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Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
MEANRANK
58/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4236
- IMDb #3764
- Rotten Tomatoes #3941
- Letterboxd #3250
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4524
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3572
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 35, highest is Kinopoisk on 70. Critics average 35, everyone else 62.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Sue Ellen Crandell is a teenager eagerly awaiting her mother's summer-long absence. While the babysitter looks after her rambunctious younger siblings, Sue Ellen can party and have fun. But then the babysitter abruptly dies, leaving the Crandells short on cash. Sue Ellen finds a sweet job in fashion by lying about her age and experience on her résumé. But, while her siblings run wild, she discovers the downside of adulthood
Details
- Director
- Stephen Herek
- Writers
- Neil Landau, Tara Ison
- Released
- 7 June 1991
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $10.0M
- Box office
- $25.2M
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