No rules. No curfews. No baths. No nagging. No pulse.
Sue Ellen Crandell is a teenager eagerly awaiting her mother's summer-long absence. While the babysitter looks after her rambunctious younger siblings, Sue Ellen can party and have fun. But then the babysitter abruptly dies, leaving the Crandells short on cash. Sue Ellen finds a sweet job in fashion by lying about her age and experience on her résumé. But, while her siblings run wild, she discovers the downside of adulthood
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Classical in form, effortless, comic and spare.
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- effortlessdemanding
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- sparerichly built
- unpretentiousprestige
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Cast
- Christina ApplegateSwell
- Joanna CassidyRose
- John GetzGus
- Josh CharlesBryan
- Keith CooganKenny
- Concetta TomeiMom
- David DuchovnyBruce
- Kimmy RobertsonCathy
- Jayne BrookCarolyn
- Eda Reiss MerinMrs. Sturak
Crew
- Stephen HerekDirector
- Neil LandauWriter
- Tara IsonWriter
- Tim SuhrstedtDirector of Photography
- David NewmanOriginal Music Composer
- Larry BockEditor
- Brian ReillyProducer
- Julia PhillipsProducer
- Robert NewmyerProducer
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