Forces of Geek hosts my latest in-depth look at cinema. This week—The Sitter:On the surface this movie appears to be an 81-minute, R-rated version of Uncle Buck, but underneath simmers a bold statement about the price men pay for transgressing gender roles in the baby-sitting field.
Jonah Hill’s character Noah Griffith is a self-absorbed slacker, suspended from college.
Needing money, he babysits his neighbor’s three semi-feral children. When his girlfriend (Ari Graynor) invites him to a party with the promise of sex, Griffith packs up the annoying youngsters and drives into the land of unintended consequences.
A raunchy, hormone fest aimed at teenage boys?
Ah, there’s the cunning.
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