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| Adventures in Babysitting | 
 enlarge | Director: Chris Columbus
Actors: Elisabeth Shue, Maia Brewton, Keith Coogan, Anthony Rapp, Calvin Levels
Studio: Buena Vista Pictures
Category: DVD
List Price: $9.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (124 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1172
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 102 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 4.7 x 0.6
MPN: 717951003300
ISBN: 0788816888
UPC: 717951003300
EAN: 9786305428053
ASIN: 6305428050
Release Date: January 18, 2000
Theatrical Release Date: July 1, 1987
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
A boring evening of babysitting turns into high adventure when a babysitter and her three charges set out to rescue her friend from the downtown Chicago bus station.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 1-MAR-2005
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com
Way before she grabbed an Oscar nomination for her searing performance as a world-weary prostitute in Leaving Las Vegas, Elisabeth Shue was known as one of the squeaky-clean actresses of the '80s. Having made a splash in The Karate Kid and the '60s-nostalgia TV series Call to Glory, Shue cemented her good-girl reputation with the charming but badly titled Adventures in Babysitting. Set in the John Hughes-style suburbs of Chicago, the titular adventures follow babysitter Chris (Shue), who agrees to watch the Anderson kids (Keith Coogan and Maia Brewton) when her boyfriend cancels their anniversary date. All is quiet on the home front until Chris is called upon to rescue her best friend (Penelope Ann Miller, also doing good-girl duty) from the seedy downtown bus station. She can't leave the kids, and she can't leave her friend alone in the big bad city, so she packs everyone in the station wagon and heads into Chicago. Screwball craziness begins as they encounter car thieves, knife-wielding gangs, gun-toting truck drivers, and, worst of all, Chris's duplicitous boyfriend. It's hardly mature entertainment, but Shue makes it work; when she wins over the audience at a blues club with her improv singing, you'll be won over, too. In his directorial debut, Chris Columbus (who later went on to helm the sap-fests Mrs. Doubtfire and Home Alone) gently skewers the suburbia white-bread mindset of the main characters, and plays up the comedy over the schmaltz with a subtlety of which he now seems incapable; the near romance between Shue and Coogan is played lightly and adorably. Look for brief appearances by art-house faves Lolita Davidovich as a college party girl and Vincent D'Onofrio as an unlikely savior. --Mark Englehart
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 Adventures In Babysitting August 2, 2008
This movie is a classic. I bought it for a friend of mine, for her birthday. She was so excited. It came with in 5 days and it was in perfect condition. Thanks!!
Adventures in Babysitting July 25, 2008
This is a great movie for teens and those of us who loved it as a teen. It is full of adventure and comedy. It is a movie you will love to watch over and over.
babysitting movie May 27, 2008
This is good old movie. Not by todays acting standards but for its time it is funny and well made
An Imaginative Adventure. April 28, 2008
One of those movies that is easy to watch many times. The plot is simple and almost-believable; A babysitter gets in deep trouble while taking the kids out in an unauthorized rescue mission of a run-away friend. The cast plays well within their rolls, from the innocent child to the obnoxious teen. It is very entertaining and time goes by very fast.
 Babysitting Adventure April 28, 2008
Fun family movie with a lot of action and a bit of romance.
Elisabeth Shue's character agrees to babysit her family friend's kids after having her date cancelled by her so called boyfriend. She thinks it's going to be an easy night babysitting until her friend calls her to pick her up from the train station. She agrees and that's where the action begins. What has she let herself in for?
Gives a new meaning to 'babysitting'
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