Adventures in Babysitting
Adventures in Babysitting is a 1987 American comedy film about a teen girl who agrees to babysit after her date stands her up. Instead of the expected dull evening, she must journey into the city with the kids to rescue her friend from a downtown bus station.
- Directed by Chris Columbus. Written by David Simkins.
She thought babysitting was easy money - until she started hanging out with the Andersons.
Dialogue
[edit]- [in a telephone booth in the bus station]
- Brenda: Chris I'm begging you, it's really scary here. I've just seen three people shoot up, a bald Chinese lady with no pants on, and there's this old guy outside who wants his bedroom slippers!
- Old Man: [banging on telephone booth] Get out of my house!
- Brenda: [kicks out a small box and the guy's slippers] You just moved!
- Chris: Now, boys. If either of you give me any grief over the next 60 minutes, I swear to God I'll kill you. Dead, murdered, stabbed.
- Daryl: Raped?
- Chris: I'm too old for this crap.
- [Chris, Brad, Sarah, and Daryl are on the way to get Brenda]
- Daryl: Mike what?
- Chris: [confused] "Mike what" what?
- Brad: [equally confused] "Mike what, what" -- what're we talking about?
- Daryl: What's his last name?
- Chris: Todwell. Are you writing a book?
- Daryl: Mike Todwell?! Do you know him?!
- Brad: They go out. [Shrugs at Daryl, who goes back to asking Chris more questions]
- Daryl: He drives a red Camaro, right?
- Chris: Oh gee, Daryl, are you a gearhead AND a sex fiend? [Brad snorts] Anyway, a lot of guys drive red Camaros.
- Daryl: Yeah, but do they all have the license plate... [raises both thumbs in an exaggerated manner] "SO COOL"? [Brad bursts out in laughter while Chris smiles]
- Chris: That's Mike.
- Daryl: He's the guy who beat me up last summer for touching his car, which I didn't do.
- Brad: Oh, that was him?!
- Daryl: That was him!
- Chris: Mike wouldn't do that.
- Daryl: Yes, he would.
- Chris: No, he would not!
- Daryl: Yes, he would; he DID! He kicked my ass! You wanna see the footprint?
- Chris, Brad, Sarah: [firmly and in unison] NO!
- College Girl: I'm so lonely!
- Daryl: How could a righteous babe like you be lonely?
- College Girl: That's the sweetest thing anybody's ever said to me!
- Daryl: Really?
- College Girl: Want to go to bed?
- Chris: Don't worry. We'll get home. This has all just been a big mistake.
- Sarah: What about Brenda?
- Brad: That was her parents' mistake.
- Daryl: The chick is losing it.
- Chris: I am not!
- Sarah: [to Daryl and Brad] You guys want some candy?
- [Brad takes the chocolate bar from Sara. Chris turns and knocks the candy bar from his hands]
- Chris: Brad, no chocolate! Your acne! Sara. It is time for your cough syrup. Daryl, fasten the seat belt!
- Sarah: She's definitely losing it.
- Chris: I am not losing anything, I am still in control here! Got it?!
- Chris: [to Joe Gipp] Sir, would you please take us to the next corner, and drop us off?
- Joe Gipp: [chuckling] In this neighborhood? Hey... I wouldn't even get out of the car in this neighborhood.
- Brad: Could you drop us off at the nearest mall?
- Joe Gipp: "A mall"? Where do y'all think we're at, Boise, Idaho? Shoo!
- Daryl: Did you steal all of these cars?
- Joe Gipp: Yeah. It gets me some good money.
- Daryl: Isn't it kind of dangerous?
- Joe Gipp: Hey, I like danger, all right?
- Chris: You should try babysitting.
- Gang Leader: Don't...fuck...with the Lords of Hell.
- Chris: Don't fuck with the babysitter!
- Chris: ♪ I've got the... babysitting blues. ♪
- Sarah, Brad, Daryl: ♪ Baby, baby. ♪
- Chris: ♪ Babysitting blues. ♪
- Sarah, Brad, Daryl: ♪ Baby, baby. ♪
- Chris: ♪ Babysitting blues. ♪
- Albert Collins: ♪ Now, there're nights ♪
- Chris: ♪ You swear you were born to lose. Yeah! ♪
- Albert Collins: ♪ Like tonight. ♪
- Chris, Albert Collins: ♪ And you wish your feet were walking in someone else's shoes. ♪
- Albert Collins: ♪ Some guys are out to get 'em. And the girl's probably dead. She ain't got a nickel. ♪
- Sarah, Brad, Daryl: ♪ And we should be in bed! ♪
- Albert Collins: ♪ And you're outta luck. ♪
- Chris: ♪ Out of luck watching these guys. I've got the...babysitting blues. ♪
- Everybody: ♪ Baby, baby. ♪
- Chris: ♪ Babysitting blues. ♪
- Everybody: ♪ Baby, baby. ♪
- Chris: ♪ Babysitting bluuues. ♪
- Brad: [to Mike] You're such a loser.
- Daryl: Here we go again.
- Brad: I can only dream about having somebody like Chris as a girlfriend, but you've got her, and you treat her like this?
- Mike: Don't waste your time, half pint. Her legs are locked together at the knee.
- Brad: [grabs him by the collar] I'd love to hit you. I'd love to pound on your face!
- Mike: Yeah? Go ahead.
- Brad: But I won't. You're so slimy, I won't sink to your level.
- Daryl: I will. [kicks Mike in the rear, sending him crashing onto a table]
- Chris: Who was at the door?
- Brad: Stray dog.
- Chris: I don't think your parents will ever ask me to babysit again.
- Brad: If they do, I'd ask them for a buck more an hour.
Cast
[edit]- Elisabeth Shue - Chris Parker
- Maia Brewton - Sara Anderson
- Keith Coogan - Brad Anderson
- Anthony Rapp - Daryl Coopersmith
- Penelope Ann Miller - Brenda
- Bradley Whitford - Mike Todwell
- Calvin Levels - Joe Gipp
- Vincent D'Onofrio - Dawson
- George Newbern - Dan Lynch, a college student
- John Ford Noonan - "Handsome" John Pruitt
- John Davis Chandler - Bleak
- Ron Canada - Graydon, Bleak's second in command
- Albert Collins - himself; a player in a Chicago Blues club
- Lolita Davidovich - Sue Ann
- Clark Johnson - Black Gang Leader
