Adventures in Babysitting - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[caroline]

Both Maia Brewton and Elisabeth Shue starred in Back to the Future movies. In the original Back to the Future, Brewton played Sally Baines, Lorraine's younger sister. Shue played Jennifer, Marty's girlfriend, in Back to the Future II and III.

[tamara]

The lobby of the Associates Center in the movie is the same lobby as the real Associates Center in Chicago, including the elevator passage, and front security desk.

[toni]

Filming began on 5 January 1987 in Toronto. After six weeks there, the production moved to Chicago, IL, and later shot some special effects sequences in Los Angeles. To make certain locations double for Chicago, production designer Todd Hallowell added garbage to the streets of Toronto; however, since Toronto's garbage collecting system was so efficient, certain crew members were made to guard the trash from being removed by city workers. Hallowell also headed up the reconstruction of Chicago's Associates Center in Toronto, recreating two of the building's forty stories and replicating the Chicago skyline with a "20 X 40" Translight backdrop. For the scene in which Sara dangles from the side of the Associates Center, a harness and pulley system was used to simulate the "illusion of Maia Brewton being suspended 40 stories up in the air" when the actress was no more than twelve feet from the ground. Other scenes filmed in Toronto included the fraternity party and bus station sequences. In Chicago, locations included: the L Train, where the Chicago Transit Authority shut down a track for several nights; Fitzgerald's nightclub; Lower Wacker Drive; the Chicago Expressway; and a lookout spot with a panoramic view of the city called "Wolfepoint Landing."

[ethel]

Andrew Shue has prominent 'extra' screen time on the dance floor at the frat party.

[tamara]

Tatum O'Neal was offered the lead role, but turned it down.

[kenneth]

Brooke Shields was considered for the lead role.

[nicholas]

The scene where Brad ( keith Coogan) is stabbed in the foot with a knife, by a gang member, on the subway was filmed in reverse.

[scarlett]

When Brad is introducing everyone in the chop shop, he tells one guy "uhh great...great shirt." The shirt is for the band Motörhead and says "Eat the Rich," a single they released in 1987.

[charlie]

Julia Louis-Dreyfus auditioned for the lead role, but withdrew in favor of Jodie Foster. Foster also withdrew, leaving Michelle Pfeiffer, Valerie Bertinelli, Elisabeth Shue, and Justine Bateman as the only choices. Bateman withdrew from the project due to creative conflicts. Pfeiffer left the project and starred in The Witches of Eastwick (1987). Bertinelli lost out to Shue on the final day of auditions.

[toni]

Anthony Rapp (Daryl) dyed his naturally blonde hair red for the movie. The producers were concerned his blonde hair would remind audiences too much of Anthony Michael Hall.

[elmer]

Body Count: 1 (uncredited/off screen: "the guy with the stab wound" at the hospital)

[tom]

The license plate on the stolen Cadillac reads "F3B 764". Famously, February 7th 1964 was the day that The Beatles first arrived in the United States.

[bryan]

Heather Langenkamp was considered for the lead role.

[ethel]

In 2016 the name of the "Diamond Building" seen in the movie was changed to the Crain Communications Building. Before that it was called the Smurfit-Stone Building, the Stone Container Building and the Associates Center. (Chicago IL)

[brent]

Andie MacDowell was considered for the lead role.

[lena]

When Chris confronts her boyfriend in the restaurant late in the movie, the violinist is playing the children's song, "Sing a Song of Six-pence."

[ethel]

Was rebooted as a Disney Channel Original Movie in 2016 staring Sabrina Carpenter and Sofia Carson in the leading roles.

[gerald]

When asked to take the kids to a mall, the car thief Joe Gibb says: "Where do you think we are, Boise, Idaho?" Boise's first mall, Boise Towne Square, opened in 1988.

[stephanie]

An early draft of the script has the part of Dawson, the garage owner, played by an extremely unfeminine woman and the scene emphasizes the humor of Sara and Brad's confusion over Dawson's gender. This part ultimately went to Vincent D'Onofrio and the scene as it appears in the film plays with Sara's fascination with the comic book hero Thor and has her confusing Dawson with her comic book hero (to Sara he's cleverly disguised as an everyday garage mechanic).