Babysitting
A birthday babysitting assignment turns into a filmed night of escalating French farce, wreckage, and baffling disappearances.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Moderate
- Complexity
- Easy to follow
- Violence
- Mild
- witty
- irreverent
- frantic
- group movie night
- party night
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
The police and parents reconstruct the night by watching a camera recovered from the destroyed house.
Marc, Claire, and the police watch the recorded party footage to discover what happened to Franck and Remy.
Franck's thirtieth-birthday weekend collides with babysitting responsibilities and Remy's capricious behavior, leaving the house destroyed.
Franck is entrusted with Remy despite being preoccupied with his birthday and confronted by the child's demanding temperament.
Films like Babysitting, and why
Project X
shares found-footage comedy, escalating household chaos, and an unruly ensemble of young adults
The Hangover
shares raunchy party comedy, reckless celebration, and escalating comic destruction
The Visitors
shares French ensemble comedy, absurd misunderstandings, and fast-moving farcical energy
Movie Details
- Directors
- Nicolas Benamou, Philippe Lacheau
- Release Date
- 2014-04-16
- Runtime
- 85 min
- Rating
- 6.8 / 10 (2041)
Cast
- Philippe Lacheau
- Alice David
- Vincent Desagnat
- Tarek Boudali
- Julien Arruti
- Grégoire Ludig
- David Marsais
- Gérard Jugnot
- Clotilde Courau
- Philippe Duquesne
Common questions
- What is Babysitting about?
- A birthday babysitting assignment turns into a filmed night of escalating French farce, wreckage, and baffling disappearances.
- What is Babysitting like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Babysitting as brisk, its intensity as moderate and its storytelling as easy to follow.
- Is Babysitting violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in Babysitting as mild.
- Which films are like Babysitting?
- Films with a similar feel include Project X, The Hangover, and The Visitors.
- How long is Babysitting?
- Babysitting runs 85 minutes.
