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Another poor exploitation movie from Crown International Pictures. This one's about a tired, hen-pecked old middle-aged guy who falls for the young girl babysitting his kids, and begins an affair with her. The movie was shot by Don Henderson, not the actor, and is a virtual reprise of the same director's film of the previous year, THE BABYSITTER, allowing for some self-referencing moments. Overall though it's a kind of sad, wish-fulfilment type film with a bit of a grubby edge to it.

Sadly, as with a lot of Crown fare, this one has dated a lot and not in a good way. The film just sort of dawdles along while the characters take drugs and indulge in various pleasurable activities which don't transmit to the viewer. There's a lot of talk and none of it is very interesting. It's clunky throughout, performed by a cast of low-level actors who fail to make much of an impression, and never as controversial as it wants to be. Saying that, the director does manage to cram in a fair few nude and sex scenes for his young starlet, so WEEKEND WITH THE BABYSITTER does have a requisite sleazy feel to it.

How typical! Having turned out the delightful, The Babysitter (1969) the director and writer/star get together to do it all again. But hey, did the pair not get what made the first so much fun? I don't think so for this one takes itself so seriously it is positively boring at times. George E Carey is still effective in the main role and at the start there is some vaguely amusing stuff playing on the fact that Hollywood found it so difficult to get the whole hippie sub culture onto film effectively. But it soon drags with the wife a junkie surrounded by wooden actors and overlong sequences of cannabis smoking and bike racing. Candy is here played by Susan Romen and is fine but so coy, indeed the whole film is much less candies than the earlier one. Another sign, maybe, that this was to be a 'serious' film.

Weekend With the Babysitter : George E. Carrey stars as Jim, a well-off B-movie director who falls for his kids' babysitter. It's not hard to understand the attraction: his wife, a washed up actress-turned-junkie, is pretty damn irritating. Plus, the babysitter gives him some tips on the ridiculous script he's working on--a motorcycle gang/hippie movie. Trouble mounts while the director and babysitter are exploring free-wheeling good times (under the guise of doing movie research) when Jim's wife gets in too deep with some drug dealers by offering up her husband's fancy boat to complete a drug deal in exchange for another fix. What's funny about this film is that its predecessor, The Babysitter (1969), also stars George E. Carrey in what amounts to the same part. In this one, George E. Carrey is credited as co-writer of the film's plot. Funnier still is the babysitter, played here by Susan Romen, is named Candy, which is the namesake of the earlier film's babysitter as well, as depicted by Patricia Wymer. The most "meta" connection between the two is that, when Candy review's Jim's new script, she criticizes the dialogue, noting that "people don't talk this way." For all we know, she could have been reading the script of the earlier Babysitter film--although it's amusing to note that the Candys in both films enjoy saying "Ciao, baby!" This one is mostly entertaining, although the 1969 film is better by a thin margin.

Despite the suggestive title, and the fact that it was produced by Crown-International Pictures (the makers of a number of sleazy drive-in movies), WWTB is far from the sleazefest that you may think it will be. In fact, the movie for the most part seems to be making an effort to be pretty tasteful. This may make the movie sound pretty boring, but the movie manages to be surprisingly entertaining all the same.

To start with, the movie's male protagonist is not a selfish dirty old man who has the "seven year itch" and lusts after his family's babysitter. He's actually made to be pretty sympathetic early on. It's clearly shown that his marriage has problems, and while some of these problems may come from him, we see that the majority of the strife comes from his wife. (Also, we see that he has been making efforts to improve the relationship, but they haven't been working.) Then when he subsequently finds himself with the babysitter and starts doing things with her, having an affair seems the last thing on his mind for a considerable amount of time. As well, it's shown that when the affair starts, the babysitter does as much - if not more - to start the affair.

Also a pleasant surprise is how our protagonist interacts with the friends of his babysitter. He doesn't talk down to them, seems genuinely interested in them, and freely tries their activities. Also pleasing is that these same young people don't seem to have a problem with him being much older than them. They are very friendly to him, and gladly teach him of his ways. There is an underlying sweetness to the movie, even with the inevitable nudity and sex that eventually arrives.

In fact, the movie is actually very dialogue-driven for its first half, and while the dialogue may not be up to Shakespeare, it has a natural inviting feeling that keeps your attention. The dialogue makes these characters interesting, giving them quirks that you don't often see in movies like this. (Such as with the sympathetic junkie seen in the subplot with the wife.)

The movie is far from perfect; the last hour has some clunky and somewhat boring bits, and there seems to be no firm resolution between our protagonist and his babysitter (or with his wife, for that matter.) But I still highly recommend this to those who like drive-in movies. Hard to believe this was directed by "Billy Jack" himself!

"Jim Carlton" (George E. Carey) is a film director who is working on a modern film but is out-of-date as far as the cultural lingo is concerned. As luck would have it Jim's wife "Mona Carlton" (Luanne Roberts) has called for a babysitter that night by accident. Once the babysitter, "Candy Wilson" (Susan Romen) arrives Mona tells her husband that she is going away to see her mother which leaves Jim and Candy by themselves. It's at this time that Candy reads the script for the film and tells Jim that the slang needs updated and offers to take him to a hip nightclub. One thing leads to another and soon Jim and Candy end up sleeping together. Meanwhile, Mona has found herself in a bit of trouble because rather than going to her mother's house she has ventured to see a drug dealer named "Rich Harris" (James Almanzar) because she is in dire need of some heroin, Yet even though she pays him the exorbitant price he has asked for he wants even more. And because of her condition she is in no position to argue. Now rather than reveal any more of this movie and risk spoiling it for those who haven't seen it I will just say that this movie bears a remarkable similarity to "The Babysitter" which was produced a year earlier. For example, George E. Carey starred in the lead role as the man seduced by the babysitter in both movies. Likewise, the name of the babysitter in both films was "Candy Wilson" played by Patricia Wymer in the first and the aforementioned Susan Romen here. However the plot is more dual-edged in this particular movie with half of the focus being on Mona Carlton's predicament. On the other hand, although Susan Romen performed in a solid manner she wasn't quite as sensational as Patricia Wymer. On another note, while the scenarios were definitely dated they managed to entertain for the most part. Unfortunately, I cannot say the same for the ending which was more than a little corny. That said, even though I enjoyed it I must admit that this movie isn't for everybody and it will probably only appeal to those who like this particular sub-genre and were alive during this strange period in time. Be that as it may I rate this movie as about average.

The wish dream of every older married man is realized in this film and its predecessor. The idea that some nubile teenager might be interested in him if just for a fling. Movie producer George Carey has his fling and enjoys it too.

Susan Romen is the babysitter Carey romps with while Louanne Roberts the wife is off trying to score some drugs. After the sex is done this leads to some high speed chase with Carey getting some help from Romen's biker buds.

It's poorly acted and directed erotica.

It's been a couple of years since I watched something called The Babysitter. That movie starred George E. Carey as a middle-aged man who ends up having an affair with a young woman who was the babysitter of his and his wife's child. Carey was also one of the writers and the producer of that earlier flick. So it's with this one that he's once again a triple threat, credit-wise, and once again he plays a character who has an affair with a young woman who also sits for his child. The first one, though, had a much serious subplot and while there's some melodrama here, mainly concerning his wife who's a serious addict, the scenes involving the man and his young woman are meant to be more relaxing fun. Unfortunately, while the previous one seemed filled with some excitement, this one threatens to be a little dull due to the scenes in which George hangs with Candy's (the babysitter's name which was the same name in the previous flick though that one was played by a different actress) friends while smoking a joint as well as subsequent dialogue scenes between Candy and George. At least his wife in this one is much more attractive than the wife in the previous one, that's for sure! So overall, Weekend with the Babysitter was only okay as a drive-in flick.

I only bought this DVD because it was dirt cheap and it seemed interesting in its own special way ("special" meaning "retarded"). The movie turned out to be quite uninteresting - boring camera work, nothing really driving the story, and of course the acting is horrible. It wasn't even "bad" in a campy way - it was just plain bad. There are actually a handful of great lines of dialogue but for the most part its awkward and weak. All I could think about while watching this was that this could actually be a good movie if the script was given a major overhaul (if it were written by someone who actually understood drug culture) and if some decent actors were cast. I wouldn't recommend "Weekend With the Babysitter" unless if you plan on a career in film and want to learn what not to do in a movie.

One of my favorite parts of writing these reviews is reading all of the other reviews. As of 2019, this film still has less than 600 votes on IMDB. So, there aren't that many reviews written here. The first couple I read were from 1999 and 2001 - 20 years ago. They talked about paying $4 to rent this on a VHS tape. Holy ****... And, here I am, watching a YouTube stream that was technologically impossible back then, on a website that didn't exist back then, writing about a movie that is another 30 years older than these old reviews. Pretty cool, IMDB...

This movie sucks. The star is an old pervert that also funded and co-wrote this trash copy of other tired sexploitation themes. I feel really bad for Susan Rowen (whoever the **** Susan Rowen was), getting the lead actress role in this poor excuse for art. She was a beautiful young woman that was better suited for modeling or dancing or for a career as an automotive mechanic. Seriously, Susan, that was some terrible acting. Of coarse, it's hard to show the proper emotion when you are busy blinking in Morse Code for the camera man "HELP- THIS OLD MAN HAS ME TRAPPED HERE!" At times, she seemed like a kidnap victim, because she might have actually been a kidnap victim.

Other reviewers have discussed this, but, where the **** did all of these actresses disappear to? Susan Rowen was another young actress that played a babysitter in a sexploitation film and then fell off the face of the earth. Everything about this film is creepy. Ol' boy is way too old for this to be believable, and I think he may know what happened to Susan Rowen... I'm just sayin'...

If you ever get a copy of this film as a gift from someone that hates you, your first instinct will be to throw it away after watching. I mean, that's probably everyone's reaction. There really can't be that many copies left in existence. With that in mind, you should probably keep your copy. After all, if we don't find Susan Rowen, your copy might be evidence of a crime.

RealReview Posting Scoring Criteria: Acting - 0.5/1; Casting - 0.5/1; Directing - 0.5/1; Story - 1/1; Writing/Screenplay - 0.5/1;

Total Base Score = 3

Modifiers (+ or -): Believability/Consistency: -1 (When the random motor cross biker gang dumped all that white powder (that was supposed to be heroin, but was the wrong color) onto the abandon SoCal beach (with no tourist or housing developments), it was, perhaps, the most unrealistic scene in all of film.);

Distractingly Poor Editing: -0.5 (The scenes with the old man and Candy in bed together are some of the worst edited scenes in the history film. They are choppy, have no continuity, and seem like 2 minutes were carved from hours of footage that this old man took of himself groping this poor young would-be actress. Shameful, and not even sexy.);

Total RealReview Rating: 1.5 (rounded up to 2 for IMDB)

The babysitter fantasy is present in this early 1970 classic flick. A classic in its own right, Weekend with the Babysitter captured everything that was true about the 1970's. Let me explain. From the clothes, the music, the drugs, the parties, and the generation. Susan Romen is perfect as a 70's teenager who is just one of many girls of her generation who is playing with rebellion. Her beautiful innocents leads her into seducing a married man and making him see how much he truly loves his wife. Worth the 4 dollar rental fee....check it out.

There was a shooting star named Patricia Wymer, who appeared in a 1969 film by the same director called The Babysitter. She only did about three movies and then disappeared.

Director Don Henderson brings in a new girl, Susan Romen, to play Candy Wilson, the babysitter. She only made two films. As a matter of interest, Henderson quit directing the same time after only three films. I wonder what happened to all these people.

Anyway, while movie producer Jim Carlton (George E. Carey) is having fun with the babysitter and her hippie friends, his wife Mona (Luanne Roberts) is captive to her drug dealer.

This is not the typical grindhouse film of the 70s. It was more a drama about hippies and drugs. Yes, there was some nudity and woman on woman action, but it was rather tame.

Still, a good story, if the acting was a bit lame.

Who was taking care of the kids while Jim and the babysitter were having fun?

I rented this movie not expecting much of anything, but I was completely wrong. This movie has everything a good, campy movie from the 70's should have: drugs, sex, more drugs, and a couple of lesbians to boot. If you just want a film to pass the time, this is a pretty good one.

How could the previous reviewer not mention motorcycles, ocean cruising, flying, ski chalet fireplace, and so much more? And where else can you find Mona waiting for her husband to back the car out of the garage? Where did Mikey go? I missed that part. "Weekend..." reminded me of one of those low-budget Bigfoot movies. It certainly had it's dark moments, though. I give it an 8 for pushing the envelope.

I'm one of those "Dangerous Babes" mooks, and I was holding this title back as more of a treat than most of the others, but when I settled in for that YELLOW HAIR AND THE FORTRESS OF GOLD thing, I was so aghast at the sight of that sorry effort, I decided I was gonna watch something worthwhile after all. And this one sat there conveniently at the ready on the disk. With no fanfare, proceeded, grumpy mood. Well, quickly saw it doesn't disappoint. I'd never heard about these movies before (save one, my reason for purchase) and I am just relieved that they're not all a buncha tripe. Look, I don't mind (that much) about dated movies and low production values and yammering scripts BUT DO GIVE ME DECENT PEOPLE ON-SCREEN and this one has it. Chestnut mare Susan Romen is way way way up there as a modern-day looking girl in a movie that is now almost fifty years old, so that says a lot. Of course it's dated material (the hippie bit, and look at the hairstyle of Mary Mary), but it looks good and Susan is just great! It's a small movie, but far more likable than so many of the junk in the rest of the "Dangerous Babes" set. I would agree with the complaint that the drug use is overly long, shee-ite, sure looks like a how-to guide for beginners. But if you like pretty actresses the way I do, then there's a whole lot of watching for you here.

Of course, the story is trite. What obviously happened in real life is totally noteworthy, though. Old Uncle George wrote a script he knew he was gonna direct. He cast himself in the lead role, and arranged himself an adventure. Moto cross motorcycles, a plane, a boat on the high sea, and, a-ha, wait for it, but of course, yes, being in bed with a young, lissome, nubile, perfectly-formed, long-legged, long-haired, utterly naked girl.

Do I blame the old guy?

No. Of course not. Oh, I understand. Of course I do.

And it's really all kinda sweet. There's not one vaguely-disgusting thing in it, though the prudes would no doubt insist to disagree.

One bad thing though. And it's very sad. Susan Romen didn't become a star. She seems to have gone into hiding. To this day. Well, it was the Early Seventies, whatcha expect? Today, in something like this (just better made), she'd have been a star. Back then, it was scandalous. And a scandal back then was more like tar-and- feather time, well, exaggerating (though not completely), but you get my drift.

If the movie deserves a bad rep, it shouldn't be for the sex scenes, but for the haphazard filming as it rushes along, the further it goes, meandering about with dirt bikes, and the hopelessly inept wooden acting by the old guy himself (just hanging on for the hot chick) and that main baddie who comes across as a bit of a tortoise playing the part of a sea-lion.

As for Annik Borel, another reviewer is excited about her, and, yeah, cute, with long, long legs, but so absolutely disconcertingly cold and stern-eyed in that sex scene, she is obviously more suited for print modeling.

But I can tell you, it's one helluva lot better than YELLOW HAIR AND THE FORTRESS OF GOLD. And guys would crawl over searing tarmac strewn with broken glass to be with Susan Romen as their very own Candy.

Annik Borel is wonderful. Some of her best nude scenes are in this film, and her acting is brilliant. I bought this film solely because she was in it, but if I'd known how good the film was I might have bought it anyway. The fairly mediocre acting of the rest of the cast is made up for and more by Annik's usual perfection.

A middle-aged man gets involved in a whirlwind romance with his child's young babysitter when his wife goes away for the weekend.

This melodrama centres on wishful thinking where middle-aged males can end up partying with young women who find them very attractive. It's highly unlikely stuff of course but the film is quite a bit of fun nevertheless. It's another counter-culture influenced exploitation film released by b-movie producers Crown International Pictures in the aftermath of the breakthrough of new youth-focused films like Easy Rider (1969). I find this period and these themes in American movies to be very satisfying though and this one is yet another one I liked. It's a very melodramatic, almost soap opera style story which constitutes the main narrative thread of the film although its spiced up for the cinema with the inclusion of sex, drugs and hippies. The secondary story, reveals that the wife character is a secret heroin addict and she ends up being coerced into letting some drug pushers use the family boat to facilitate a major drug deal. So, this is a film which has a little bit of everything for anyone at all interested in these counter-cultural exploitation flicks from the period.

Interestingly, this one is sort of like a spiritual follow-up to the previous year's film The Babysitter (1969) which also stars George Carey in the lead role. Both that film and this one deal with similar material while combining a melodrama with thriller elements. Weekend with the Babysitter has the poorer reputation of the two it seems but for me this is a movie which is definitely unfairly regarded. I have always found it to be consistently entertaining and interesting and I would certainly consider it to be one of the most fun Crown International releases out there.

This is another 1970's "sex-with-the-babysitter" movies (the best of these probably being "Jailbait Babysiiter" made a few years later). They don't make these kind of movies today, and personally I wouldn't want to see them if they did (after you reach a certain age you may still harbor a nostalgic attraction for the teenage girls of your own youth, but that doesn't mean that you really want to see modern-day teens having sex with anybody). That's not to say that this movie is all that racy. There's some nudity, and some gratuitous showering and spanking. The character is underage, but I don't think the unknown actress actually was.

The real problem with this movie is how shamelessly it pandered to the perverts of the day. The male protagonist is very middle-aged, bordering on elderly--a lot more likely to have grand-kids than kids, and hardly any teenage girl's dream date. He even gets to be a hero when he rescues his unfaithful wife from the clutches of a vicious drug dealer, thus morally glossing over the whole infidelity and statutory rape issue. I liked "Jailbait Babysitter" better because it was told from the perspective of the girl and the middle-age lech in that one is treated to a heart attack(!) rather than to hero status. Neither is very realistic, of course, but even blatant moral hypocrisy is preferable to this kind of sleazy pandering.

Two things are of interest about this otherwise forgettable movie though. It was directed by Tom McLoughlin, old "Billy Jack" himself, a guy who(perhaps erroneously)was considered in touch with the "youth culture" of the day (making it all the more curious why this movie is told from the perspective of the middle-aged codger). And the gangster's sleazy girlfriend is played by Anik Borel, an interesting European actress who appeared in the ludicrous trash-cult favorite "Werewolf Woman" because the director thought she had a face like a wolf (albeit with a body to die for). There's absolutely nothing else to recommend this though. See "Jailbait Babysitter" instead.

I sat, mesmerized by the beauty of young woman, wondering how she could just "vanish," where her Hollywood career is concerned?

I want to make a comparison, here, between Susan and the much acclaimed beautiful young actress Sue Lyon, who starred opposite James Mason in "Lolita." To me, Sue Lyon had no spark, no charisma, and it did not surprise me that her career was short-lived.

Now then, you put Susan Romen into the "Lolita" role, and you could well have had a film for the ages, of its kind. Besides her obvious sultry Beaty and sensuality, I appreciate how Susan underplayed her role in the "Babysitter" film, with a maturity far beyond her years.

Weekend with the Babysitter (1971)

* (out of 4)

A hot shot director (George E. Carey) has a fight with his wife who then runs away with their young son. The babysitter Candy (Susan Romen) ends up coming over and gets offended by a screenplay he's about to do. To set him straight, the babysitter takes the director to hang out with her hippie friends and later the two have sex. While all of this is going on the wife has been kidnapped by her drug dealer. Yeah. As you can tell, part of this film plays out like a remake of the 1969 film The Babysitter as this features the same production company, director, actor and even the babysitter's name is the same. While that film worked this one here is a complete and utter disaster, which has perhaps one good scenes but the rest of the movie should be thrown in the toilet, although I'm sure even the toilet would try to spit it out. We basically get the exact same story as the previous film but this time out for some reason they tried to deliver an action movie, which is just downright stupid. This was obviously shot on a low budget so all the action scenes look incredibly bad and they really don't make any sense. The mean drug dealers are all fools and you hate the wife so much you really don't care what happens to her. The one decent scene is when the hippies are trying to explain to the old man how to smoke grass. His reactions to what he's being told is pretty priceless. Stone is a tad bit better here than he was in the 1969 film but that's still not saying too much. The biggest problem is with Romen who just doesn't work as Candy. She doesn't have any of the charm that the other film had and she just comes off rather bland.