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Genre | Comedy |
Format | Multiple Formats, AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC |
Contributor | Keith Coogan, Concetta Tomei, Julianne Phillips, Jayne Brook, Josh Charles, Stephen Herek, Robert Newmyer, Dan Castellaneta, Christina Applegate, Kimmy Robertson, Joanna Cassidy, Brian Reilly, John Getz, David Duchovny, Jeffrey Silver, Michael Phillips See more |
Language | English |
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Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
Mom has taken a trip, leaving the kids with a babysitter. There's only one problem: she just died!
Now the kids can have a summer full of fun…or can they?
Product Description
Mom has taken a trip, leaving the kids with a babysitter. There's only one problem - she just died! Now the kids can have a summer full of fun - or can they?
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.4 ounces
- Item model number : 119655
- Director : Stephen Herek
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
- Run time : 1 hour and 45 minutes
- Release date : December 15, 2009
- Actors : Christina Applegate, Dan Castellaneta, Joanna Cassidy, John Getz, Keith Coogan
- Dubbed: : French
- Subtitles: : Spanish, French, English
- Producers : Michael Phillips, Robert Newmyer, Brian Reilly, Jeffrey Silver, Julianne Phillips
- Language : Unqualified, English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Studio : HBO Studios
- ASIN : B002XUBDRY
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,005 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #205 in Comedy (Movies & TV)
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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!
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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Christina Applegate is to Awesome in this move.
So good.