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Adventures in Babysitting DVD

PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) :: Buena Vista Pictures :: Released: 2000-01-18

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Adventures in Babysitting Summary Chris Parker (Elisabeth Shue of Cousin Bette, Leaving Las Vegas) agrees to babysit after her dread date stands her up. Expecting a dull evening, Chris settles down with three kids for a night of TV.and boredom. But when her frantic friend Brenda calls and pleads to be rescued from the bus station in downtown Chicago, the evening soon explodes into an endless whirl of hair-raising adventures! Baby

Chris Parker (elisabeth Shue) Agrees To Babysit After Her "dream" Date Stands Her Up. Expecting A Dull Evening, Chris Settles Down With Three Kids For A Night Of Tv ... And Boredom. But When Her Frantic Friend Brenda Calls And Pleads To Be Rescued From The Bus Station In Downtown Chicago, The Evening Soon Explodes Into An Endless Whirl Of Hair-raising Adventures! Babysitter And Kids Leave Their Safe Suburban Surroundings And Head For The Heart Of The Big City, Never Imagining How Terrifyingly Funny Their Expedition Will Become.

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

Adventures in Babysitting DVD Techincal Details Cast: Elisabeth Shue, Keith Coogan, Anthony Rapp, Calvin Levels
Director: Chris Columbus
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Running Time: 102 mins
UPC: 717951003300
Binding: DVD
Studio: Buena Vista Pictures
Release Date: 2000-01-18
Region Code: 1
Specs: Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC

Language & Subtitles English (Unknown - Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language - Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), French (Original Language - Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround),