An old Disney trunk item dusted up with a few four-letter words and trotted out under the company's adult Touchstone banner. Elisabeth Shue is the babysitter who lurches into a kind of junior-grade After Hours when her best friend calls up in trouble and she's forced to take her mother's car, her young charge and two 15-year-olds on a ride into the big city that turns into a nightmare of often bare-faced contrivance, with some really annoying characters. The talented Shue tries very hard to make something of it, and the film spurts into life when she's forced to break into an impromptu 'Babysitting Blues' after bursting on to a nightclub stage hotly pursued by a couple of comic gangsters led by old sad-eyes John (Davis) Chandler. Shue carries the sequence through with delightful verve. Otherwise you can only sympathise as she yelps 'This is not funny' during one of her misadventures. An old-fashioned Disney night on the town, then, but alas no longer one for younger kids. Originally known in America as Adventures in Babysitting.

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