Review of Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991) by Roger Ebert for Chicago Sun-Times — 21 Jan 1999
Watching the movie made me think of those subteen career novels I used to read in grade school, with titles like Brent Jones, Boy Reporter. They were always about how some kid got a lucky break and got hired by a newspaper, where of course he quickly learned the ropes and scooped the world on a big story, after which he got a telegram from the president and went off to college with a rosy future ahead of him.
Those books came from a more innocent time, but Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead has been made in the same spirit.
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This review of Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991) was written by Roger Ebert and published by Chicago Sun-Times on 21 Jan 1999.
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead has generally received mixed reviews.
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