The teen comedy, which turns 35 this year, is one of many '80s movies that put kids in the driver's seat.
It’s also very much at the forefront in “Adventures in Babysitting,” the 1987 comedy headlined by Elisabeth Shue, in which she plays a babysitter whose rather straightforward gig goes horribly off the rails.
They get a flat tire and things spiral out of control after they wind up in a warehouse that’s the center of a stolen car ring. They escape the warehouse and have to outfox the brains behind that operation, while getting the car fixed and picking up Brenda before the children’s parents get home. A normal night for suburban kids it’s not. And therein lies the appeal.
“What’s interesting for me, too, is looking back at the few great roles that I feel like I’ve had, and I think there are a few, and I really do believe in my heart that is one of them because she gets to carry the movie,” she said.“There weren’t too many lead roles for women at the time, for sure,” she said. “So I think the fact that the film had to have a girl, because most babysitters were girls at the time, that’s kind of nice.
“That was probably one of my favorite experiences in film, like at the top, top, top of every experience I had,” Shue said. The movie was also the basis of a 1989 CBS pilot that featured Joey Lawrence and Brian Austin Green and would be remade in 2016 for Disney Channel. “Adventures in Babysitting” also marked the debut directorial effort by Chris Columbus, who, perhaps not coincidentally, was the screenwriter for “The Goonies.” The themes of children getting the better of adults would be present again three years later when heShue said it was “so easy” working with him and that “Adventures in Babysitting” represented a moment where so many were getting their feet wet in film.
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