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2011 · comedy

The Sitter

Directed by David Gordon Green1h 21m2011
ElsewhereIMDb5.674kRT22%Metacritic39
  • warm
  • brisk
  • gentle
Movie DNA

Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Noah, is not your typical entertain-the-kids-no-matter-how-boring-it-is kind of sitter. He's reluctant to take a sitting gig; he'd rather, well, be doing anything else, especially if it involves slacking. When Noah is watching the neighbor's kid he gets a booty call from his girlfriend in the city. To hook up with her, Noah takes to the streets, but his urban adventure spins out of control as he finds himself on the run from a maniacal drug lord.

Our read · The Sitter (2011) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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What watching it is actually like.

You want a raunchy R-rated babysitter caper that's chaotically stupid-funny.

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftera rollercoastergrips by minute 5attention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-updrug usecringe humiliation

Skip it tonightDrug humor, crude jokes, or obnoxious Jonah Hill turn you off tonight.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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