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THE BABYSITTERS Send This Review to a Friend
They start young in “The Babysitters,” a rather obnoxious little film in which teenage high school students stumble upon a way to make money as prostitutes providing services to horny dads in the community. The story falls somewhere between satire and nastiness.
The situation starts with a real affair between Katherine Waterston as Shirley, a babysitter who becomes involved in a romance with Michael, the father, played by John Leguizamo. When at one point he gives her money, Shirley, an honor student, recognizes a good thing when she sees it. Soon her best friend is hooking for a friend of Michael’s and presto, Shirley is a teenage madam enlisting girlfriends and taking her slice of the profits.
A fun film? Hardly. It isn’t a question so much of a tasteless subject as an ineffective result. Writer-director David Ross would seem to be aiming for a film with a humorous edge in examining how the commercialism of sex is everywhere, but after a while the tale becomes more tedious than shocking or illuminating.
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