The Sitter – review

There is a sub-genre of American comedies in which middle-class Americans have terrible experiences between dusk and dawn after unwisely venturing into New York's heaving underbelly of weirdos, low-lifes and menacing psychopaths. At the upper end of the form is Scorsese's After Hours ; at the bottom is the Tina Fey-Steve Carell vehicle Date Night , which is now joined by The Sitter . In this hugely dislikable film, Jonah Hill plays an obese babysitter, taking his three obnoxious charges around Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx while searching for the cocaine for which his girlfriend will reward him with "full vaginal sex". She's repaying him for the fabulous oral sex he's given her earlier in the day.