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- 2024
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- 1 h 39 m
- 2024
- R
- Iconic Events Releasing
- 1 h 39 m
Summary Tanya finds her summer plans canceled when her mom jets off for a last-minute retreat and the elderly babysitter who arrives at her door unexpectedly passes away.
Directed By: Wade Allain-Marcus
Written By: Chuck Hayward, Neil Landau, Tara Ison
In Theaters Now
- 2024
- R
- Iconic Events Releasing
- 1 h 39 m
- 2024
- R
- Iconic Events Releasing
- 1 h 39 m
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
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Summary Tanya finds her summer plans canceled when her mom jets off for a last-minute retreat and the elderly babysitter who arrives at her door unexpectedly passes away.
Directed By: Wade Allain-Marcus
Written By: Chuck Hayward, Neil Landau, Tara Ison
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
62
60% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
40% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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It’s a snappy, gutsy comedy about how kids are spoiled and ignorant, and yet the adult workplace is only passingly more mature.
Genuinely funny, charming and sincere, it’s a respectful and revelatory update in a world where those are few and far between.
Emmy-nominated screenplay writer Chuck Hayward (Dear White People, Ted Lesso) and director Wade Allain-Marcus (Grown-ish, Insecure) bring some impressive cultural and emotional nuances to the story.
Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead is surprisingly authentic and fun for this kind of nostalgia-baiting remake material, which is naturally formulaic. It’s the focus on character and allowing the actors to shine that makes this one sing, and it should make a star out of Jones, who, like her character, manages to hold it all together.
Jones has many good moments, and “Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead” is a decent remake of a decent movie.
After its darkly comic set-up, the mild proceedings seem generally undercooked, lacking the subversiveness that could have given the remake a reason for being. It coasts along mainly on the charms of Jones, who displays considerable comic chops as the beleaguered Tanya.
On some level you can only give a remake so much blame for making the same mistakes as its predecessor, but this one certainly doesn’t get credit for fixing them either.
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