Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead

Theatrical - Wide 1991-06-07

Cast Christina Applegate Joanna Cassidy John Getz Josh Charles
Directed by Stephen Herek
Written by Neil Landau Tara Ison

Genres: Comedy

Synopsis

Single Mother goes away for the summer. The kids are first delighted but then find that Mom has hired the sitter from hell to stay with them. When the sitter dies of a sudden coronary they deposit the body at a mortuary only to discover all their Summer expense money was in her purse. The kids must find a way to survive the summer without mom or her money. This means actual work!

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A full trailer has been released for the Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead remake, which reaches theatres next month

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DON'T TELL MOM THE BABYSITTER'S DEAD starred Christina Applegate as Sue Ellen Crandell, a seventeen-year-old who takes on the role of the head of the house for her siblings when the babysitter her mother hired died suddenly in her sleep....