| | |
Features: DVD, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, French, Dubbed
Chris (Elizabeth Shue) had a big night out planned. When her boyfriend cancelled on her, she agrees to baby-sit for a pre-teen girl and a pubescent boy. She's settled in for a dull night when a friend calls to say she's marooned at a downtown bus station with very seedy characters around her. The group set out in Chris’s parents station wagon for a trip to the inner city that turns into a comedy of errors.
DVD Features:
French Language Track
2.0 Surround
Widescreen (1.85:1)
"Wonderfully entertaining... Superbly performed...and loads of unending fun." Jeffrey Lyons, Sneak Prieviews/INN
"...filled with fun and laughter." Judith Crist, WOR-TV
Editor's Note
Chris Parker agrees to babysit for a neighbor after her "dream" date stands her up. Expecting a dull evening with three kids and the TV, the hair-raising adventure soon explodes when her friend Brenda calls and begs to be rescued from the bus station in downtown Chicago.
Plot Summary
After her boyfriend cancels a date, 17-year-old Chris agrees to babysit for 15-year-old Brad and his younger sister, Sara. When she gets a call from her best friend who's at the bus stop in downtown Chicago deciding not to run away, Chris packs the kids in the family car to go fetch her. En route, they run into every imaginable hitch, including having to sing the blues to escape a neighborhood club, accidentally stealing vital financial information from the mob, and witnessing a tow-truck driver's wife's infidelities.
| Features | Widescreen Version | | English 2.0 Surround Sound | | French Language Track |
| Technical Info
|
Release Information
| | Studio: Buena Vista |
| Release Date: 3/1/2005 |
| Running Time: 102 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1987 | | Catalog ID: 1759303 | | UPC: 00717951003300 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
|
| | Professional Reviews | Variety
"...A fresh, solid lead performance from Elisabeth Shue....[Levels] gives a sweetly controlled performance..." 06/24/1987Los Angeles Times
"...Amusing....This whole cast has a genuine simpatico and warmth -- especially Levels, Shue and Rapp..." 07/01/1987 p.C1 Washington Post 6 of 10
Babysitting, the directorial debut of The Goonies and Gremlins writer Chris Columbus, is a sweet-natured, adolescent variation on the big-city black comedy After Hours. Its cute kid cast of suburban innocents get lost in the Urban Underland with their imperturbable baby sitter Chris. Elisabeth Shue, previously The Karate Kid's girlfriend, gives Chris the common sense of a student council president as she leads this Brady Bunch through the terrors of Chicago's Tenderloin... Chris' escapades begin when her dream date falls through and she agrees to baby-sit for the Andersons' daughter Sara, a devotee of the action hero Thor, and her older brother Brad, a pimply 15-year-old with a crush on the unattainable senior Chris... Columbus, like Hughes, is supplying basically benign viewing for kids. Nobody gets his face scraped off. In fact, the kids meet kindness where they least expect to find it -- in the mean streets. - Rita Kempley
|
| |
|
|
|
