Babysitters, The (2007) [Blu-ray]
Drama
Tagline: These girls mean business.
When Shirley Lyner (Katherine Waterston) starts babysitting for Gail and Michael Beltran (Cynthia Nixon, John Lequizamo), her life becomes wilder than she could ever imagine. Shirley and Michael begin a dangerous affair and when he pays her a big tip to
stay quiet, she takes her babysitting service to a whole other level.
As more of Michael's married buddies learn of his arrangement Shirley's calendar is soon filled with student-babysitters and more married fathers than she and her friends can manage. Their lives begin to unravel into a world of sex, money and greed,
making getting into college the least of their problems.
User Comment: aharmas from United States, 11 May 2008 • Whoever said that brains and beauty is not an explosive combination? An enterprising young woman sees a way to take control of her life and becomes a mastermind behind a
society of young women whose lives are slowly shattered when they decide to use their charms to make some money.
The film starts out slowly and then hits a few highs along the way, giving us a share of strong, controversial and provocative moments. As we see the story unfold, we are not quite sure when the dangerous and tragic moments are coming. They are expected,
but they are not quite as obvious as one expects. Little by little, we see the girls lose control of their enterprise, as each person's agenda begins to threatens the good of the group. Personalities begin clashing as the quiet and demure realizes she
doesn't have enough strength to continue. In the opposite end, her sister is taking more and more dangerous assignments, and all of this emotional turmoil begins to prove too much for the head of the club.
In the end, things work out but not that smoothly, and not without a couple of gigantic crises along the way. It is shocking at times, and there are a couple of lulls along the way that almost derail the film, but it is a movie that shows a side of teens
that has probably never been shown before. It will make you think.
Rated R for disturbing strong sexual content, language and some drug use - involving teens.
Summary: Taking control isn't that easy.
[CSW] -2- NO English/SDH subtitles which I desperately needed! This movie might have gotten a higher rating but I could not make out enough of what the characters were saying. Along with a lot of other missed dialogue I was only able to glen parts of the
story. I honestly believe that being able to discern a lot more of the dialogue would have allowed me give this movie a higher rating, but not much higher. Although I could easily see the reason for the dissolution I couldn't actually determine what the
ending story line was.
[V3.8-A3.8] MPEG-4 AVC - No D-Box.
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