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The Baby-Sitters Club movie storyline. Based on the bestselling book series about seven friends whose babysitting business leads to one adventure after another. When tomboy Kristy, president of the club, has a brilliant idea to run a summer day camp, the girls all agree it’s the perfect way to spend their summer–together! But life gets complicated as budding romance, family problems and a trio of scheming snobs all conspire to ruin the club. The BSC gang learn for themselves the amazing power of friendship.
The Baby-Sitters Club is a 1995 family comedy drama film directed by Melanie Mayron, in her feature film directorial debut. It is based on The Baby-Sitters Club series of novels and is about one summer in the girls’ lives in the fictional town of Stoneybrook, Connecticut. The film was shot in Los Angeles, Guelph, Ontario and Toronto in the New York scene.
About the Story
Kristy Thomas, president of “The Baby-Sitters Club”, decides to open a day camp for their child clients. Her best friend, Mary Anne Spier, along with Mary Anne’s stepsister Dawn Schafer, offer their parents’ backyard to serve as the camp site. All of the club members (Kristy Thomas, Mary Anne Spier, Dawn Schafer, Claudia Kishi, Stacey McGill, Mallory Pike, and Jessi Ramsey) vow to keep a close eye out for misbehaving kids.
Meanwhile, Kristy faces problems when she meets her estranged father (who abandoned her family seven years ago and started a new family in California), and faces a dilemma about telling her friends and family about this. Mary Anne is the only one she tells of the visit, and she too is under pressure as the curiosity of her friends grows. The girls perform a rap song for Claudia who is stuck in summer school and is forced to retake a test, or faces repeating a grade and being forced to drop out of the club.
Stacey has a crush on a seventeen-year-old boy named Luca. As their relationship ensues, she faces problems telling him about her diabetes, and later, her age. This is revealed after a trip to a New York City club, in which a bouncer does not allow her into a club because she is underage. Luca is outraged, unable to believe that Stacey is thirteen years old.
Meanwhile, Dawn must face her neighbor, Mrs. Haberman, who becomes increasingly upset because of the camp activities that are taking place next door. Also, Mallory is in the process of writing her first novel while Jessi continues to dance her way through life and closer to her dream of becoming a professional dancer.
It is Kristy’s thirteenth birthday and she has arranged to go to an amusement park with her father. Promising her friends she would make it to her own party, Kristy goes to meet her father, but he does not show up. She begins to walk home until her friends show up in Luca’s car after Mary Anne’s confession about the return of Kristy’s father.
Luca drives the girls back to Mallory’s parents’ cabin and present Kristy with a half-melted birthday cake. As Stacey is saying goodbye to Luca, he tells her that he will be coming to Stoneybrook again next year. Delighted, Stacey tells him that she will be fourteen years old when he returns. They share a kiss just before Luca departs.
The Baby-Sitters Club (1995)
Directed by: Melanie Mayron
Starring: Schuyler Fisk, Bre Blair, Rachael Leigh Cook, Larisa Oleynik, Tricia Joe, Stacy Linn Ramsower, Zelda Harris, Vanessa Zima, Brooke Adams, Jessica Needham
Screenplay by: Dalene Young
Production Design by: Larry Fulton
Cinematography by: Willy Kurant
Film Editing by: Christopher Greenbury
Costume Design by: Susie DeSanto
Set Decoration by: Douglas A. Mowat
Art Direction by: Charles Collum
Music by: David Michael Frank
KHAA Daüirg: PG for brief mild language.
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
Release Date: August 18, 1995
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