![]() ![]() Thinking she can find work at a clothing store, Sue Ellen is disappointed when the only place that’ll hire her is a fast-food restaurant called Clown Dog. They decide they’d rather starve than call their mother, her friends, or their relatives for help, so Sue Ellen agrees to get a job if Kenny will stay home and take care of the house and the other siblings. Sturak, the kids are ready to start their summer - that is, until they realize that all the spending money their mother left them for the next three months was in the trunk. Now that they no longer have to deal with Mrs. Sturak’s death - and that their mother will return home and be in their faces all summer - the Crandells decide to put her body in a trunk and anonymously drop it off at a funeral home. But when she decides it’s time to negotiate, she discovers the babysitter is - you guessed it - dead.įearing that if they call 911 they’ll be blamed for Mrs. Sick of the way they’re being treated, they decide to rebel, electing Sue Ellen as their spokesperson. While Kenny manages to avoid her, the other kids have to deal with her ridiculous rules. Sturak is in charge, she turns into a nightmare - an old biddy with a whistle and a hatred for undisciplined children. Their dreams are quickly dashed, however, upon the arrival of the elderly babysitter who’s been hired without their knowledge, the seemingly sweet Mrs. With their divorced mother (Concetta Tomei) in Australia all summer, the Crandell siblings - recent high school grad and aspiring fashionista Sue Ellen (Applegate), who’s the oldest burnout stoner metalhead Kenny (Keith Coogan) girl-crazy Zach (Christopher Pettiet) tomboy Melissa (Danielle Harris) and TV-addicted Walter (Robert Hy Gorman) - fantasize about a fun-filled summer without mom around to nag them. My brother and I hadn’t been left alone for more than a weekend, so we were extremely jealous of the Crandell kids and their good fortune (though we weren’t heartless enough to be glad that an old lady incidentally died for their freedom). At the time its story about five kids, most of them teenagers, getting to spend an entire summer alone, unsupervised, sounded more like a fantasy film than a comedy. Holland’s Opus), came out the summer I turned 13. I’m glad I did.ĭon’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead, directed by Stephen Herek ( Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Mr. But a few of my friends went to see it and told me I’d love it, so I relented. ![]() I was never much of a Married … With Children fan, and in 1991 that was the only work of Christina Applegate’s I’d ever seen, so I wasn’t terribly interested in her first big-screen comedy when it hit the theaters. (Notice I didn’t say it’s among the best of that decade, just that it’s one of my favorites.) I’m going to say this without an ounce of shame: Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead is one of my favorite movies of the ’90s. ![]()
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