Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead

Genre: Comedy

Worldwide gross$25.2M

Single mother goes away for the summer. The kids are first delighted but then find that Mom has hired the sitter from hell to stay with them. When the sitter dies of a sudden coronary they deposit the body at a mortuary only to discover all their summer expense money was in her purse. The kids must find a way to survive the summer without mom or her money. This means actual work!

🏆 4 nominations total

Director

Stephen Herek

Cast

Christina Applegate, Joanna Cassidy, John Getz

Released

7 June 1991

Runtime

1h 42m

Certificate

PG-13

IMDb rating

6.4 / 10

Votes

41,013

Metascore

35

Box office

$25,196,249

Edition

Base