The Babysitters

A bored suburban husband finds his affair with a high-school babysitter fast snowballing out of control in this black comedy from first-time screenwriter/director David Ross. Shirley (Katherine Waterston) is a brainy honors student who is always thinking about the future, and works part-time as a ...more

For the lanky, brainy Shirley (Katherine Waterston), babysitting isn't a job. It's a serious business. In The Babysitters, Shirley is an industrious, college-bound calculus student with obsessive-compulsive disorder that causes her to be organized to a fault. That is, until her innocent flirtation with Michael (John Leguizamo in perverted jerk mode), the father of the kids she sits for, explodes into a full-blown affair. To quote Melanie Griffith in Working Girl, Shirley's got a head for ...more