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Adventures in Babysitting
MEANRANK
67/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2854
- IMDb #2257
- Rotten Tomatoes #2296
- Metacritic #3751
- Letterboxd #2297
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2563
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2561
- Metacritic Critics #3917
- Metacritic Audience #3290
- Criticker #2118
- Kinopoisk #1693
- AlloCiné #3046
- Trakt #2180
Every rating
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Lowest is Metacritic critics on 45, highest is Google on 92.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A teenager's planned quiet evening of babysitting is completely upended when her best friend calls from a downtown bus station in desperate need of help. She packs the two kids into the family station wagon and heads into the city, embarking on a wild night of misadventures and run-ins with criminals.
Details
- Director
- Chris Columbus
- Writer
- David Simkins
- Released
- 1 July 1987
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $7.0M
- Box office
- $34.4M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 1 nomination
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Awards & nominations
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| Kids' Choice Award 1988 | Favorite Movie | Nominee |
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