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Adventure on April 8th, 2006 by Chad Everett
This one won’t make many classic lists. It won’t make many lists at all, unless you count lists of movies that need to be thrown out. But it is typically good for an afternoon (or morning, as the case may be) of fun. Starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter (talk about diverging career paths) as two high schoolers on the verge of flunking history.
Lucky for them, Rufus (played by the inimitable George Carlin) is on his way from the future with a time-traveling phone booth that will allow them to pick up some of history’s most notable characters, bring them back to present-day San Dimas, and pass their history report.
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Comedy on March 17th, 2006 by Chad Everett
This, ahem, classic, stars Christina Applegate as Sue Ellen Crandell, the eldest of the five children Crandell siblings, left at home with a kindly, elderly, babysitter while their mother travels to Australia for an extended trip. Needless to say, they aren’t happy about having someone keep an eye on them.
Luckily (for them), their keeper doesn’t last long, expiring peacefully in a lounge chair one evening. Being the considerate kids that they are, they pack her in the trunk and drop her off at a funeral home – unknowingly including the money that their mom left the sitter to care for them for two months. This means someone (Sue Ellen draws the short straw) needs to get a job to buy the essentials.
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