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Nobody Leaves this Place without Singing the Blues / Dustin Rowles

Trade News | March 31, 2009 | Comments (26)

One of the best young directors in Hollywood has just landed his next movie. Jonathon Levine — who we have devoted entirely too much space to on these pages thanks to his enormously fantastic The Wackness, and his sharp little horror movie, the as-yet-unreleased in America, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (seriously, get your hands on both of them — it’ll be the best double feature you’ve seen in years) — has signed on to direct The Sitter.

The Sitter is being described as a cross between Superbad and Adventures in Babysitting (because even indie flicks have to be described as crosses between something). It’d being produced by Fox Atomic. The Sitter follows a college student, suspended for the semester and living back at home with his single mom, who has a night to remember when he gets talked into baby-sitting the eccentric kids next door — two boys and a wild 8-year-old girl.

Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka wrote the screenplay.

And speaking of Adventures in Babysitting, I wonder whatever happened to the sequel, More Adventures in Babysitting, which was set to star Raven Symone and Miley Cyrus? I haven’t heard a thing about it, but it’s still apparently set for release in 2010. Something not to look forward to.


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Like you need to make AiB any cooler. It had Thor. Thor!

Also, I like the protagonist of AiB as a woman. Why do only dudes get to be in dude comedies?

Posted by: twig at March 31, 2009 9:40 AM

Baby, baby, the babysitting blues....

Ah, fuck... Thanks for that, Dustin. BTW, you looked real cute with the long blonde hair and your little hammer.

Posted by: Sofía at March 31, 2009 9:51 AM

...More Adventures in Babysitting, which was set to star Raven Symone and Miley Cyrus?

This is a joke right? Please?

*Checks IMDB*

Whew. You had me worried Rowles. There is something called Further Adventures In Babysitting which is obviously something completely unrelated and will not star anyone.

Posted by: admin at March 31, 2009 9:52 AM

The Sitter follows a college student, suspended for the semester and living back at home with his single mom, who has a night to remember when he gets talked into baby-sitting the eccentric kids next door — two boys and a wild 8-year-old girl.

Now, it's quite possible I'm a pervert. In fact, I am a pervert, but this still sounds like the plot of an illegal Mexican porn film.

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at March 31, 2009 9:58 AM

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at March 31, 2009 9:58 AM


Or a new comedy remake of Babel...

Posted by: Mike R. at March 31, 2009 10:00 AM

Stop reading my mind, Tracer Bullet.

Posted by: Shadows of Dakaron at March 31, 2009 10:06 AM

Y'all are some Raven Haters get off the Haterade....I will support that Sequel. Look out for That's So Raven: The Movie in 2010 google it is going to happen.

Posted by: Tru-Dru at March 31, 2009 10:19 AM

I wonder whatever happened to the sequel

Obviously someone told Clark Johnson about it.

And that...was that.

He wasn't kidding though, admin. That was a real threat. No, REALLY.

the eccentric kids next door — two boys and a wild 8-year-old girl.

"Cross" nothin'. Sounds like the crap I'd write in English classes when I had to do an original story (and I cannot write original fiction to save my life). In other words, it sounds like it is just "Adventures In Babysitting", minus everything good about "Adventures In Babysitting", of which Elisabeth Shue is merely the peak.

MAN do I have it bad for her.

Posted by: Jay at March 31, 2009 10:25 AM

I still covet Elizabeth Shue's purple shoes and rainbow scarf from the movie.

Posted by: Kolby at March 31, 2009 10:42 AM

Nobody leaves Pajiba without singing the blues.

I love that Vincent D'Onofrio was the mechanic/Thor in AiB less than week after he played Private Pyle in Full Metal Jacket.

Posted by: branded at March 31, 2009 10:45 AM

Sorry, Tru-Dru, the Haterade goes perfectly with my morning bowl of Fearios. I can't just crack open a can of Whoop Ass that early in the morning, you know. That would be WRONG.

Much like fucking Cyrus or Symone coming NEAR anything related to AiB.

As far as a That's So Raven movie... isn't that chick, like, 25ish now? Why don't they just wait until she's 30, then they can combine everything that is horrible about That's So Raven with some sort of Confessions of a Shopaholic- or He's Just Not That Into You-style plot. Then Hell could shut down Pandemonium and Dis, and do nothing but screen that movie for all of eternity. Now THAT'S damnation!

Posted by: PaleoLithchick at March 31, 2009 10:51 AM

I have an American friend who was always telling me how much she hated That's so Raven, and I mostly laughed it off. Until I went to Brazil and caught it in Portuguese. It was oddly mesmerizing, like watching a small dog mounting a tall one. Plus, Raven's eyebrows are seriously fucked up.

Posted by: Sofía at March 31, 2009 10:58 AM

Elizabeth Shue is a perfect example of why the 80's were so great.

If it wasn't for Reagan and Thatcher, I'd move back there.

Posted by: Bane at March 31, 2009 11:04 AM

Thatcher was hot.

Posted by: admin at March 31, 2009 11:16 AM

I love the scene where the friend that Elizabeth Shue is trying to get to is in the bus station trying to buy a hot dog with a check that's already been signed over by at least two people.

Posted by: tamatha at March 31, 2009 11:34 AM

OK, I have watched 'Adventures in Babysitting' upwards of ten times, several of these in the last couple years. I have never, NEVER recognized that that was Vincent 'Kooky Detective' D'Onofrio until now.

There really needs to be a term for the sudden and painful rearrangement of neurons that results from a discovery like that. It's like a neural ice cream headache.

Posted by: Snorklewacker at March 31, 2009 11:44 AM

the friend

Penelope Ann Miller. Lovely, lovely Penelope Ann Miller. I could forgive her making me an egg salad sandwich.

Posted by: Jay at March 31, 2009 11:49 AM

Cognitive dissonance, Snorklewacker.

Posted by: Jay at March 31, 2009 11:50 AM

That's lovely, leggy Penelope Ann Miller, Jay. I'd almost forgive her The Shadow.

I don't remember AiB at all. It's been so long. I'm gonna have to track it down again. I love me some Elizabeth Shue.

Posted by: Shadows of Dakaron at March 31, 2009 11:58 AM

I have never, NEVER recognized that that was Vincent 'Kooky Detective' D'Onofrio until now.

I had the exact same reaction when I found the clip today. It's almost as jarring as realizing that Sarah Jessica Parker was the nurse in Flight of the Navigator, and Nic Cage had a minor role in Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

Posted by: branded at March 31, 2009 12:00 PM

Ah, the 80's. Good times. This was my sister's absolute favorite movie for years. She watched it at least once a week. I haven't seen it in years, but if someone put it on, it's possible I might know all the words.

Posted by: Jeni at March 31, 2009 1:25 PM

Yes, cognitive dissonance, but it's more than that. There's a difference between "I have trouble picturing that actor in that role" and "OK, realizing that *that* role was *that* actor just redefined that movie and actor for me." I'm terming it 'cognitive ganglioneuralgia' (since an ice cream headache is 'sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia').

Cognitive ganglioneuralgia! It's a thing! Tell your friends!

Posted by: Snorklewacker at March 31, 2009 1:47 PM

Yes, cognitive dissonance, but it's more than that. There's a difference between "I have trouble picturing that actor in that role" and "OK, realizing that *that* role was *that* actor just redefined that movie and actor for me." I'm terming it 'cognitive ganglioneuralgia' (since an ice cream headache is 'sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia').

Cognitive ganglioneuralgia! It's a thing! Tell your friends!

Posted by: Snorklewacker at March 31, 2009 1:47 PM

that was bruce willis in 'die hard'? oh...

OH.

Posted by: gp at March 31, 2009 7:30 PM

So back when I was a theater major , Anthony Rapp inexplicably came to speak for my very small department. He'd been feilding question after question from the teeming sea of drooling Rent obsessed froshmen for some time, when I raised my hand to say that I had never seen Rent, but that I really loved Adventures in Babysitting, and could he please talk about that...

...and he did, at length, which really peeved the singing-show-tunes-in-the-hall set.

Posted by: Carrie at March 31, 2009 9:29 PM

Rabies! Scabies! Emphysema!

Well done, Carrie.

Posted by: Jay at March 31, 2009 9:44 PM