Adventures in Babysitting

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Adventures in Babysitting
Poster for Adventures in Babysitting
Directed by	Chris Columbus
Produced by	Debra Hill Lynda Obst
Written by	David Simkins
Starring	Elisabeth Shue Bradley Whitford
Distributed by	Buena Vista Pictures
Release date(s)	July 1, 1987
Running time	102 min
Language	English
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Adventures in Babysitting is a 1987 film written by David Simkins and directed by Chris Columbus and starring Elisabeth Shue, Bradley Whitford, Maia Brewton, Anthony Rapp, and Keith Coogan. It is set in a suburb of Chicago, and though much of the action takes place in the city itself, the movie was filmed primarily in Toronto.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Shue plays Chris Parker, a high school senior who agrees to babysit Sara and Brad Anderson (Brewton and Coogan) after her boyfriend (Whitford) cancels their anniversary date. When Chris' friend Brenda (?) calls from a Chicago bus station, having made a failed attempt to run away from her family, Chris reluctantly takes Sara, Brad, and Brad's friend Daryl (Anthony Rapp) into the city to rescue her. An accident on the highway, and Chris' realization that she's failed to bring her purse, launches the group into a series of unlikely situations, including a car theft ring from which Daryl steals a Playboy magazine filled with incriminating notes, a blues club where they're forced to sing of their ordeal before leaving, a gang fight on a train which leaves Brad minorly injured (as well as a moment at a hospital where the others are briefly led to believe Brad is dead), and a final incident with the car theft ring on the Smurfit-Stone Building in Chicago.

Adventures in Babysitting was adapted into a very short-lived American television show of the same name in 1989. The series starred Jennifer Guthrie as Chris Parker, Joey Lawrence and Courtney Peldon as Brad and Sara Anderson, Ariana Mohit as Brenda, and Brian Austin Green as Daryl.

In 2005, it was announced that Lynda Obst and Walt Disney Pictures were developing a remake of the film.[1]

[edit] Trivia

First PG-13 film released by a Disney film division.

The film was released as "A Night on the Town" in the United Kingdom.

Sara is a fan of The Mighty Thor. In one scene, when Chris, Brad, Sara and Daryl pick up Chris's car at a mechanic's garage, they meet the mechanic, Dawson (Vincent D'Onofrio), who Sara thinks is Thor.