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60
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Critic Score

35
Critics' score based on 11 reviews.
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all i know is that when im a wife/mother, i'm hiring the ugliest most awkward teenager on the block as my babysitter.

January 02,2009
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There's no getting around the fact that Ross's whole cynical premise is based on the lurid male assumption that nubile, college-bound teens have few qualms about selling themselves, a fantasy as deluded as the targets of Ross's barbed arrows.Full Review

Ken Fox
TV Guide

The film remains engaging in no small part because of the beguiling and enigmatic performance of Waterston, daughter of "Law & Order" star Sam Waterston. It is a shame she isn't given a better context in which to thrive.Full Review

Mark Olsen
Los Angeles Times

It ultimately fails to deliver on the audacity of its premise. Neither truly original nor a guilty-pleasure genre spin, the picture lacks a hook for general audiences who may find the subject matter distasteful as presented.Full Review

Alissa Simon
Variety

Attempting to be this generation's "Risky Business," The Babysitters is the sort of ribald morality tale that manages to feel sleazy and decorous at the same time.Full Review

Frank Scheck
The Hollywood Reporter

It reads like a Cinemax special event, and as good as Leguizamo and Waterston are, the skeevy, fantasy-fulfillment plot that drives David Ross' movie is uncomfortably risky business.Full Review

Joe Neumaier
New York Daily News
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