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Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead [DVD]

Christina Applegate (Actor), Joanna Cassidy (Actor), Stephen Herek (Director) Rated:

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Format	Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, Dolby, NTSC
Contributor	Keith Coogan, Concetta Tomei, Jayne Brook, Josh Charles, Stephen Herek, Robert Hy Gorman, Christina Applegate, Joanna Cassidy, Kimmy Robertson, John Getz, Tara Ison, David Duchovny, Danielle Harris, Eda Reiss Merin, Neil Landau See more
Language	English, French
Runtime	1 hour and 45 minutes

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The day after Mom leaves for a summer vacation in Australia, the kid's strict babysitter drops dead. The kids decide not to tell Mom, so that they can party.
Item Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: PG13
Street Date: 08/30/05
Wide Screen: no
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Language: ENGLISH
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Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead aspires to be a cross between Home Alone and Risky Business, with Christina Applegate as an inadvertent scam artist who gets in over her head and somehow pulls it off. When her mother goes to Australia for two months, Sue Ellen (Applegate) thinks she's going to be in charge--until an elderly tyrant of a babysitter arrives. But on the very first night the old lady has a heart attack and keels over. Sue Ellen and her siblings leave the body at a mortuary, only to discover afterward that all the money their mother had left for the summer was in the babysitter's clothes. So Sue Ellen has to get a job. Thanks to a trumped-up resume, she ends up as an executive assistant at a clothing manufacturer. For a while she keeps her head above water by skillfully exploiting a friendly coworker, but her brothers and sisters are running amok at home and a venomous receptionist has it in for her at work. The role-reversal humor of Sue Ellen having to mother her siblings is unsurprising, but Applegate is unexpectedly appealing; her scenes with Josh Charles (Dead Poet's Society, Threesome) have a sweet chemistry. Joanna Cassidy (Blade Runner, The Laughing Policeman) plays Sue Ellen's boss and a young David Duchovny (The X-Files, The Rapture) is a weaselly clerk. --Bret Fetzer

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.85:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 1.6 ounces
Director ‏ : ‎ Stephen Herek
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, Dolby, NTSC
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 45 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ December 12, 2000
Actors ‏ : ‎ Christina Applegate, Joanna Cassidy, John Getz, Josh Charles, Keith Coogan
Studio ‏ : ‎ Hbo Home Video
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00004XMVA
Writers ‏ : ‎ Neil Landau, Tara Ison
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Steve Southern

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Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2024

Very Good movie

Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2024

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One of my fave movies to watch. Wish I had it on DVD. Glad to be able to find it on Amazon to watch.

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HILARIOUS! Totally Worth Renting!

Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2023

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I Googled which platforms carried this movie.
Yes, I planned on subscribing to a channel if it had other good shows and movies, but at first, it was to watch this movie, specifically.
Crazy right?
It was recommended to me by a friend who could not stop raving about how funny and great it is. She couldn't believe I hadn't seen it yet.
I wasn't really prepared to pay to RENT it, since it didn't seem like the type of movie (seeing how old it was and the genre,) that you'd pay extra to have access to for a few days.
So, I ended up adding another channel, and I still couldn't see it without renting!
I was disappointed but decided that after paying for a whole month for an additional channel, I should just pay the extra $4 to see it.
I have to say, she was not wrong. It was hilarious. At times, I had tears coming down my face from laughing so hard.
If you haven't seen it yet, give it a shot. It's worth it!

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Amusing film for more than innocent stage

Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2016

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What is a great film? Something that is truly timeless, or something which is a classic of its genre? Obviously, no-one's pretending "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead" is a great film (no great film has a title of more than three words.
Think about it) but nonetheless, one does get to see how a film handles its composition of several genres rather than one. It's the best strategy towards greatness, and I hope to see this attempted more frequently.
"Don't Tell Mom..." is at an interesting cultural crossroads. It's basically the last of the Eighties high-concept comedies: the same broad category as films like Big and Crocodile Dundee, where the whole film comes from the pitch. However, we get to see shades of Wayne's World-esquire Generation X teen movie, especially in the character of Rob, and unfortunately the short-lived genre of 'kids acting in grown-up situations and delivering ever-so-amusing grownup lines.' John Hughes was the master of this style of film-making, and there's definitely shades of his work in here, most noticeably the setting of a film largely within a family house.
First of all - the pitch. Kids left at home for summer with babysitter. Babysitter dies and kids must fend for themselves with as few people let in on the secret as possible. From this moment on, the film was always going to go about the format of throwing its naive, brattish teenagers in the real world at the deep end and extracting as much amusement as possible from their sinking-or-swimming.
The screenplay starts to thin at this point. Of the five kids in the house, only two are feasibly old enough to work, or indeed to learn any sort of life lesson throughout this experience. The plot then follows Sue Ellen as she stumbles her way into a job and up the corporate ladder (the script is devoid of jokes at this point, but I kept watching because Christina Applegate is a surprisingly good actress.) Everything from this point is a misjudgment - it's virtually scrawled across the screen that Sue Ellen is getting some life lessons and becoming a young adult. The film could have done without the 'boyfriend' storyline though - it's without doubt the saggiest part of the film.
More interesting is the Kenny storyline. Younger brother Kenny goes from being a hopeless layabout stoner with no inkling to as what he wants to do in life to a man with a plan. Lack of screen time prohibits us from truly understanding why, but we do get an insight into the film's message - the real world is about sacrifice. Kenny must throw away his carefree existence if he wants to become a man.
Sure, this film has faults like pearls on a string - the annoying smaller children who eat up screen time and contribute nothing but an unbearable cuteness (and they're not even that cute: they steal money from their mom's purse - twice.) Sue Ellen's corporate life is shown as patronizingly simple, but that's a fault of all movies in general, you can't have clever successful people as the heroes because the audience feels intimidated. The other major fault I'm going to point out is the chronic lack of laughs. About the biggest giggle was David Duchovny's horrendous yellow shirt. But "Don't Tell Mom," much like its characters, has an innocent, naive charm about it, and if you can put aside your critical mauling instinct, it won't be the worst two hours of your celluloid life.

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Jeffrey D. Williams-Winchester

Good Movie for Movie-Night

Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2023

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FUN.

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Laurel

Classic 80s Film meets what was Modern Fashion for Industries.

Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2024

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Old classic story lines... teenagers, kids, life and death, income, when to have fun, fashion, music, cleaning and chores, what is adulting... meets non-parental moments in a classic 80s film.

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Smurfkisser

The classic movie, no frills.

Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2023

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I love the movie and got it to show a younger friend. The quality is that of an old vhs. They could've done a little razzle dazzle on the dvd release, but didn't on this one. Would've loved some bonus features. Anyway, the movie holds up, buy the dvd!

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Charity

Rated G

Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2023

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This is a fairly old movie and is free from nudity and profane language. It is not particularly scary and has an element of suspense to it. It reminds me of the "Goosebumps" series of books.

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Candy Luvr

Charming

Reviewed in Canada on February 4, 2024

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Fun family mayhem in a coming of age movie.

Tracey T.

A cinematic gem!

Reviewed in Canada on June 27, 2023

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A wholesome movie about a curmudgeon babysitter who kicks the bucket. Shenanigans (and hilarity!) ensue.

So good.

Reviewed in Australia on December 23, 2020

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I haven't seen this movie in so long.
Christina Applegate is to Awesome in this move.
So good.

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Good old movie

Reviewed in Canada on December 25, 2021

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Watching this took me back years, still a great movie.

Allison Grundy

Doesn’t work in Australian dvd players

Reviewed in Australia on May 5, 2023

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The DVD won’t play in my DVD player as it is the incorrect region for Australia.

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