Another fun film that just happens to take place in Chicago, a very cool place to just, uh, hang around .
Every kid has a movie that they insist on watching ad ifinitum.
Elizabeth Shue stars as a babysitter who finds herself on an adventuresome chase through the mean streets of downtown Chicago along with her three babysitting charges. I can't recall exactly what made me want to watch it so many times. Perhaps I envied the young woman who so suavely tamed both urban chaos and suburban brats. Ultimately, Adventures in Babysitting is a fun, campy film that peppered many a slumber party in the '80's. Now I can only sigh and shake my head as pre-adolescent girls fawn over Amy Heckerling movies and applaud their own sophistication.