Sitter, The : Movie Review


The newest comedy from Pineapple Express director David Gordon Green is The Sitter, starring Jonah Hill, of Superbad fame. Hill plays Noah Griffith, an unemployed college dropout who lives with his mother. One evening his mother asks him to babysit a trio of children so that she can go out with their parents and, needing the money and knowing that his mother could use a night out, Jonah agrees. He arrives at the home and meets the kids; there's the preppy, gymnastics loving Slater (Max Records from Where The Wild Things Are), the budding showgirl Blithe (newcomer Landry Bender) and the troublemaking foster-child Rodrigo (How I Spent My Summer Vacation's Kevin Hernandez). While sitting, Jonah gets a call from his "girlfriend," a girl named Marisa (Whip It's Ari Graynor) who has him wrapped around her finger, asking him to bring her some cocaine. Jonah stupidly gathers the kids into their parents' minivan and takes off on a mission to buy cocaine from a guy named Karl (Sam Rockwell from Choke and Cowboys & Aliens) and deliver it to Marisa at a party.

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Author : James Jay Edwards