lisafordeay
Adventures in Babysitting is a 1987 Touchstone film starring Elizabeth Shue as a young girl who babysits 3 kids who end up being chased by a thief who is after them,and its up to them to escape from the thief and go back home before their parents come back from a party. I seen this about a month ago and I thought it was very good. Bradley Whitford plays Elizabeth Shue's boyfriend Mike who ditches her later on and the action sequences was very good. For Christopher Columbus's movie debut he did a good job as he would later create other films such as both Home Alone films,Mrs Doubtfire,Harry Potter & The Philosphers Stone and was also an executive producer for the Night At The Museum franchise. A couple of years later this film was remade starring Sofia Carlson as the main lead charcther that Shue played.See it !!!I would love to see this movie again soon.
utgard14
When she receives a frantic phone call from her friend who is stuck in downtown Chicago at night, suburban babysitter Chris (Elisabeth Shue) must head to the big city to help. But she can't leave the kids she's babysitting so she brings them along. The night becomes one big crazy experience for Chris and the kids. Classic '80s greatness here. You take a situation that, in reality, might wind up with a bunch of young people on the evening news as rape and/or murder victims and you turn it into an adventurous lark. Love the '80s!This is a highly entertaining movie. The characters are fun and well-written. The dialogue is great. It has the feel of a John Hughes movie. Elisabeth Shue is so good in this. It's impossible not to have a crush on her after watching this film. The kids are all good, with Maia Brewton stealing practically every scene she's in. Her love of Thor was a big kick to me as a kid since I was also a big fan of Thor and all the other kids I knew had no clue who he was. The scene where she meets "Thor" for real is one of the many highlights of this film for me. Just a great movie from a great decade. You should definitely check it out.
John Wayne Landry
I was 15 years old when I first watched this and while I knew even then that Adventures In Babysitting was aimed at a younger demographic like I was then,some of the content in this movie was appreciated even more by adults who had watched it.It's really a matter of individual interpretation what constitutes a great movie,but this one is actually a lot better than most give it credit for.Even though Elisabeth Shue was previously in The Karate Kid,I didn't really pay attention to her until this.She sure was a hottie then!Keith Coogan had pretty much fallen off the face of the Earth after this,Anthony Rapp has had a few projects on the go since,& I've seen Maia Brewton on an episode of The Wonder Years and appearances on a few other programs too.If you don't care to go out of your way to watch it,at least give it a chance if you're channel surfing on a lazy Sunday afternoon.
Ayal Oren
No it's not an original, in fact it follows the tradition started with brilliant movies such as After Hours and Into the Night and carried all the way to Date Night of more recent fame. The basic idea is to take an unsuspecting fairly well to do character (gender is almost not important) and whisk him/her/them away from their comfort zone. The general usage of the night is common in this sub genre. Well in this case we've got the very lovely Elisabeth Shue as a babysitter with three younger kids tagging along from the suburbs into the heart of the city's night life.So the starting point is not an original one, and neither is the plot. But Chris Columbus does what he knows best, he speeds up the story and extract every bit of charm his young stars have. And since they do have loads of charm, and Elisabeth Shue rarely looked better , it does work. Most of the characters are very undeveloped not to say shallow and cartoonish but some of those cartoons do work and the whole experience is rather enjoyable even if it's very far from a masterpiece. One big plus - everybody in it knows they're not making a masterpiece being straight forward is a plus in my book. I've seen this movie four or five times (only on TV) and always stayed through, it does say something.
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