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From my favorite movies..

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

I liked this movie until a little over half-way through (which is why I gave it a 6 rather than lower). As others have mentioned this seemed more about shaming the girls. The parents of the main girl are terrible. First they wipe out her college fund (really late into the game too so she really had no hope of getting the money to go to the college she was hoping for in such a short time) saying how they hope they'll get loans to pay her back and then when she went to drastic measures (not agreeing with what she did though) they say how disappointed in her and that they didn't raise her that way. Unfortunately what this movie tells us is even in this day and age the girl still seems to take the brunt of the stigma.

What made this film so good was the ramifications resulting from everyone's behavior. Here, we are basically talking about decent people whose lives were subsequently ruined by the bad decisions they made.It just tells you how high college tuition must be for girls to first start a business of babysitting and then be lured into prostitution for the big money. The guys are no better. Family men, lawyers et al who saw this as an opportunity to fulfill lost sexual desires that they had in their marriages.Yes, we see the partying, the laughing and all that occurs within our typical high school, but we see much more. We see the eventual discovery and lives torn apart by what has happened.

Although they learn their lesson in the end, there is a slightly exploitative quality to this Lifetime movie about high school girls getting paid for sex (instead of babysitting) in order to pay for college. The squealing and parading around is a bit annoying and everyone is a bit too pretty. Feels kind of satisfying when they get busted.Spencer Locke from 'Resident Evil' plays a good girl who can't pay for college after her parents have to use her college fund so a kind father of the kids she is babysitting gives her money for sex. Ryan McPartlin plays against type as the lecherous father. At first it's a bit hard to see him as predatory after his goody role in 'Chuck' but he's alright here.There have been a few of these high school hookers stories done on TV so it's nothing terribly new but okay for some mindless entertainment.

Sexy 17-year-old blonde Spencer Locke (as Ashley) starts "Family Buddies" as a babysitters' club with her hot high school girlfriends. The eager young women need money for college and stuff, so they decide to get even bigger bucks by opening up the business to include prostitution. The fathers include amazingly hunky Ryan McPartlin (as Mark), who doesn't look like he should be paying. He's also a lawyer, although this "Lifetime" TV movie claims to be "Inspired by True Events." Highly arousing Angeline Fioridella Appel (as Rachel Foster) seems smartest, but the cast appears mentally challenged in the art of sexual courtship. That's obviously not the point being made, here, however. Lovingly directed by Lee Friedlander this is unabashed soft core masquerading as social consciousness; as such, you need only know the girls and dads are desirable and attractive.***** Babysitter's Black Book (2/21/15) Lee Friedlander ~ Spencer Locke, Ryan McPartlin, Angeline Appel, Doug Noble