• Release Date: May 9, 2008
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Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 11 Critics What's this?

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Generally favorable reviews- based on 5 Ratings

  • Summary: Sixteen-year-old Shirley Lyner is an honor student working as a babysitter and saving for college. She's developed a crush on Michael Beltran, the father of two of her babysitting regulars. One night on the way home, Michael and Shirley kiss, and he pays her a little something extra. They continue their affair, using the nights Shirley babysits to cover for their time together. Soon Shirley finds herself becoming a high school Heidi Fleiss, taking a percentage every time one of her friends babysits for the married men. But it's only a matter of time before Shirley starts to lose control of her operation and her tightly wound world begins to unravel. (Peace Arch Entertainment) Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 11
  2. Negative: 5 out of 11
  1. Reviewed by: Kamal AL-Solaylee
    75
    If Leguizamo imports a hint of pathos into his performance, Waterston adds a dollop of menace to hers, delivering another of Ross's attacks on what separates girls from men. In this world, women are their own worst enemy.
  2. Reviewed by: Mark Olsen
    60
    The film remains engaging in no small part because of the beguiling and enigmatic performance of Waterston, daughter of "Law & Order" star Sam Waterston. It is a shame she isn't given a better context in which to thrive.
  3. The premise is out of '70s porn, and so is the overbroad satire and almost total lack of conviction.
  4. Reviewed by: Ed Gonzalez
    30
    Ultimately, the film's view of female self-loathing and girl-on-girl exploitation is woefully reductive and painful.

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