Adventures in Babysitting

Adventures in Babysitting (1987)

  • 76% of critics liked it
    (25 reviews)

  • 64% of users liked it
    (105,884 ratings)

Teenager Chris Parker (Elisabeth Shue) would rather party with her boyfriend, but when her beau breaks their date she reluctantly accepts a babysitting job. It isn't all TV and icebox-raiding when Chris' best friend Brenda (Penelope Ann Miller) calls her to announce that she's stranded… More

PG-13,
Directed By
Genres
Comedy, Kids & Family
In Theaters
Jul 3, 1987 Wide
Touchstone Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • , Time Out

    Chris sets off on a rescue mission, and ends up running the gauntlet of big city perils in a belaboured spinning-out of a weak storyline.

  • Rita Kempley, Washington Post

    A sweet-natured, adolescent variation on the big-city black comedy After Hours.

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    By the end of the film, I'd had a couple of real laughs and a few interesting moments, but that was about all.

  • Matt Brunson, Creative Loafing

    Easy-to-take effort that primarily benefits from a charming performance by Elisabeth Shue.

  • James Plath, Movie Metropolis

    Like "Home Alone," "Adventures in Babysitting" is a lightweight comic adventure, but it's effective in what it sets out to do . . . and that's entertain.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • KJ P


    "Adventures in Babysitting" is honestly one of the cheesiest films that I have ever seen. As a seventeen year old is stood up by her boyfriend, she is subdued to babysit for a little girl. This quickly turns into having to babysit her brother and his friend. I do not have… More

  • Candy R


    Funny movie about a girl whose boyfriend cancels their date. She agrees to babysit some kids but has to leave the house to rescue her friend who has run away. They get into all sorts of trouble,

  • Chris W


    This is a real fun and entertaining look at how what should have been a nice quiet ordinary night of babysitting turns into a madcap romp where everything that could go wrong, does. I'm kinda all over the map with 80s pop culture. I've got a love/hate relatiosnhip with it.… More

  • Jeff "


    Adventures In Babysitting is for me one of Chris Columbus best films. After her friend gets stranded, babysitter Chris Parker must come to her rescue and brings along the kids she's babysitting along for the ride. And it's quite a ride. Whats supposed to be a routine pick… More

  • Cassie H


    This is another 80s classic that is a rare film and I absolutely love it! :) It has everything. Comedy, romance and suspense! Elisabeth Shue is great as the babysitter, Chris Parker and who could forget the characters of Brad, Daryl, Sara, Dan, Pruitt, Brenda, Joe, or Dawson aka Thor.… More

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