The Sitter (2011) - Green and Hill's inappropriate babysitter movie is a crude hoot

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1 Time Film Excess Nominee:

Best Non-adult actor: Max Records (lost to Amara Miller for The Descendants)

The hilarious poster for David Gordon Green's The Sitter

QUICK REVIEW:

Noah is a live-at-home, suspended college student who feels his bad conscience gnaw, when his mother is intending to cancel a date to babysit some kids, so he decides to babysit them instead. They turn out to be pretty disruptive, but that doesn't hold him from taking them with him on a very adult trip...

The Sitter is a very funny, crude comedy in which Jonah Hill (The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)) proves that he's no one-hit wonder as a smart-mouthed comedy fat-face. It's a really crazy film, and the first time I've seen a gay gym depicted in a major movie, which was pretty funny. The three kids in the film are impressive; Landry Bender (Crash & Bernstein (2012-14)), Kevin Hernandez (Short Term 12 (2013)) and especially Max Records (Where the Wild Things Are (2009)) as 12 year-old Slater, SPOILER who has to be helped out of the closet in the film's only touching scene.
The Sitter doesn't live by the less-is-more credo, more likely the more-is-awesome one, which alienates many, and some sequences of the film are admittedly a little much. I especially could have lived without one vulgar sex detail from The Sitter, but it might only have been in the extended cut that I saw.
Still it's a crazy-funny film if you're up for it.
It is written by Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka (Animal Practice (2012-13), both) and directed by David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express (2008)).
Records is now starring in the upcoming I Am Not a Serial Killer (2016), and Green is busy with the Sandra Bullock-starring Our Brand Is Crisis. 

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2011 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III] 

Watch the red band trailer for the film here

Cost: 25 mil. $
Box office: 34.5 mil. $
= Big flop
[The Sitter received generally poor reviews, (it holds a 4.2 critics' average on Rotten Tomatoes) and grossed 30.5 mil. $ in North America (86 % of the total gross) and nearly all the rest in the UK (3.8 mil. $/11 %).]

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