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The Sitter

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22% Tomatometer 111 Reviews 39% Popcornmeter 25,000+ Ratings
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 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Tim Robey Daily Telegraph (UK) 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. Rated: 2/5 Jan 19, 2012 Full Review 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 Full Review Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com A solid matinee choice. Rated: 3.0/4.0 Sep 23, 2020 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews

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Stephen C Unfunny in 1 hour and 21 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 06/16/25 Full Review Richard D Very funny and a solid comedy. Jona Hill and Sam Rockwell were a joy to watch. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 06/01/25 Full Review alan g Stoner loser movie. College age loser played by Jonah Whale. He couldn't act and still can't act. Another failure on his long list of failures for this fat no talent hack. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 04/22/25 Full Review thiago s Filme bacaninha, o roteiro é mais ou menos, as cenas são bacaninhas, os diálogos são mais ou menos, o elenco é mais ou menos, e a história é bacaninha, o filme tentou colocar cenas engraçadas, algumas foram outras não, mesmo com a presença do jonah hill como protagonista o filme não deu um alavancada forte para fazer o filme ser bom. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/09/25 Full Review Rosana B Sabe aquelas comédias irônicas, cuja critica detona negativamente, e que a maioria das piadas não funcionam, mas tem crianças talentosas fofinhas, e aquela lição de moral do meio para o final que quase nos arranca lagrimas, então, aqui tem tudo isso e é ainda pior, mas eu adorei, kkkk, valeu o esforço, e se ficasse pior estragava… Simpático, divertido (dentro do possível), alguma vergonha alheia, muita situações desnecessárias, mas tudo adoravelmente louco… Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/16/25 Full Review Marc C I don't know what the hell is wrong with people. This movie is hilarious and the acting is awesome. If you are looking for Citizen Kane, then ok steer away from this an watch all those old, shitty movis that people are too afraid to say suck even though they do. But if you are looking to laugh like hell, this will do it. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/12/25 Full Review 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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