Brittany Garcia
1991
Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitters Dead
Directed by: Stephen Herek
This movie
is definitely a classic comedy. It starts out with a mom going on vacation,
leaving her five kids with a babysitter for about 2 months. The first night
with the old lady babysitter was hell. She was yelling, bossing, and extremely
rude. Sue Ellen, the oldest girl of the bunch went to confront the babysitter
about her actions and finds her dead in a rocking chair. She had died of
natural causes. Instead of the kids calling the cops, they put the old lady in
a trunk and went and dropped her in the front of some funeral home. The rest of
the movie from here on out was hysterical.
Sue Ellen has to get a job to support the kids while their mom is gone.
She ends up lying on her application about her experience and age and lands a
job as an executive associates producers of a fashion company. Toward the end,
she volunteers to host this huge fashion show party at her house. This is when
everything blows up in her face. Their mom comes home and sees hundreds of people
in her house, and Sue Ellen’s cover is completely blown about her age,
experience, and so forth. The mom flips,
makes them stop the party and start cleaning. It closes out by the camera doing a close-up
on the moms face as she states “Sue, where’s the babysitter?” I loved this movie. My beyond favorite scene
is when Sue Ellen is on a date at the beach. They use a long shot of the two with
the ocean waves crashing in the background and birds flying in the front, it is
absolutely gorgeous. This movie relied on little music patterns and different
songs to relay emotions throughout the entire thing.
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