The Sitter

R

Released Dec 9, 2011

1 hr. 21 min.

Comedy

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21%

112 Reviews

Tomatometer

39%

25,000+ Ratings

Audience Score

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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Critics Consensus

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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Ricky C

Possibly the worst movie I have ever witnessed. Even a 10/100 is too high of a score.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/08/24

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craig g

simple slap stick situational humor; not too complex but entertaining. Chuckled out loud a decent amount of times and suspensional enough to keep you focused. Was surprised at low ratings by others on here. Its 2023 and I have gone to most movies this year if this came out I would probably put in my top 5 of the 20 or so movies I have seen this year. Saying that I think movies are low budget now adays.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

12/20/23

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Emmett R

This movie is so odd and bizzare, it's so funny

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/05/23

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A. D

it is like the creators tried very hard to make this movie super-adventurous, but it felt boring. I also think it was wrong to expose kids to such inappropriate scenes. They are just kids, for goodness sake. Verdict: MEH.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

09/25/22

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georgan g

Not the greatest movie every made but fun if you just want to laugh.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

The male version of Adventures in Babysitting from 1987. Jonah Hill in place of Elizabeth Shue. Nothing new. Although a fun watch.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/18/23

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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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The movie is funny right from the start, tells its story economically and never comes close to wearing out its welcome.

Rated: 3/4

Jan 27, 2012

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Empire Magazine

Rated: 2/5

Jan 20, 2012

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

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.

Rated: 1/5

Jan 19, 2012

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Director David Gordon Green [...] does little to prevent this derivative riff on Adventures in Babysitting from being compared to better movies that inspired it.

Rated: 1.5/4

Mar 6, 2023

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

A solid matinee choice.

Rated: 3.0/4.0

Sep 23, 2020

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Kelly Jane Torrance

Washington Examiner

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.

Rated: 1.5/4

Jan 4, 2019

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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
Executive Producer: Jonah Hill, Donald J. Lee Jr., Lisa Muskat, Josh Bratman
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

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