The Babysitters (2008)

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Boring

A Brilliant Conflict

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

I had that movie uploaded along with some others ...due to summer fires we had a 4 hour blackout...luckily my laptop was fully charged so I watched it on the porch ...I did like it....the story is fairly common and most of the characters ordinary ...that is strangely it,s success...you can very easily recall similar situations that happened either to you or to people very close...most of the characters display some weaknesses here and there but the two protagonists top the list .It is so tragic to see Michael sacrifysing his infatuation for his family as well as Shirley acting tough while she hurts inside...I cannot say I knew miss Waterston but checking wiki I was surprised to see that by the time of the films release she already was pushing 27...she really looked much younger...if that was unintentional or she put an effort to it it works very positive for her...Conclusion...I liked it a lot and left me with a sad feeling....of how many times life plays us like dominoes

I really enjoyed this movie, first off John Leguizomo gives a terrific performance in his role.. the movie deals with a bunch of sexy teenage girls perhaps bored and broke,, they offer "babysitting" services as a ruse for prostitution, with one of the girls dad's and all of his friends. there is definitely a lot of sex in this movie obviously and we assume that most if not all of the girls are underage, so that's presents a moral and legal dilemma for the men involved. not really for the girls because they just want the money, the one dad even brags to his friends that he "did" this girl and recommends her to all his friends. the girls on the other hand team up to make a lot of cash,, well one or more of the girls decides to get greedy and set up "dates" unbeknownst to the others , and when the other girls find out the catfight is on.. will the men be caught and sent to jail for exploiting these teen girls,, or will the girls blackmail the dad's and get away with it,, lot's of tension and drama,, all the way till the final climax.. no pun intended.

This movie was available on Netflix streaming. I wanted to watch something meaningless in spare time when I had a few minutes to kill. So I saw it in 4 or 5 sittings.So the movie begins as just another slice of urban life, parents go to work, kids go to school, and some of the girls get babysitting jobs in the evening. But then one man in his 40s gets sweet on his babysitter. She is taken completely by surprise at his advances, but soon relaxes and enjoys the attention. She is surprised when he gives her a wad of money for her "babysitting", $200 in all.So he gets hooked on his young lover and after a few $200 nights she realizes this can be profitable for her and a select few of her close friends. The word spreads from guy to guy, the price for the "babysitting service" goes up to $300. The girl who organized it all gets her 20% and soon business is in full swing.Of course there has to be a downside to all this, and that is the moral of the whole movie, teenage girls in high school can't get into the prostitution business without some competition and finally some breakdowns fueled by guilt.Overall it is well made and well acted. The daughter of veteran actor Sam Waterston is the lead girl, and the only one who bares her chest during the movie. Even though the story involved "underage" girls, in reality they were all in their 20s, and the Waterston girl was 26 during filming.

I marked it high because of the original script idea and the great acting, but I have to say that the ending could have been better.It is an audacious concept: babysitting teenagers are acting as high pay prostitutes for the fathers that drive them home. I felt that the high school teens were much too eager to have sex with strangers and that the wives were terrible if they didn't smell anything suspicious. In the end it all comes down, as it would be expected, but it unravels the complex feelings underneath in the process. The girls are all beautiful, Katherine Waterson plays great; John Leguizamo again brings great quality to a movie; the direction is really good. While the film has a great story to tell, I felt that the script was a bit naive.Bottom line: it is a tensioned, raw even, autopsy of the real suburb feelings: the taken for granted wives, the ignored teenagers and the powerful urges of the overworked middle aged men, overlooked by their spouses.