The Sitter (2011)
Directed by David Gordon Green
Noah, is not your typical entertain-the-kids-no-matter-how-boring-it-is kind of sitter. He's reluctant to take a sitting gig; he'd rather, well, be doing anything else, especially if it involves slacking. When Noah is watching the neighbor's kid he gets a booty call from his girlfriend in the city. To hook up with her, Noah takes to the streets, but his urban adventure spins out of control as he finds himself on the run from a maniacal drug lord.
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What critics compared The Sitter to
Find out why Jonah Hill's mashup of Adventures in Babysitting and After Hours really needs to sit on it.
You can tell that David Gordon Green was emulating Martin Scorsese's "After Hours" more than "Adventures in Babysitting," as the movie gets wilder and darker, but often times opportunities for conflict are merely forgotten about or easily dismissed as the film races towards the finish line.
It recalls its genre antecedents (think After Hours and Adventures in Babysitting) in concept – here, Jonah Hill plays a reluctant babysitter lugging three kids in a minivan through Brooklyn while dodging a sulky drug dealer (Sam Rockwell) – but never gets at the same itchy spirit of anarchy.
At the upper end of the form is Scorsese's After Hours; at the bottom is the Tina Fey-Steve Carell vehicle Date Night, which is now joined by The Sitter .
Clearly hankering for a taste of gumball, he packs the kids into the minivan and before you can say "After Hours" or "Adventures in Babysitting" or "Date Night," he becomes embroiled in one misadventure after another involving a fey-but-psychotic drug dealer (Sam Rockwell), angry black people, stolen cars, explosions, a crashed bat mitzvah, corrupt cops, missing drugs, a nice girl and firecrackers to the crotch.
"After Hours," "Risky Business," "Something Wild," "Into The Night"… these are movies I adore because of that feeling of a world that we rarely glimpse that suddenly washes over these unsuspecting characters.
His bipolar Karl is reminiscent of the Timothy Olyphant character in The Girl Next Door - friendly one moment, murderous the next.
Joe. Known mostly as Nicolas Cage's Comeback Movie—even though no one saw it —this should probably be known more as the return of David Gordon Green, the filmmaker whose All The Real Girls, George Washington, and Undertow earned him Malick comparisons before his 30th birthday (Roger Ebert called him "the next great American filmmaker"), but who took a strange turn in his thirties, moving to comedies like Pineapple Express, Your Highness, and The Sitter.