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Don't Tell Mom the Babysitters Dead

Posted on 2/5/17 at 9:03 pm
Posted by cfa626
Member since Apr 2016
561 posts
Posted on 2/5/17 at 9:03 pm
Just discovered this movie is on HBO Now. I grew up watching this. I'm looking forward to seeing it again as an adult. Of course now I realize what a crap parent the mom is. But I guess that makes the Dad even worse. I don't remember him even being mentioned.
I do remember reading that one of the child actors overdosed in his teens or early 20s.
Posted by lsunurse
Member since Dec 2005
128950 posts
Posted on 2/5/17 at 9:04 pm to
I have always loved this movie.
Posted by Brosef Stalin
Member since Dec 2011
39147 posts
Posted on 2/5/17 at 9:07 pm to
top two all time babysitter movie for sure
Posted by lsunurse
Member since Dec 2005
128950 posts
Posted on 2/5/17 at 9:08 pm to
Adventures in Babysitting the top right?


"I got the babysitter blues"
Posted by Brosef Stalin
Member since Dec 2011
39147 posts
Posted on 2/5/17 at 9:11 pm to
yeah that one's still better
Posted by Dr RC
The Money Pit
Member since Aug 2011
58030 posts
Posted on 2/5/17 at 9:22 pm to
Don't frick with the babysitter!
Posted by Ham Solo
Member since Apr 2015
7725 posts
Posted on 2/5/17 at 9:40 pm to
It was definitely snubbed by the academy.
Posted by dallastiger55
Jennings, LA
Member since Jan 2010
27636 posts
Posted on 2/5/17 at 9:47 pm to
both of the babysitter movies were bad arse
Posted by KJ85
Member since May 2015
86 posts
Posted on 2/5/17 at 10:09 pm to
Dishes are done man
Posted by GetCocky11
Calgary, AB
Member since Oct 2012
51221 posts
Posted on 2/5/17 at 10:10 pm to
This movie is terrible.
Posted by PhilipMarlowe
Member since Mar 2013
20470 posts
Posted on 2/6/17 at 4:08 am to
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Dishes are done man


Came here to post this.
Posted by vilma4prez
Lafayette, LA
Member since Jan 2009
6426 posts
Posted on 2/6/17 at 7:01 am to
Right on top of it Rose
Posted by Ace Midnight
Between sanity and madness
Member since Dec 2006
89462 posts
Posted on 2/6/17 at 7:05 am to
quote:

I do remember reading that one of the child actors overdosed in his teens or early 20s.


The kid that played Zach in the film, Chris Pettiet died of an OD at 24.

The older brother, Kenny, was played by Keith Coogan, the IRL grandson of Uncle Fester from Addams Family.
Posted by dallastiger55
Jennings, LA
Member since Jan 2010
27636 posts
Posted on 2/6/17 at 7:06 am to
i always remember getting really excited when i grow up and get a real job that we had access to all that petty cash! lol
Posted by No Colors
Sandbar
Member since Sep 2010
10305 posts
Posted on 2/6/17 at 7:27 am to
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The older brother, Kenny, was played by Keith Coogan, the IRL grandson of Uncle Fester from Addams Family.

Most of the landmark child actor law is based on the Coogan case. He was the second most popular actor in the world during the silent film era. He was Charlie Chaplin's kid sidekick. His parents squandered in today's money hundreds of millions of his wealth and left him peniless.

So, today, the laws around what parents do with their child's money is called Coogan Law.
Posted by TigerNlc
Chocolate City
Member since Jun 2006
32487 posts
Posted on 2/6/17 at 8:17 am to
quote:

Most of the landmark child actor law is based on the Coogan case. He was the second most popular actor in the world during the silent film era. He was Charlie Chaplin's kid sidekick. His parents squandered in today's money hundreds of millions of his wealth and left him peniless. So, today, the laws around what parents do with their child's money is called Coogan Law.


quote:

However, Coogan found that the entire amount had been spent by his mother and stepfather, Arthur Bernstein, on fur coats, diamonds and other jewelry, and expensive cars. Bernstein had been a financial advisor for the family and married Coogan's mother in late 1936.[12] Coogan's mother and stepfather claimed Jackie enjoyed himself and simply thought he was playing before the camera. She insisted, "No promises were ever made to give Jackie anything",[10] and claimed he "was a bad boy".[

fricking wow
Posted by goldennugget
Hating Masks
Member since Jul 2013
24514 posts
Posted on 2/6/17 at 8:21 am to
Shitty movie but me and my sisters watched it all the time when we were younger

"Time for little boys to be in bed"
Posted by Salamander_Wilson
Member since Jul 2015
7668 posts
Posted on 2/6/17 at 11:13 am to


Christina Applegate was so hot in this movie.
Posted by imjustafatkid
Alabama
Member since Dec 2011
50253 posts
Posted on 2/6/17 at 2:31 pm to
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In November 1933, Brooke Hart, a close friend of Coogan from Santa Clara University, was kidnapped from his family-owned department store in San Jose and brought to the San Francisco area San Mateo–Hayward Bridge. After several demands for a $40,000 ransom, police arrested Thomas Thurmond and John Holmes in San Jose. Thurmond admitted that Hart had been murdered the night he was kidnapped. Both killers were transferred to a prison in downtown San Jose. A mob broke into the jail, and Thurmond and Holmes were hanged in a nearby park. Coogan was reported to be present and to have held the lynching rope.[5]


Uncle Fester led a crazy life.
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