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- 1995
- PG
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 34 m
- 1995
- PG
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 34 m
Summary Seven junior-high-school girls organize a daycare camp for children while at the same time experiencing classic adolescent growing pains.
Directed By: Melanie Mayron
Written By: Ann M. Martin, Dalene Young
- 1995
- PG
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 34 m
- 1995
- PG
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 34 m
The Baby-Sitters Club
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Summary Seven junior-high-school girls organize a daycare camp for children while at the same time experiencing classic adolescent growing pains.
Directed By: Melanie Mayron
Written By: Ann M. Martin, Dalene Young
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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28% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
50% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
22% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
48
28% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
50% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
22% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
A colorful, buoyant, loving tribute to the notion of girlfriends forever.
The Baby-Sitters Club is far from an unalloyed success, but it offers more pluses than minuses and is both gentle and instructive. [18 Aug 1995, p.50]
Surprisingly, it's not bad on the whole (in an Afterschool Special kind of way), and the young stars are uniformly appealing, especially Schuyler Fisk (Sissy Spacek's daughter) and CROOKLYN's Zelda Harris.
You don't have to be a baby sitter to like The Baby-sitters Club, but it would help. It also would help if you're in early adolescence. [18 Aug 1995, p.20]
The picture’s problem is that it is small in every way. It’s modestly budgeted, and boasts a simple, unflamboyant story. Its score is bland and nondescript, the performers are scrubbed, and everything is tied up in a neat, white bow.
There are seven 13-year-old sitters in all, and Melanie Mayron (directing her first theatrical feature) doesn't always flub it when any two interact. But the film's nature and even its title peg it as an ensemble work, and Mayron's group footage looks like crude camcording of a ninth-grade picnic. [18 Aug 1995, p.11D]
This film is uplifting, well-meant, and morally impeccable, but it has the incoherent storytelling, abysmal production values and absolute contempt for its audience one ordinarily finds only in hard-core pornography. [18 Aug 1995, p.25]
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Awards
Young Artist Awards
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
CableACE Awards
• 1 Nomination
