Andy Comeau, Cynthia Nixon, Denis O'Hare

A teenager turns her babysitting service into a call-girl service for married guys after fooling around with one of her customers.

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R, 1 hr. 30 min.

Directed by: David Ross

Release Date: May 9, 2008

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DVD Release Date: September 16, 2008

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  • June 1, 2009
    Initially I thought this was going to be a tawdry attempt to recapture the genius of "Heathers." It was not. It was also not, as some might assume, a "skin flick." If you are looking for that there is very little here so look elsewhere.
    Mid-life crisis meets teenage angst.
    H...( read more)ere the teens are searching for a way to express themselves as well as turn a profit and the middle-aged men are portrayed as, well...quite pathetic.
    The story takes some very interesting turns as the plotline begins with our 'protagonist,' Shirley and her crush on the Father (John Leguizamo) on one of her babysitting jobs.
    Their tryst turns into much more as Shirley's OCD sharpened mind organizes a scheme breaking all the socially acceptable mores set in sexually repressed suburbia. Supply and demand meets moral turpitude.
    There are more than a few surprises and the performances are quite good. In addition, the tone set by direction and cinematography lend itself to realism as we are both drawn in and repulsed by what is happening.
    This is a sharply written commentary and one that you should watch if you get the chance.
  • March 11, 2009
    "These girls mean business."

    A teenager turns her babysitting service into a call-girl service for married guys after fooling around with one of her customers.

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    A disengaging little movie about high school girls who do more than babysitting kids. The ...( read more)movie as a whole is pretty much uninspired, with no character development with the lead whatsoever. One day she's a shy, cute high school girl the next she's a wildfire screwing everything that moves. The process that took her from shy, anal retentive girl to a wildfire of a woman is just done in one scene, there was just no point to it. I won't spoil the movie in here but the "climactic" scene at the end was so far fetched it felt like the writer/directer lost his focus and just slapped that in as a quick fix to end the movie.

    I'm really shocked that someone actually wrote and directed this. That sort of implies that the creator was heavily invested. This is like a love letter to pedophiles all over the world.
  • September 14, 2008
    S'okay.
  • September 11, 2009
    Wow. Needless to say I was surprised when I saw this film about a teenage babysitter sleeps with her boss and then decides to turn it into a business. Need someone to watch your kids AND sleep with your husband while you're away? Then the Babysitters is the group for you! What ma...( read more)de it more scandalous than the premise already was, was how eager the other girls were to be a part of the business. I didn't really take any life lesson out of it, other than that it seems that there are a lot more hoes in high school than I though =/
  • June 7, 2009
    Under-developed story with no real plot or any story at all really. It also had very poor character development to the degree that you didn't even care what happened to any of them. A star and a half is a generous rating...
  • November 17, 2009
    hummmmmm...






    humm. memories??? lol
  • October 25, 2009
    This movie was oddly not bad.
  • October 19, 2009
    An interesting movie, well acted, especially by John Leguizamo. A bit unnerving at times, I would recomend it.
  • September 28, 2009
    Very awkward disturbing film by David Cross. The storyline wasn't interesting only to deliver soft-core porn as these girls didn't think of a decent job clearly. I couldn't get anything good out of this maybe to convey the message to wives not to call babysisters when the man is ...( read more)alone? A flick not to be seen again.
  • September 19, 2009
    Katherine waterson's performance was intense!!! its a great contraversial independent film

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  • fategirl80
    March 12, 2009
    I liked The Babysitters with John Leguizamo. I have The Babysitters on DVD. The Babysitters is my favorite John Leguizamo movie. In The Babysitters I liked Shirley Lyner, Michael Beltran, Mikey Beltran, Adam Beltran and Shirley's friend Melissa Brown. I liked the songs that they played in The Babysitters with John Leguizamo.

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