![]() ![]() Died of natural causes." The next morning, more panic ensues when, while taking Mrs. Sturak's body in a trunk, and drop it off anonymously at the local morgue with a note reading: "Nice old lady inside. The five Crandell children panic and debate calling the police, or their mother in Australia, but Sue Ellen realizes that doing so jeopardizes any chance for summer fun for their mother will no doubt return and unfairly blame them for Mrs. dead of a heart attack while in her sleep. The moment they move in to confront her, however, they discover Mrs. ![]() ![]() That evening, Sue Ellen inspires her siblings to rise up against Mrs. Kenny flees from the house to hang out with his fellow outgoing stoner friends all day, leaving behind Sue Ellen and the rest of his siblings. Crandell departs: an iron-fist-ed, whistle-blowing, no-nonsense disciplinarian. Sturak reveals her true colors the moment Mrs. Crandell (Concetta Tomei) has hired as a live-in babysitter for Sue Ellen and her younger siblings: 16-year-old Kenny (Keith Coogan), a heavy metal-loving stoner 13-year-old Zach (Christopher Pettiet), a romantic ladies' man 11-year-old Melissa (Danielle Harris), an athletic tomboy and eight-year-old game show addict Walter (Robert Hy Gorman). After arriving home, Sue Ellen's dreams are then abruptly curtailed upon the arrival of elderly Mrs. In the opening scene, Sue Ellen tells her friends at the clothing shop about her thoughts of a fun-filled summer of freedom in the rural Los Angeles suburbs while the rest of her friends are planning a trip to Europe, with Sue Ellen staying behind, unable to afford going abroad. Sue Ellen Crandell (Christina Applegate) is a 17-year-old high school graduate and dream teen who looks forward to the summer when her divorced mother will be in Australia all summer. But suddenly, the garment firm is set to go under, and Sue Ellen must use her teen fashion sense to save the company and her job. Her deception looks to be working out: Sue Ellen manages to hold off office ladykiller Gus, avoids exposure by the embittered receptionist, borrows money from the company's petty-cash box for household incidentals, and continues a relationship with restaurant employee Bryan. The company's vice president, Rose Lindsey, is so impressed by her resume' that she hires her on the spot as her executive assistant. 17-year-old Sue Ellen tries working at a fast-food restaurant, but she can't stand the grease, so she puts together a false resume', poses as a twentysomething, and applies for a receptionist job at a garment-manufacturing company. Sturak, the kids have to fend for themselves to make ends meet. But when they discover that the money has been buried with Mrs. The kids are ecstatic because they think that with the big wad of cash their mom has left behind, they can have a summer of consumer madness. Sturak dies, the kids load her body in a trunk and deposit the trunk on the front step of the local funeral home. Crandell goes on a summer vacation to Australia, she leaves her 5 kids-Sue Ellen, Kenny, Zach, Melissa, and Walter-in the care of a cruel elderly babysitter, Mrs. ![]()
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