is immoral, illegal, or a terrible mixture of the two. Grown adults, ranging from lonely elderly perverts to unhappily married businessmen, purchase time with teenage girls running a prostitution ring disguised as a babysitting business. The film attempts to focus on the internal struggle of both the men and girls involved, but does little to form any kind of moral compass along the way. As the movie progresses, you grow to dislike the greedy ringleader as well as the married men her clique sleeps with.
Due to the lack of a leading protagonist, we are left with no one to cheer for. The only thing to look forward to is some kind of justice, some kind of reprehension or punishment for the acts committed. That does not happen. The ending is, to say the least, highly disappointing and resolves no questions nor concludes the movie properly.
This is the kind of film that demands a satisfying ending, but in the end, the viewer is left with more questions than answers. As far as we know, everyone involved manages to forget about the ordeal and move on. Perhaps the viewer should do the same with this film.