That evening Jeff came to the house to pick me up. At the time I was eighteen and Jeff would have been about thirty. I was also curious to see what Jeff looked like now after all these years. I readily accepted the assignment as I was eager to do whatever I could to help out my family. I did recall that he was cute, and all the church girls made a fuss over him. He was much older, so I never really knew him, only of him. I knew the husband Jeff from when I went to church years before.

One evening I was requested to babysit for a young couple. Because I was older, and they knew my father was out of work they paid me very well. Of course, I was eager to do my part, so I began babysitting whenever I had the opportunity. Another way people helped was they began asking for me to babysit. The church took up a collection people dropped off groceries etceteras. Wise words back then.Ĭhurch people and neighbors bless their souls, began to help out in any way they could. My father wanted me to have an education so that I would never have to rely on a man for support. I contemplated dropping out of school and getting a full-time job to help my family but my parents were strongly against this. My mother did all she could to keep things afloat and put on a good face, but the bills were piling up fast and it was obvious that our family boat was sinking. As a result, our family quickly fell into financial hardship. My father became gravely ill and was unable to work. It is this complicated twist that gives the film its darkly humorous tone and makes 'The Babysitters' more than just a titillating and exploitative exercise in finger-wagging moral umbrage.When I was eighteen and just about to start college disaster struck. Yet, paradoxically, the exploitation goes both ways, as these 'naïve' girls, particularly Shirley, wrap a bunch of immature middle-aged men around their little fingers, ultimately using the men's uncontrollable libido against them. Perhaps, the most indicting line of dialogue comes from one of the creepier gents who cluelessly proclaims that one day, when these girls are all grown up, they will look back on this time as one of the greatest of their lives. Even Michael seems unable to separate the sex from his own more romantic feelings for Shirley as he battles with jealousy thinking about her with other men. But always, beneath it all, there is the intense sadness and emotional emptiness of the situation, as these attractive young ladies - who are really just confused and insecure kids under all the makeup, sexy clothing and alluring bravado - find themselves getting into something they can neither fully understand nor fully control.

Writer/director David Ross aims at a wide range of targets, from the sterility of suburbia and middle class marriage to middle-aged men who refuse to grow up – and who, instead of serving as moral guides for the girls, are willing to exploit them for their own perverted needs - to the capitalist system itself, at least as embodied by the 'enterprising' young entrepreneur, Shirley, who often has to stoop to ruthless and dictatorial tactics to ensure the viability and survival of her business. When the husband, Michael (John Leguizamo), who is clearly unhappy in his marriage, pays to have sex with her at the end of the night, Shirley comes up with a scheme to parlay that into a full-fledged teen-prostitution ring, with Michael lining up other clients among his married buddies and Shirley setting herself up as a sort of 'madam,' 'hiring' her friends from school to serve as under-aged 'call girls.' But the folks involved soon discover that, when it comes to affairs of the heart and of the loins, one can't always dictate how things will turn out. Shirley (Katherine Waterston) is an attractive suburban high school student who decides to make a little extra money babysitting for the young son of a local couple. The well-acted indie drama 'The Babysitters' takes what appears on the surface to be fairly salacious and distasteful material and turns it into a scathing attack on contemporary mores and values.

I fucked the babysitters ass