- Actors: Christina Applegate, Joanna Cassidy, John Getz, Josh Charles, Keith Coogan
- Directors: Stephen Herek
- Writers: Neil Landau, Tara Ison
- Producers: Brian Reilly, Caroline Baron, Davis Guggenheim, Jeffrey Silver, Julia Phillips
- Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
- Language: English, French
- Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
- Region: (US and Canada This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
- Number of discs: 1
- MPAA Rating:
- Studio: HBO
- Release Date: Dec 12 2000
- Run Time: 105 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (50 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00004XMVA
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #13,077 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
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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
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Most helpful customer reviews
don't tell anyone you watched this movie
Nov 18 2007
Format:DVD
it isn't good.i didn't find it funny at all.i did find it boring and
stupid,though,so i guess that's something.not something good,but still
something.i couldn't finish the whole movie,i was so bored.in the 45
minutes i watched,i never laughed once.i figured if the movie wasn't
good by then,it wasn't gonna get any better.the premise is an
interesting one,but the execution falls flatter than than a
pancake.somewhere between page and scree it falls apart.the average
rating here is 4/5 and i would have to disagree with that rating.for
me,Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead is a just slightly above awful
2/5.
stupid,though,so i guess that's something.not something good,but still
something.i couldn't finish the whole movie,i was so bored.in the 45
minutes i watched,i never laughed once.i figured if the movie wasn't
good by then,it wasn't gonna get any better.the premise is an
interesting one,but the execution falls flatter than than a
pancake.somewhere between page and scree it falls apart.the average
rating here is 4/5 and i would have to disagree with that rating.for
me,Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead is a just slightly above awful
2/5.
Very Happy
Jan 13 2011
Format:DVD
Did not take long at all for me to get my DVD and it was new and works great. Thank you!
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
July 11 2004
Format:DVD
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead is an okay movie; it is different and that makes it different from any other slapstick comedy.The cast isn't that big besides Applegate.The old lady in the beggining is really funny.It is full of funny moments, but the plot is to different and that is what made me give it a lower rating.The is definetly a perfect six.The children in this film are so trashy and realistic in that kind of setting and I think that's hilarious.Applegate does a great job and serves up quiet a few laughs.The pothead older brother is kind of annoying along with some other characters.One of the main promlems is that the film is so predictable.The outfits and hair cuts are fun to make fun of when there is nothing really important is going on.If you are up for a good laugh and something deifferent check it out, but don't expect to much from this little comedy.
Christina Applegate, who plays Kelly Bundy in the hit TV show "Married With Children," is the star of this wacky comedy about a group of kids trying to cope with a very weird situation.While mom takes off for a trip to Australia with her boyfriend, the kids are left in the care of the elderly babysitter from hell. Then things go from bad to worse: the old lady dies, leaving them without a cent to their name. Teenager Sue Ellen, the oldest sibling, realizes that they'd better do something fast if they want to eat. Because one thing's for sure: no one wants to let mom know that the babysitter's dead...
"Predictable, but not wholly unlikable."
-- Ken Hanke, MOUNTAIN XPRESS (ASHEVILLE, NC)
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WOW Christina Applegate is HOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is a movie worth owning, it's funny, charming, witty, and has the BABE from married with Children CHRISTINA APPLEGATE! WOOHOOOO!!! Buy this one right now!
Published on May 10 2004 by Paul Madden
review
hi. i never went so school and i dont know how to write reviews and i run sentences together and dont capatalize my i's.
Published on Feb 11 2004
applegate and coogan soar!
this movie is one of many where keith coogan shines. christina applegate shows us how great she is at being a mom, too! also, knox overstreet is a clown boy. Read more
Published on Jan 29 2004 by Marie Kelly
The movie's good, the DVD is awful
This is a movie that I quite enjoy. That said, the DVD version I just purchased is the absolute pits. Read more
Published on Jan 1 2004
ok
this movie was so stupid, their babysitter died while parents are away so big sister has to get responsible and get a job, she lies and gets a job and crazy things happen at work... Read more
Published on Dec 31 2003 by Dance Dance Dance
Good Movie
I'm an adult and I love this movie. I don't understand why TV Guide gives it only one star. It deserves more than that. Read more
Published on Dec 7 2003
don't tell mom the baby sitter's dead
no matter what age you are, you will love this movie! it was sooo funny! the kids are left alone all summer with the babysitter! Sue ellen is my favorite! u should buy this DVD!
Published on Nov 28 2003
don't tell mom the babysitter's dead
This has and always will be my favorite movie ever! i loved it! christina applegate is such a great actress! the movie was so funny! every one should watch it!!!
Published on Nov 28 2003
don't tell mom the babysitter's dead
This has and always will be my favorite movie ever! i loved it! christina applegate is such a great actress! the movie was so funny! ever should watch it!!!
Published on Nov 28 2003
One of the best
I have alwasy enjoyed this movie since the first time I saw it. When I was about 5 I had some really weird favorite movies for a 5-year-old, they were Critters, Buffy the Vampire... Read more
Published on Jun 26 2003 by T. Stewart
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