Adventures in Babysitting

1989

Comedy

8
IMDb Rating 5.7/10 10 223 223

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Plot summary

After their trip into the big city in the movie Chris once again is asked to baby sit Brad, Sara and Daryl for the night when a simple trip to the store turns into a hostage situation. Chris and the kids have themselves yet another adventure.

Director

Joel Zwick Photo
Joel Zwick

Top cast

Joey Lawrence Photo
Joey Lawrence as Brad Anderson
Courtney Peldon Photo
Courtney Peldon as Sara Anderson
Art Evans Photo
Art Evans as Mr. Dukeman
Susan Blanchard Photo
Susan Blanchard as Joanna Anderson
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
940.3 MB
1280*692
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 42 min
Seeds 1
1.88 GB
1920*1038
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 42 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by y2jswalls

Pretty Good

I watched this Pilot for the Un-Made series when it originally aired and I liked it then. Luckily I was smart enough to tape it so I watched it recently and I have to say I still think it was pretty good, for being a spin-off of an unforgettable movie starring Elizabeth Shue. It would have been a good television series in my opinion. Would have been better if Elizabeth Shue reprised her role. But oh well. If you like the movie, then you should like the TV Show Pilot.
Reviewed by Horst_In_Translation 4 / 10

Bearable as a one-time episode, not enough for a series

"Adventures in Babysitting" is a 23-minute comedy short film from 1989, so two more years and this one is 30 years old. Actually, the Elisabeth Shue movie this is based on has its 30th anniversary this year already. If you take a look at the people who worked on this project we have here, in front of the camera as well as behind it, you will find a handful of names who may have worked on a couple other shows you have seen already. This especially refers to Brian Austin Green in his early days of an actor and he even won an award for his turn here. But despite this awards attention, the pilot episode was not deemed worthy of any follow-up and they never made a series. Perhaps not the worst decision as overall this just wasn't a convincing watch. Here are there we have a decent moment, but there were still at least as many bad moments where the comedy simply wasn't working. The laugh tracks wasn't really the problem here. One problem was however that you could feel on several occasions that the characters' lines were scripted, a common problem for child actors and it is tough to say if their delivery was the core issue or the actual material. In any case. I have to give this one a thumbs-down because there were also major weaknesses about the story, not just the words. For example: The plot twist with one bad guy beating up another at the end was pretty cringeworthy. I suggest you watch something else instead.
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