The Baby-Sitters Club (film)
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| Directed by | Melanie Mayron |
| Produced by | Peter O. Almond, Jane Startz |
| Written by | Dalene Young |
| Starring | Schuyler Fisk, Bre Blair, Rachael Leigh Cook, Larisa Oleynik, Stacy Linn Ramsower Zelda Harris |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | August 18, 1995 |
| Running time | 85 min |
| Language | English |
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The Baby-Sitters Club is a 1995 family film directed by Melanie Mayron. It is based upon The Baby-sitters Club series of books and is about one summer in the girls' lives in the fictional town of Stoneybrook, Connecticut.
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[edit] Cast
- Schuyler Fisk as Kristy Thomas (13 yrs), the tomboy and the president of the club
- Bre Blair as Stacey McGill (13 yrs), the glamorous, sophisticated one
- Rachael Leigh Cook as Mary Anne Spier (13 yrs), the shy, sensitive one
- Larisa Oleynik as Dawn Schafer (13 yrs), the environmentalist
- Tricia Joe as Claudia Kishi (13 yrs), the creative, artistic one
- Stacy Linn Ramsower as Mallory Pike (11 yrs), the insecure redheaded one
- Zelda Harris as Jessi Ramsey (11 yrs), the dancer
Other cast members include:
- Austin O'Brien as Logan Bruno, Mary Anne's boyfriend from Kentucky
- Aaron Michael Metchik as Alan Gray, a local dweeb with a heart of gold and a crush on Dawn
- Christian Oliver as Luca, Stacy's crush from Switzerland.
- Marla Sokoloff as Cokie Mason, the club's chief rival.
- Ellen Burstyn as Mrs. Haberman, the cranky woman next door, who befriends Dawn.
[edit] Plot
The interweaving plots of the story are based loosely on the plots of Baby-Sitters Club books #45 Kristy and the Baby Parade, #86 Mary Anne and Camp BSC, and Kristy's Book. The girls start a summer camp for the local children.
Kristy Thomas faces problems when she meets her estranged father (who abandoned her family seven years ago), and faces a dilemma about telling her friends and family of this. Her best friend, Mary Anne Spier, is the only one she tells of the visit, and she too is under pressure as the curiosity of her friends grows. Claudia Kishi is stuck in summer school and is forced to retake a test, or face repeating a grade. Stacey McGill has a crush on a seventeen-year-old boy, Luca, who is the cousin of one of her baby-sitting charges. As their relationship ensues, she faces problems telling him about her diabetes and later, her age. This is revealed after a fateful trip to a New York City club, in which a bouncer does not allow her into a club because she is underage. Luca is outraged. Dawn Schafer must face her neighbour, who is increasingly upset because of the camp activities there are taking place next door to her home. Mallory and Jessi had very small roles, and no plots of their own.
At the end of the movie, it is Kristy's birthday and she has arranged to go to an amusement park with her father. He never comes and Kristy has to leave the park because it is closing for the night. She begins to walk home in the rain. Meanwhile, the girls are having a birthday party for Kristy in Mallory's parents' summer cabin. When she doesn't arrive they go looking for her and find her walking home. They drive Kristy home (Luca is driving). As Stacey is saying good-bye to Luca, he tells her that he will be coming to Stoneybrook again next year. "I'll be fourteen then!" Stacey tells him gleefully. Amusingly, this would never actually happen, as the age of the girls in the books was permanently thirteen. The movie is resolved by the club giving the shed to Dawn's neighbour.
[edit] MPAA Rating
PG- for some mild language.
[edit] External links
- The Baby-Sitters Club at the Internet Movie Database
- Trivia and review, from Merrill's Companion to The Baby-Sitters Club
- Babysitters Club Website Huge knowledge-base for teen books.
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