Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead

Christina Applegate stars in this convoluted comedy that comes across as a teen fantasy combination of Home Alone and Working Girl. The premise is all in the title -- when the mother (Concetta Tomei) of a sniveling group of surly kids goes on a much-deserved summer vacation, she leaves her kids ...more

With a title like this and the moronic footage used to advertise it, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead seemed headed for the cinematic morgue faster than its title character. But the movie is not nearly so eye rolling as one might think, nor as mean-spirited. After earning fame as the selfish airhead Kelly Bundy on Married...With Children, Christina Applegate actually plays the brains of this backward clan in her first prominent leading role outside of TV. Starting out as a churlish rebel, ...more