The Sitter

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The Sitter

R

Released Dec 9, 2011

1h 21m

Comedy

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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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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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Sara Michelle Fetters

MovieFreak.com

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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Test T

I warched this on DVD recently. I was expecting a comedy, which is not quite what this is. It does have gags, but they get lost in the chaos of the movie, and frequently fall flat. The story is about a guy who gets into trouble with a drug dealer one night whilst he's supposed to be baby sitting three children. There is lots of action and missadventure, and it is not as predictable as you might think, although it does take insperation from lots of other movies. The pacing is uneven with frequent attempts at deep meaningful scenes scattered amongst the mayhem. The character development was just about good enough to keep my attention, but it was sometimes a struggle. Summarising, I'd say it was a fairly average movie, good enough to pass the time on DVD, but with nothing memorable about it beyond the explicit opening scene.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

12/14/24

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Alysha D

The first and only movie that made me want to leave a review. Save your time and watch another J. Hill film...

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

10/01/24

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Munching M

Was excited to watch but not overly impressed afterwards. Very unrealistic and not overly interesting plot. A few laugh out loud moments but mostly very simple slapstick style comedy. Would only recommend a watch if nothing else available.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

06/23/24

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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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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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