The Babysitter

Plot synopsis:
Jennifer (Alicia Silverstone) is a beautiful teenager who is hired to babysit the children of Harry Tucker (J.T. Walsh) and his wife, Dolly Tucker (Lee Garlington), while they attend a party hosted by their friends, Bill Holsten (George Segal) and his wife, Bernice Holsten (Lois Chiles). Harry often fantasizes about Jennifer, while Dolly misinterprets Bill's compliments as a sign of attraction and fantasizes about him. Meanwhile, Jennifer's ex-boyfriend Jack (Jeremy London), whom she broke up with after he began pressuring her for sex, runs into his estranged troublemaking friend Mark (Nicky Katt), Bill and Bernice's son, who once had a fling with Jennifer and still harbors feelings for her. Throughout the night, Harry, Jack and Mark have increasingly racy fantasies about Jennifer.
Jack calls Jennifer and asks to visit her at the Tuckers' residence, but she refuses. Mark later steals beer from Bill's party, where they run into Harry, who becomes fixated on the notion Jack might go to his house to have sex with Jennifer. Jack and Mark get increasingly drunk and show up uninvited to see Jennifer, but she refuses to let them in. They then spend the rest of the night stalking around the house and spying on her through the window. Meanwhile, Harry gets drunk and falls asleep in his car, where he has a nightmare of Jennifer and Jack having sex, which drives him to rush home and confront them. In his absence, Dolly makes a pass at Bill, who rejects her, but agrees to keep her secret and offers to drive her home.
At the Tuckers' residence, Jack and Mark force their way in while Jennifer is taking a bath and, after a tense argument, Mark knocks Jack unconscious and attempts to rape Jennifer, who runs out of the house. Mark pursues her and ends up being fatally run over by Harry, who is arrested for drunk driving just as Bill and Dolly arrive and hear about the accident. Before being escorted home, Jennifer confronts Jack, who is being questioned by the police, and asks him, "What were you thinking?" before leaving an ashamed and guilt-stricken Jack behind.

Tags: cult

Review:
Surprisingly hard-edged Patricia Wymer cult film.
This familiar story of an older man/younger woman is surprisingly hard-edged.
Bikers, hippies, free love and jail bait mix surprisingly well in this forgotten black-and-white indie effort.
Lead actress Patricia Wymer, as the titular "Candy," gives the finest performance of her career (spanning all of 3 drive-in epics).
Wymer was precocious and fetching in THE YOUNG GRADUATES (1971), but gives a more serious performance in THE BABYSITTER.
Leads Wymer and George E.
There are enough similarities between THE BABYSITTER and THE YOUNG GRADUATES to make one wonder if the same director helmed the latter film as well.
She also appeared as a coven witch in the popular 1969 cult drive-in shocker THE WITCHMAKER.THE BABYSITTER has finally made its home video debut, as part of the eight-film BCI box set DRIVE-IN CULT CLASSICS vol.
3, which is available from Amazon.com and some retail stores such as Best Buy.Late 2011 update: the original camera negatives for THE BABYSITTER were found!
Code Red released a far superior DVD of the film, mastered from the uncut negatives.
I watched The Babysitter as part of BCI Eclipse' Drive-in Cult Classics (featuring Crown International Pictures releases) on DVD.
I think it is a very good film.This movie packs a lot of story into a very short time.
You have hippies, rock music, bikers, lesbians, sexual impropriety, blackmail, and murder, all in one spot!
And, I found the intricately woven plot to be believable and interesting.However, the supporting cast, primarily the bikers, delivers a stilted performance, particularly when asked to deliver lines with more than just a few words.
A couple of the characters, in particular, were exceptionally believable.The musical score is absolutely spot-on, for the times, the tempo, and for moving the story forward.
I noticed in the opening credits that the movie featured the music of "The Food," I googled them; but, couldn't find anything...In any case, George E.
Carey who wrote, produced and starred in this movie liked the idea so much (of a wayward married man brought to redemption through trials and tribulation; and, a little help - of course) that he wrote, produced and starred in "Weekend with the Babysitter.".
Classic Drive-In Exploitation + American Beauty = The Babysitter.
Candy, by the way, says things like: "Wow, man--I totally dig you--you really turn me on!" and "Ciao, baby!" Unfortunately, a murder case he's working on involving a motorcycle gang prompts the gang leader's "old lady" to blackmail him for her boyfriend's release.
Patricia Wymer is smokin' hot as the bubbly, music-loving not-quite-a-hipster babysitter.
Fun little movie!
One of the best in the Drive-In Cult Classics collection..
This is ostensibly a tale of an older man falling for a young girl but turns out to be such fun because the film makers, clearly worried that their tale might not hold up, pepper the movie with colours, music and dialogue of the moment.
This may have seemed crass at the time but now makes for a wonderful time capsule of a movie.
There is a sub plot involving blackmail that could have held up proceedings but instead makes for more nudity and even bloody violence.
George E Carey is effective as the older guy and Patricia Wymer a lovely and very willing babysitter.
With nothing taken too seriously, this makes for a super drive in movie, for once worthy of the moniker, 'classic'..
A teenage babysitter seduces a middle-age assistant DA, causing trouble with his wife, and also causing him to be blackmailed by a biker's girl who wants her guy acquitted of murder charges.Sure, the flick never rises above cheap exploitation.
Even the plot manages a few wrinkles beyond the clichéd teen-age temptress and older man.
Too bad Wymer (Candy) looks the part, but has trouble with her lines.
There's also a 60's counter-culture subtext where Candy tempts middle-age George with the hippie credo of "free love".
An assistant DA (George Carey) is prosecuting a biker for a vicious murder.
The lawyer's home-life meanwhile is a wreck: He has a nagging, frigid wife and a newborn son, and his adult daughter is a lesbian.
Things go from bad to worse, however, when he is unable to resist the charms of his seductive underage babysitter (Patricia Wymer).
Meanwhile, the girlfriend of the biker befriends the prosecutor's daughter, hoping to get some photos of her with her lover so she can use them to blackmail the father.
She really hits the jackpot though when she stumbles upon the man himself en flagrante with his babysitter mistress.
. .This movie would be a lot more believable if the hero was a handsome thirty-year-old guy rather than someone like Carey who looks more like the elderly FATHER of a thirty year old.
(Even in the "free love" 60's his sexual affair with a teenage girl really beggars belief).
For instance, the first time the babysitter, "Candy", is left alone in the house she calls a couple of "friends" over, who turn out to be a loud rock band complete with a couple of girls who dance naked to their groovy music!
This movie is surprisingly hard to find these days, even though its sequel "Weekend with the Babysitter" is readily available.
This is the better of the two by far largely due to Patricia Wymer.
Carey, meanwhile, not only starred in both movies, but he also wrote and produced both of them as well (which makes you wonder what kind of dirty old man he was in real life).
Tom McLoughlin, who went on to do "The Born Losers" and "Billy Jack", directed both movies, but HE had the good sense to use a pseudonym.
I'd recommend this movie I guess (if you can find it), but I wouldn't bother with the sequel..
Babysitter, The (1969) ** 1/2 (out of 4) Fairly crazy drive-in flick has the future D.A.
Carey) about to take on an important case of a biker killing a woman.
He's having trouble at home with his unloving wife (Anne Bellamy) but soon finds comfort with his underage babysitter Candy (Patricia Wymer).
The biker's girlfriend plans on blackmailing the D.A. because his daughter is a lesbian but she gets better stuff when she realizes the babysitter is doing more than just watching kids.
This thing packs a lot of "story" into its short 75-minute running time but that's okay because it makes for one wild ride as far as "B" drive-in films go.
This is certainly one of those "groovy" movies aimed at teenagers at drive-ins and on that level the film works because it's not a great piece of art yet it does keep you entertained with its nudity, silly story and insane dialogue, which includes plenty of "peace of love" hippie talk.
Another great line is when the D.A., taking the babysitter out, says that he respects teens because of their willingness to try new things like tacos!!!
Wymer does a very good job in her role as the young babysitter who wants to experience life as well as teach an older man how to life.
Stone, who wrote the story for himself; imagine that, is pretty flat in his role, which doesn't demand too much except getting turned on by a teenager.
He's pretty weak in the role, which doesn't help the film any.
The nudity, silly rock music and wild story make for some decent fun as long as you know what you're getting into..
This Crown-International release was in one aspect out of date when released, since it was in black and white, when that format, even in the B movie world, had pretty much passed on.
Though despite the dated appearance of the movie, the filmmakers did manage to pack in a respectable amount of sleaze, including (but not limited to) lesbianism (the movie's two lesbian seduction sequences are unintentionally funny), nudity, sex, and a middle-aged man having an affair with a very young woman.
This stuff is kind of fun, but the enjoyment from it is deflated by a very slow moving story that seems VERY padded, even though the running time is only 75 minutes.
I personally don't think the movie quite makes it to a recommendation, but others here on the IMDb liked it, so I think this is one case where you'll have to watch the movie and decide for yourself..
I'm sitting here stunned after watching The Babysitter.
This movie addresses nearly every controversial topic of morality: Adultery to begin with, but the list only begins there with everything from blindly loving a murderer, blackmail, under age trolling by an older married man, sexual assault, etc.
don't work em out, have an affair with a young chick who can promise you the moon - mentality is such an immature way of viewing an affair, and that's exactly what bothered me about this film.
Not here, as Grandpa dives right in and loves him some young lovin.OK, so this is the wrong venue to get philosophical, but I just had to mention it because this film, more than a lot of the other drive-in trashy movies, dealt with issues of betrayal and hurt in a very raw, unfiltered way, and I am left to consider what it is I'm looking for in movies, and, as someone who is trying to write scripts, what it is people in general are looking for.Rating: 20/40.
Just watched this little piece of exploitation and somewhat enjoyed it.
The idea that a eighteen year old baby sitter would be able to sneak her friends into her employer's house for a groovy band practice while they're away is ludicrous yet pretty damn funny.
That she turns out to be a tramp is believable but her vicious side toward the end seems a bit too much.
I don't feel like I'm giving too much away by saying this seems almost like the fantasy of a square henpecked lawyer who wants to take advantage of the freedoms of sexual liberation without facing any of the consequences.
For someone like myself who didn't grow up in that era, a lot of its seems alien and laughable at times.
I guess i would prefer this movie too some rosy glasses colored film that really thought peace and love would conquer the world's overwhelming problems.
A star rating seems really hard to do with something like this.
Overall, its trash but I didn't feel like I'd completely squandered my time..
It stars Pamela Wymer as the (not particularly beautiful) babysitter, who ends up sleeping with her D.A. employer.
The convoluted plot has a biker chick trying to blackmail the D.A. with the potential revelation of his daughter's homosexuality (just, for good measure, to put some not particularly sexy lesbian sex in the movie) to get her murderous boyfriend released.
Wymer helps the D.A. turn the tables on the biker chick.
There's some decent nudity (Wymer is the least attractive of the naked women), and, the one thing that makes it almost worth checking out, it has an awesome '60s soundtrack.
I especially loved the theme song, "Candy", which sounds a little like The Assocation's "Windy"..
Actually, I was very surprised by this movie.
There are some very bad scenes but that's what makes it so campy.
Patricia Wymer lights up the screen as Candy , The Babysitter!.
Watchable movie especially as 1969 time capsule.
While based on the old man having an appear with a younger girl, the relationship of the man with his wife adds great dramatic effect.
Of course there are the mandatory bare boobs for a film like this.
This movie turned up as a recommendation on my Amazon Prime in July 2017, and like many of the obscure titles that have come up, this is hardly a diamond in the rough.
(Think "Poison Ivy" meets "Slouching Towards Bethlehem.") The affair/blackmail plot at the center of everything probably would've worked with a younger actor, but maybe Don Henderson and George Carey were looking at this like wish fulfillment.
At its best this is a competently made "message" movie bordering on exploitation, bogged down by one-dimensional characters and flat, hygiene-film acting..
A really happening late 60's drive-in exploitation blast.
Frustrated middle-aged Deputy District Attorney George Maxwell (a fine performance by George E.
Carey, who also produced this picture) can't stand his naggy, frigid wife Edith (a perfectly bitchy Anne Bellamy) anymore.
Worse yet, poor George is further saddled with a newborn baby sun and a lascivious lesbian teenage daughter (dishy brunette Sheri Jackson).
George has an adulterous fling with lovely, enticing and free-spirited swinging hippie babysitter Candy Wilson (delightfully played with sexy aplomb by yummy blonde knockout Patricia Wymer).
Complications ensue when George finds himself being blackmailed by the bitter Julia Freeman (a nicely venomous turn by Kathy Williams), who wants George to spring her psychotic biker boyfriend Laurence Mackey (a frightening Robert Tessier, who sports a head full of hair here) from jail.
Director Tom Laughlin (yep, the same dude who portrayed Billy Jack!) and screenwriter James McLarty cram the splendidly seamy story with a winning and highly entertaining surplus of delicious female nudity, sizzling soft-core sex, and raw violence.
Moreover, they accurately peg the whole wild'n'easy uninhibited sensibility of the 60's youth culture and relate the plot in a tight 75 minute running time, thus ensuring that this movie doesn't overstay its welcome.
One definite highlight occurs when Candy invites her groovy friends over the Maxwells house for an impromptu basement bash complete with pot smoking, wailing rock music, and, of course, hot naked dancing chicks.
Best of all, this flick rates as a marvelous showcase for the utterly charming and fresh-faced pixie Patricia Wymer, who positively lights up the screen with her sweet, bubbly personality and captivating beauty.
I love this movie.
Bikers, switchblades, pot smoking, rock n' roll hippies, go-go dancers and tacos!
In this story you may find a wide range of sleaze and perversion but I also noticed a real sweetness to the movie.
It's about a man who feels like he has lost touch wife and starts to have a wondering eye for the babysitter.
What was unique to me was the fact that neither Candy the babysitter nor Mr. Maxwell seemed inherently evil.
This film doesn't only exploit sex and violence but the, 'youth culture,' of 1969.
The babysitter in question is perfectly named, Candy.
She just wants to laugh and dance and have a good time.
"If that what it takes to be a hippie, I guess we all have a little hippie in us," says our hero George Maxwell.
There is also a subplot that seems to be taking place on Spahn ranch in Death Valley about a bad ass biker chick trying to blackmail George to set her boyfriend free.
She photographs the affair and boasts that she will take the photos to his wife and his boss if he doesn't set her convicted murderer boyfriend (her, "Old man," as she puts it) free.
She also tries to photograph George's potato faced daughter, in one of the most horrifying lesbian scenes of all time!
Each shot of this scene looks like the last known photograph of either party.
This film is so much better than the bigger budget and in color remake, "Weekend with the Babysitter 1970." Watch this with some good friends and you might be surprised how much you get into it.
The director of the movie, George Carey, plays an assistant District Attorney who has an affair with a babysitter (Patricia Wymer), meanwhile being blackmailed by a biker's girlfriend (Kathy Williams).
It is not a movie that I would recommend to anybody but the exploitation completist.
It has some funny moments -- such as when Carey's character accuses his girlfriend of being "kind of a hippie." It has all the obligatory exploitation bits -- implied rape, lots of nudity, some violence with a knife.
The production values are a bit higher than most drive-in films from this era, as if the director hoped to actually make an impact on the mainstream.
His film is hopelessly naive and has little to offer an audience then or now..
Carey) is a mild-mannered Assistant District Attorney who has been given the task of prosecuting a motorcycle gang member for committing the horrific murder of a young woman.
His wife, "Edith Maxwell" (Anne Bellamy) has gone completely frigid after having a baby 8 months earlier and as a result George is both lonely and frustrated.
It's at this time that Edith hires a sexy babysitter named "Candy Wilson" (Patricia Wymer) who promptly goes about trying to seduce George.
At first George is able to maintain his discipline but eventually he succumbs to Candy's charms and things take an immediate turn for the worse after that.
Now rather than reveal any more of this movie and risk spoiling it for those who haven't seen it I will just say that this particular film was one of eight included in a DVD set titled ""Drive-in Cult Classics, Volume 3" which contains motion pictures typically seen at drive-ins in the 60's and 70's.
In most cases these movies were at best grade-B offerings meant to partially augment the lack of quality films available to drive-ins during this time.
Most of them are low-budget, sexploitation projects and this particular film is no exception.
Although filmed in black-and-white, this specific movie has a couple of things going for it which raises it a notch or two higher than some of the other pictures of this type.
First, it has the luscious actress Patricia Wymer in a leading role and she practically carries this film all by herself.
Carey performs in a professional manner which also helps this movie to a lesser extent.
In short, while this certainly isn't a great movie by any means, I found it to be satisfactory for the most part and I rate it as about average.