Movie Trivia for Adventures in Babysitting
Memorable Movie Quotes
Albert Collins: Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.
Bleak: Take the Brady Bunch upstairs. We’ll deal with them after the meeting.
Trivia
Sara wears a backpack with a picture of Gizmo on it. This is a reference to Gremlins which was written by Chris Columbus.
One of the movie’s producers is Debra Hill, who teamed up with John Carpenter to make Halloween, a horror movie about murdered babysitters. Listen carefully when Sara and Kris watch television. The music you can hear is John Carpenter’s chilling Halloween theme, an in-joke.
Right before shooting a scene in which the group runs through a dirty, trash-filled alley, the Toronto Sanitation department came by and cleaned it up, so the crew had to dig through local dumpsters for more trash.
In an early draft (third rewrite) of the script, there is no mention of Sara’s fascination with Thor. What is included instead is a funny scene at Soldier Field with The Chicago Bears Players stars Jim McMahon, Walter Payton, William Perry (William “The Refrigerator” Perry) and Mike Singletary. The boys invite the team members to come to the Anderson House to watch The Mummy’s Curse and when they finally leave, Daryl smuggles out several of the team’s jockstraps as souvenirs. The jockstraps later are used to make up the shortage of cash needed to get the station wagon out of (Miss) Dawson’s garage. None of the Chicago Bears appear in and only one brief reference is made to the team in the film (by the girl at the frat party).
In both this film and in Back to the Future Part III, Elisabeth Shue faints and says the line, “I had the worst nightmare!
When the kids are at the chop shop, Bleak refers to them as the Brady Bunch. In the following scene, when Brenda is still at the bus station, on one of the portable TVs, the theme music from The Brady Bunch can be heard.
Goofs
As Chris and the gang are running down the alley, right before entering the Blues house, you can see at the end of the alley that it is daytime.
Box Office Info In USA
Gross: $34,368,475
Filming Locations
20 E. Randolph Street, Downtown, Chicago, Illinois, USA (downtown bus station)
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Dan Ryan Expressway, Chicago, Illinois, USA (breakdown scene)
Fitzgerald’s – 6615 West Roosevelt Road, Berwyn, Illinois, USA (Blues Club Interior)
North LaSalle St., Chicago, Illinois, USA (Dawsons Garage)
Silver Dollar Room – 486 Spadina Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
St George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (college house party)
The Sutton Place Hotel – 38 Wellesley Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Restaurant)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Valleyanna Drive, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Anderson residence)