Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead


Starring:Christina Applegate, Joanna Cassidy, John Getz, Josh Charles, Keith Coogan, Concetta Tomei, David Duchovny, Kimmy Robertson, Jayne Brook, Eda Reiss Merin, Robert Hy Gorman, Danielle Harris, Christopher Pettiet, Chris Claridge (II), Jeff Bollow, Michael Kopelow, Alejandro Quezada, Wendy Brainard, Sarah Buxton, Kawena Charlot
Director: Stephen Herek
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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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
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?

DVD Features:
Biographies
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Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Summer of Maturity
  • The Dishes are Done Man!
  • Awesome Classic Movie
  • MUCH BETTER THAN THE TITLE SOUNDS!
  • Don't tell mom the babysitters Dead
 Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
Starring: Christina Applegate , Joanna Cassidy , John Getz , Josh Charles , and Keith Coogan
Director: Stephen Herek
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ASIN: B00004XMVA
Release Date: 2000-12-12

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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

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?

DVD Features:
Biographies
Interactive Menus
Theatrical Trailer

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Summer of Maturity.......2007-05-24

Director Stephen Herek and writers Neil Landau and Tara Ison present us with a tale that requires a lot of suspension of disbelief.
This 1991 flick focuses on the chaotic life of the Crandell Family, headed by a single mother (Concetta Tomei) who is to vacation in Australia for three months.
She leaves her five children in the care of octogenarian Mrs. Struak (Eda Reiss Merin), who appears nice on the surface, but who proves to be a tyrannical martinet once Mrs. Crandell leaves. Luckily, her tyranny is cut short after less than a day with her sudden death.
Rather than calling the authorities, the children dispose of her in front of a funeral home, and the oldest child, Sue Ellen(Christina Applegate), takes a job at a hot dog stand when they discover that the money their mother left for household expenses was with the corpse.
Sue Ellen's co-worker and High School sweetheart, Bryan (Josh Charles),
tries to rekindle a romance. But Sue Ellen moves on, using a fake resume to get a job with a fashion firm. She is mistakenly employed as an executive when she only wanted the receptionist's position. But her new boss, Rose Linsey, (Joanna Cassidy)is deeply impressed. Rose is dating co-worker, Gus (John Getz), who makes advances towards the pretty ingenue. Co workers Bruce, and Cathy (David Duchovny, Kimmy Robertson) try to discredit Sue Ellen.
At home Sue Ellen's brother Kenny ( Keith Coogan, with the acting chops of grandfather Jackie) begins a transition from a pot smoking slacker to an efficient household manager and cook. Younger siblings, including softball player, Melissa, lovelorn Zach, and adventerous Walter (Danielle Harris, Christopher Pettiet, and Robert Hy Gorman) fall in line as well.
Inevitably, there are critical missteps, and Sue Ellen gives herself and her siblings one more chance fore redemption before turning everyone in. Watch for a scene of Kenny and Sue Ellen sparring like an old married couple.
Sue Ellen is slated to give a fashion presentation, and with a lot of help from their friends, the Crandell kids pull it off brilliantly.
But Sue Ellen's lies are soon exposed, and Mom comes home and pulls the plug.
No matter. Rose expresses her gratitude for the teenager's help during the summer, and may help her get into college.
Mrs. Crandell is impressed by her oldest son's reinvention of himself, and the positive aspect of this story is that the kids inspire their friends to have a sense of direction for their lives as well.
The whereabouts of the babysitter's remains seem rather irrelevant in the end.

5 out of 5 stars The Dishes are Done Man!.......2007-05-10

Love this movie!! Great for a good laugh. Very cute movie and good for teenage kids...I watched as a child and have loved it since day one.

5 out of 5 stars Awesome Classic Movie.......2007-05-08

Don't Tell Mom is an awesome, classic movie. I love Christina Applegate. It's lighthearted and funny. Anyone would enjoy this movie. Not for children.

4 out of 5 stars MUCH BETTER THAN THE TITLE SOUNDS!.......2007-03-20

One of the better teen comedies of the time period and way better than the title leads you to believe! The good cast does what it can with the far fetched and silly script. It's kinda like Working Girl meets Home Alone...I guess?

5 out of 5 stars Don't tell mom the babysitters Dead.......2007-03-08

A perfect movie for babysitter's everywhere. Christina Applegate is histerical in this outrageous movie about 5 kids that have the summer to themselves because there mother is in Australia and there babysitter just died. See what they do and how they make it through the summer in this fabulous hit!
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (Mini DVD)
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    		Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (Mini DVD)
    Starring: Christina Applegate , E.E. Bell , Jeff Bollow , Wendy Brainard , and Jayne Brook
    Director: Stephen Herek
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    Release Date: 2005-04-26
    Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead [Region 2]
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    • Awesome Classic Movie
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    • Don't tell mom the babysitters Dead
    		 Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead [Region 2]
    Starring: Christina Applegate , Joanna Cassidy , John Getz , Josh Charles , and Keith Coogan
    Director: Stephen Herek
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    ASIN: B00004S5Q4

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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

    Customer Reviews:

    4 out of 5 stars Summer of Maturity.......2007-05-24

    Director Stephen Herek and writers Neil Landau and Tara Ison present us with a tale that requires a lot of suspension of disbelief.
    This 1991 flick focuses on the chaotic life of the Crandell Family, headed by a single mother (Concetta Tomei) who is to vacation in Australia for three months.
    She leaves her five children in the care of octogenarian Mrs. Struak (Eda Reiss Merin), who appears nice on the surface, but who proves to be a tyrannical martinet once Mrs. Crandell leaves. Luckily, her tyranny is cut short after less than a day with her sudden death.
    Rather than calling the authorities, the children dispose of her in front of a funeral home, and the oldest child, Sue Ellen(Christina Applegate), takes a job at a hot dog stand when they discover that the money their mother left for household expenses was with the corpse.
    Sue Ellen's co-worker and High School sweetheart, Bryan (Josh Charles),
    tries to rekindle a romance. But Sue Ellen moves on, using a fake resume to get a job with a fashion firm. She is mistakenly employed as an executive when she only wanted the receptionist's position. But her new boss, Rose Linsey, (Joanna Cassidy)is deeply impressed. Rose is dating co-worker, Gus (John Getz), who makes advances towards the pretty ingenue. Co workers Bruce, and Cathy (David Duchovny, Kimmy Robertson) try to discredit Sue Ellen.
    At home Sue Ellen's brother Kenny ( Keith Coogan, with the acting chops of grandfather Jackie) begins a transition from a pot smoking slacker to an efficient household manager and cook. Younger siblings, including softball player, Melissa, lovelorn Zach, and adventerous Walter (Danielle Harris, Christopher Pettiet, and Robert Hy Gorman) fall in line as well.
    Inevitably, there are critical missteps, and Sue Ellen gives herself and her siblings one more chance fore redemption before turning everyone in. Watch for a scene of Kenny and Sue Ellen sparring like an old married couple.
    Sue Ellen is slated to give a fashion presentation, and with a lot of help from their friends, the Crandell kids pull it off brilliantly.
    But Sue Ellen's lies are soon exposed, and Mom comes home and pulls the plug.
    No matter. Rose expresses her gratitude for the teenager's help during the summer, and may help her get into college.
    Mrs. Crandell is impressed by her oldest son's reinvention of himself, and the positive aspect of this story is that the kids inspire their friends to have a sense of direction for their lives as well.
    The whereabouts of the babysitter's remains seem rather irrelevant in the end.

    5 out of 5 stars The Dishes are Done Man!.......2007-05-10

    Love this movie!! Great for a good laugh. Very cute movie and good for teenage kids...I watched as a child and have loved it since day one.

    5 out of 5 stars Awesome Classic Movie.......2007-05-08

    Don't Tell Mom is an awesome, classic movie. I love Christina Applegate. It's lighthearted and funny. Anyone would enjoy this movie. Not for children.

    4 out of 5 stars MUCH BETTER THAN THE TITLE SOUNDS!.......2007-03-20

    One of the better teen comedies of the time period and way better than the title leads you to believe! The good cast does what it can with the far fetched and silly script. It's kinda like Working Girl meets Home Alone...I guess?

    5 out of 5 stars Don't tell mom the babysitters Dead.......2007-03-08

    A perfect movie for babysitter's everywhere. Christina Applegate is histerical in this outrageous movie about 5 kids that have the summer to themselves because there mother is in Australia and there babysitter just died. See what they do and how they make it through the summer in this fabulous hit!
    Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead [Region 2]
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    • Summer of Maturity
    • The Dishes are Done Man!
    • Awesome Classic Movie
    • MUCH BETTER THAN THE TITLE SOUNDS!
    • Don't tell mom the babysitters Dead
    		 Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead [Region 2]
    Starring: Christina Applegate , Joanna Cassidy , John Getz , Josh Charles , and Keith Coogan
    Director: Stephen Herek
    ProductGroup: DVD
    Binding: DVD

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    2. Troop Beverly Hills
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    4. License to Drive (Special Edition)
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    Amazon.com

    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

    Customer Reviews:

    4 out of 5 stars Summer of Maturity.......2007-05-24

    Director Stephen Herek and writers Neil Landau and Tara Ison present us with a tale that requires a lot of suspension of disbelief.
    This 1991 flick focuses on the chaotic life of the Crandell Family, headed by a single mother (Concetta Tomei) who is to vacation in Australia for three months.
    She leaves her five children in the care of octogenarian Mrs. Struak (Eda Reiss Merin), who appears nice on the surface, but who proves to be a tyrannical martinet once Mrs. Crandell leaves. Luckily, her tyranny is cut short after less than a day with her sudden death.
    Rather than calling the authorities, the children dispose of her in front of a funeral home, and the oldest child, Sue Ellen(Christina Applegate), takes a job at a hot dog stand when they discover that the money their mother left for household expenses was with the corpse.
    Sue Ellen's co-worker and High School sweetheart, Bryan (Josh Charles),
    tries to rekindle a romance. But Sue Ellen moves on, using a fake resume to get a job with a fashion firm. She is mistakenly employed as an executive when she only wanted the receptionist's position. But her new boss, Rose Linsey, (Joanna Cassidy)is deeply impressed. Rose is dating co-worker, Gus (John Getz), who makes advances towards the pretty ingenue. Co workers Bruce, and Cathy (David Duchovny, Kimmy Robertson) try to discredit Sue Ellen.
    At home Sue Ellen's brother Kenny ( Keith Coogan, with the acting chops of grandfather Jackie) begins a transition from a pot smoking slacker to an efficient household manager and cook. Younger siblings, including softball player, Melissa, lovelorn Zach, and adventerous Walter (Danielle Harris, Christopher Pettiet, and Robert Hy Gorman) fall in line as well.
    Inevitably, there are critical missteps, and Sue Ellen gives herself and her siblings one more chance fore redemption before turning everyone in. Watch for a scene of Kenny and Sue Ellen sparring like an old married couple.
    Sue Ellen is slated to give a fashion presentation, and with a lot of help from their friends, the Crandell kids pull it off brilliantly.
    But Sue Ellen's lies are soon exposed, and Mom comes home and pulls the plug.
    No matter. Rose expresses her gratitude for the teenager's help during the summer, and may help her get into college.
    Mrs. Crandell is impressed by her oldest son's reinvention of himself, and the positive aspect of this story is that the kids inspire their friends to have a sense of direction for their lives as well.
    The whereabouts of the babysitter's remains seem rather irrelevant in the end.

    5 out of 5 stars The Dishes are Done Man!.......2007-05-10

    Love this movie!! Great for a good laugh. Very cute movie and good for teenage kids...I watched as a child and have loved it since day one.

    5 out of 5 stars Awesome Classic Movie.......2007-05-08

    Don't Tell Mom is an awesome, classic movie. I love Christina Applegate. It's lighthearted and funny. Anyone would enjoy this movie. Not for children.

    4 out of 5 stars MUCH BETTER THAN THE TITLE SOUNDS!.......2007-03-20

    One of the better teen comedies of the time period and way better than the title leads you to believe! The good cast does what it can with the far fetched and silly script. It's kinda like Working Girl meets Home Alone...I guess?

    5 out of 5 stars Don't tell mom the babysitters Dead.......2007-03-08

    A perfect movie for babysitter's everywhere. Christina Applegate is histerical in this outrageous movie about 5 kids that have the summer to themselves because there mother is in Australia and there babysitter just died. See what they do and how they make it through the summer in this fabulous hit!

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