The Babysitters |  | Director: David Ross
Actors: Katherine Waterston, John Leguizamo, Cynthia Nixon
Studio: Peace Arch Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
Buy New: $9.99
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 28990
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Surround Sound, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 625828227103
EAN: 0625828227103
ASIN: B001BN25YO
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: September 16, 2008
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Product Description
Shirley Lyner is your typical suburban student. She studies hard and baby-sits in her spare time to save money for college. But when Gail and Michael Beltran ask her to sit for them, her normal life will become wilder than she could ever imagine. Shirley and Michael begin a dangerous affair and he pays her a big tip to stay quiet. With her new found money and power Shirley decides to take her babysitting service to a whole other level when one of Michael s married buddies learns of his arrangement. With a calendar filled with student-babysitters and more married fathers than she and her friends can manage Shirley's life begins unravelling into a world of sex, money and greed. For this babysitter, getting into college is the least of her problems.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 11
 average movie January 11, 2010
Joseph L. Kolb (harris, mn USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
this movie certainly had a lot to offer but came out short. if you're going to make a adult-themed movie, then go for it. having sex scenes with everyone fully clothed does nothing for the movie. it's not my main complaint or major concern, but it is more distracting than anything. i doubt if teenagers are that organized or can keep a secret especially with all the business, money and backstabbing that was going on. their business would of collapsed long before it did. and it would not only be the kids that noticed high buck jewerly and clothes on them. i really don't think the leguizamo character would really have the caring and feelings he did. i didn't think much of the acting or characters played. and yes, common sense giving teenagers drugs and alcohol will come back to haunt you. nothing really happened, which i'm sure is a relief to the characters. if this movie would have been made in any other nonpolitically correct decade, it might have been done differently.
 This is the worst John Leguizamo ever. December 18, 2009
Scott Lee Mcclurkin (louisville, KY)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
WARNING!!! SPOILER ALERT!!!
This movie is stupid. John must have needed the money when he did this. I like Leguizamo in movies, but who wrote this crap? It was interesting and believable at first until his girlfriend(waterston) started a escort service with her high-school friends. Like that would happen in real life USA. Except for the husbands paying 18 YO girls for sex I would definitely believe that. The acting is fine though by all the actors. Then the story degenerates into outrageousness. Like when the teen madame gets her johns to assault and batter the teenage brother of one of her escorts. In reality, the johns would be afraid of getting caught by their wives, the teen escort's parents, and finally the police. In the end of the movie the teen madame and her girlfriends try to murder one of her former teen escorts, for escorting on the side without paying the teenage madame her cut, while her client johns beat up the john, the rogue escort was servicing. Whom the madame later finds out to be her own father who is cheating on her mother.
What a joke. Whoever wrote this s@%t must have a negative view of escorts and cheating husbands. The writer needs to read about why husbands commit infidelity. It's not simplified by saying that they are creeps. Even infidelous husbands have a valid reason whether its sex addiction, a deteriorating marriage, which shouldn't of have happened in the first place, etc.
Avoid this movie and see Empire, Wild Things 3, the Take, Paraiso Travel, Zigzag, Carlito's way, Casualties of war instead.
Consequence anybody? November 23, 2009
Sheila Yount
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This movie had so much going for it. I liked the choices for just about every character. The subject is very crazy, yet important. But the one thing missing is consequence!
As you watch this movie unfold you keep waiting for the fall! One of the girls is going to talk? One of the girls is going to end up pregnant? Someone is going to end up getting killed? One of the wives is going to catch on? The police are going to be tipped off and the girls are going to get busted? Something? Anything? Yet the movie ends with a big "oh well, ain't life funny. You are a normal girl one minute and a call girl the next. Just another episode in the life and times of a normal teen girl?" Say what? There is no way you can have that many people all in on the crime and someone not talk! These girls trashed the high school. You mean there were no security cameras in the school? No alarm systems? They do every middle aged man in town! They beat the crap out of anyone who goes against them. They almost drop one of the girls off the side of the bridge! Yet no police, no one talks and everything is great. I'm sure the main character got back in time for her S.A.T. test and made an A+.
Sad, because this could have been so much more! This movie was like having sex. You kept building and building waiting for the big POP! Yet in the end we got the big "lets just be friends."
Ehhhh October 11, 2009
T. L. Messom (plentywood, mt USA)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
OK premise, if somewhat cliched. Unfortunately, the acting left a lot to be desired. Horrible waste of John Leguizamos' talents. Can't say that I'd recommend this movie to anybody (that I liked anyway)!
 disturbing July 28, 2009
B. E Jackson (Pennsylvania)
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
We all know teens do things behind their parents back when the parents go to sleep at night, and when the teens are at school and talk to their friends to try and be cool (and sometimes a little daring) but who would have ever guessed teens were capable of... THIS???
Capable of sleeping around with older men in order to make some quick money (not just a few dollars either- *serious* money).
That's not all- these girls actually developed an official gathering-type club dealing with sleeping with older guys.
There's an important lesson to be learned here- as a young adult, seriously think about what you're doing. If you think it's wrong, don't go around doing things like this. It will only lead to a life down the gutter. Think rationally and don't make any serious mistakes or you will regret them later.
As for the storyline, well, it was shocking to me. Young girls sleeping with older men and not even believing there was anything wrong with it... until the regret part kicks in. A normal reaction.
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