With stylish precision, "The Babysitter" introduces its diffident young heroine and her admirers: her boyfriend, Jack (Jeremy London), his malevolent friend Mark (Nicky Katt), and Harry Tucker (J. The baby sitter winds up having dark, unanticipated effects on everyone around her.
Ferland pares away its more lurid possibilities and instead concentrates on plumbing the depths of character. Ferland has skillfully coaxed a linear narrative out of a fragmented Robert Coover story, weaving a web of sexual fantasy around the baby sitter's provocative presence. Previously released on video, "The Babysitter" has been imaginatively rescued by the Film Forum not only as a star vehicle but also as an impressive debut for Guy Ferland, its writer and director. Cool and naive on the surface, she comes alive in the other characters' furtive, overheated daydreams. Used in her first films as a rock-video goddess and stereotypical nymphet, she is much more clever here, playing what effectively is a dual role.
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Silverstone, who made this film just before her comic breakthrough in "Clueless," gives a dramatic performance that goes well beyond her earlier movie work.
It's no casting stretch to find Alicia Silverstone playing the title role in "The Babysitter" as a beautiful teen-ager who inspires the erotic imagination of every man she meets.
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