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Wade Allain-Marcus and Chuck Hayward Director and Creator | 'Don't Tell Mom The Babysitters Dead'

Seventeen-year-old Tanya Crandell (Simone Joy Jones) is stoked to spend the summer wilding out with her friends in Spain before heading to Howard University in the fall. But her mom (Ms. Pat) puts the kibosh on her plans when she heads to a much-needed wellness retreat in Thailand, forcing Tanya to stay home with her three siblings and an insufferable babysitter instead.

Following the unexpected, and bittersweet, death of their elderly babysitter (June Squibb), Tanya gets a job working for the confident and ambitious Rose (Nicole Richie) at a fledgling fashion retailer. As if managing a corporate job weren’t enough, she’s also juggling taking care of her siblings – stoner/skater Kenny (Donielle T. Hansley, Jr.), neo-goth Melissa (Ayaamii Sledge), and precocious Zac (Carter Young), and a complicated romance with the impossibly charming Bryan (Myles Fowler). The babysitter’s death also means the death of Tanya’s summer of freedom. She’s now left facing the responsibility of adulthood, making her wonder why the hell she was in such a hurry to grow up.

A BET+ Original Film A Spiral Stairs Entertainment Production in association with Treehouse Pictures and SMiZE Productions

Directed by Wade Allain-Marcus

Screenplay by Chuck Hayward