The Babysitters

The Babysitters (2007)

  • 33% of critics liked it
    (27 reviews)

  • 34% of users liked it
    (3,253 ratings)

A bored suburban husband finds his affair with a high-school babysitter fast snowballing out of control in this black comedy from first-time screenwriter/director David Ross. Shirley (Katherine Waterston) is a brainy honors student who is always thinking about the future, and works part-time as a… More

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R,
Directed By
Written By
David Ross
Genres
Comedy, Drama
In Theaters
May 9, 2008 Wide
Peace Arch Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

    It's bad enough that writer-director David Ross indulges in the very perverse kind of Lolita-tinged titillation the film pretends to lament, but then he ties everything up with an oh-well shrug.

  • Stephen Holden, New York Times

    Until it crosses a shadowy line dividing serious comedy from distasteful exploitation, The Babysitters has the makings of an incisive satire of greed and lust in suburbia.

  • Susan Walker, Toronto Star

    The script has a stale air, like something that was doing the rounds for a long time before David Ross found backers to make a film out of it.

  • Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger

    Although the film is pitched as dark comedy, there's nothing very funny about the sexualization of teenagers.

  • Kyle Smith, New York Post

    I'd call it a depressing soft-core porn flick, but that overstates its titillation factor. Mainly it's just icky.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Bruce B


    Cute girls but Very disappointing. 3 stars

  • J P


    Such a weird, dirty movie. There isn't really an ending to it; the movie just kind of....ends. Like the director said "okay guys, that's good enough. Let's just stop here." So many unanswered questions and plot holes. The characters are all pretty… More

  • Dean !


    Quite an average film in the end, more of a drama. One for the trailer made it look a lot better category that's for sure.

  • Dean L


    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… More

  • Bobby H


    This movie starts out with what seems to be a strong plot... A troubled teen and her troubled friends start a babysitting service that focuses on something far from babysitting, when the fathers take the sitters home, stachatory rape and adultry become the movies theme. It was… More

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