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The Sitter

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Noah Griffith (Jonah Hill) is stuck in a rut; he's been kicked out of college, and his self-absorbed girlfriend, Marisa (Ari Graynor), treats him poorly. All Noah wants to do these days is watch TV, but as a favor to his mother, he agrees to baby-sit a neighbor's three freakish children: Slater (Max Records), Blithe (Landry Bender) and Rodrigo (Kevin Hernandez). Coerced to score some drugs for Marisa in exchange for sex, Noah must take the terrible trio along on a wild odyssey through New York.
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With its recycled plot, misguided gags, and formula performance from Jonah Hill, The Sitter adds up to another disappointing entry from director David Gordon Green.

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Sara Michelle Fetters MovieFreak.com 01/27/2012
3/4
The movie is funny right from the start, tells its story economically and never comes close to wearing out its welcome. Go to Full Review Peter Bradshaw Guardian 01/19/2012
1/5
Now is the time, surely, for David Gordon Green to return to the arthouse Terrence Malick persona that first won us over a decade ago. Go to Full Review Tim Robey Daily Telegraph (UK) 01/19/2012
2/5
David Gordon Green's latest beer-soakage comedy contains one, just one, reminder of what made him a hugely promising independent filmmaker a decade ago. Go to Full Review Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review 03/06/2023
1.5/4
Director David Gordon Green [...] does little to prevent this derivative riff on Adventures in Babysitting from being compared to better movies that inspired it. Go to Full Review Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com 09/23/2020
3.0/4.0
A solid matinee choice. Go to Full Review Kelly Jane Torrance Washington Examiner 01/04/2019
1.5/4
The Sitter runs under an hour and a half, but sitting in a dark theater, forced to watch it, you feel that hours of your life are slipping by. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Elliott L @GreenBeans 1d Great movie. Why it gets so much hate i have no clue. I think this is such an underrated Jonah Hill flick. I mean it’s not serious at all and the kids are great. The girlfriend sucks, like she’s the worst, but it all ended up working out. Entertaining and fun for the entire things. See more Keith M @GwinsLodgeAKcabins Nov 29 WHY do they bother showing bad movies on "cable" like HBO. Many are not watchable. Want more subscribers?... showing good content would be a start. See more Blu B Nov 4 It's like if someone took like a Superbad type of script and merged it with an Adam Sandler comedy you'd get something like this. This easily could've came out in the late 90's-early 00's. The humor is terrible in this filled with dumb slapstick, way too much toilet humor constantly, dated references, and is just stupid. At first it's actually kind of good but once he becomes the baby sitter it's amazing how much it just tanks in quality and just never recovers. Everything is usbpar and the pacing is terrible. The music is just out of place late 80's Hip Hop which is so odd and half the time it's just dry with nothing playing. It also just feels like stuff just happens wih the drugs, each of the three kids subplots, the forced dual romances, the gang stuff, it's just ridiuclous and almost like a modern day screwball plot. Hill is just ok, sometimes it feels like he's trying and others it feels like he's sleepwalking. Rockwell as always isn't bad and the best thing in this with such an over the top ridiculous character. Skip this. See more Jonathan O Oct 31 One of Jonah Hills funniest films and definitely his silliest. "The bible is a hot book," will forever be one of the funniest lines of all time. See more donnie m Sep 13 i just watched this in 2025-cute movie See more Stephen C @bob25009 Jun 16 Unfunny in 1 hour and 21 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See more Read all reviews
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David Gordon Green

Director

Jonah Hill

Noah Griffith

Max Records

Slater

Ari Graynor

Marisa Lewis

J.B. Smoove

Julio

Sam Rockwell

Karl

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Synopsis Noah Griffith (Jonah Hill) is stuck in a rut; he's been kicked out of college, and his self-absorbed girlfriend, Marisa (Ari Graynor), treats him poorly. All Noah wants to do these days is watch TV, but as a favor to his mother, he agrees to baby-sit a neighbor's three freakish children: Slater (Max Records), Blithe (Landry Bender) and Rodrigo (Kevin Hernandez). Coerced to score some drugs for Marisa in exchange for sex, Noah must take the terrible trio along on a wild odyssey through New York.
Director
David Gordon Green
Producer
Michael De Luca
Screenwriter
Brian Gatewood, Alessandro Tanaka
Distributor
20th Century Fox
Production Co
20th Century Fox, Michael De Luca
Rating
R (Drug Material|Crude and Sexual Content|Pervasive Language|Some Violence)
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Dec 9, 2011, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 1, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA)
$30.5M
Runtime
1h 21m
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