Wholesome, otherwise known as insipid, comedy about a septet of barely or nearly pubescent girls who, between school years, expand their baby-sitting service into a full-scale day-care center. Conflict is padded-gloved: one of the girls needs to pass a make-up exam in order to continue her membership in the club; another struggles over the pros and cons of disclosing her diabetes and her true age to a hunky 17-year-old from Switzerland; another is trying to keep a secret of the reappearance of her derelict dad. The girls' acting, under the coaching of first-time director and long-time actress Melanie Mayron, is fittingly sitcommy. Only the winsome Schuyler Fisk, chasing some credible and complex emotions as the paternally deprived girl, reaches a higher plane. Ellen Burstyn, Peter Horton, Brooke Adams, Bruce Davison. (1995) — Duncan Shepherd
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