Saturday, August 14, 2010

FILM REVIEW: THE BABYSITTERS

Today we have another Netflix film selection The Babysitters. This film, well, how should I say isn’t about your typical babysitter tale of obnoxious, ill mannered kids that a young female high school student takes on to make a few extra dollars over the summer. This film is definitely different it takes on a life that we all suspect could happen in real life, but maybe not to this level.

The Babysitters is a film of a 17, high-school junior Shirley Lyner who is thinking about college and running a babysitting service that provides teen call girls to the dads of young children. In a long flashback, we see what brought her from being a babysitter to organizing and running the service. It starts with Michael, the father of children she baby-sits. A cup of coffee on the way home from his house, a night visit to a train yard, and one thing leads to another. Shirley can be ruthless, and tension builds when some of the clients take the girls to a mountain cabin and bring drugs. Then, one of the girls tries to freelance. Can this end well: is it a tragedy in the making? Don’t we all have secrets? Written by jhailey@hotmail.com

The Babysitters was written and directed by David Ross, produced by Kathy DeMarco, Jason Dublin, Jennifer Dublin, John Leguizamo, and Cora Olson. The cast has John Leguizamo, Katherine Waterston, Cynthia Nixon from Forensic Films 2007. (imdb)

I’m not afraid to say I enjoyed this film. And I’d have to say it was probably for its scandalous situations its characters were in, which kept the films tension alive. That “Oh shit, they’re so going to get caught” feeling you get in your gut as you watch is huge part of why this film works. And much like anything in life it goes for a time good or bad just let it ride. Morally, this film well... I didn’t watch it to be moral I watched it to be entertained. The pace of the film held up through to the end and the main characters progression stayed true as well. The ending... well who is to say how any film should end? I believe we as people go through instances in life where there is only one other person who was there and shared the experience. In the case of The Babysitters I give it 4 stars.

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