Inessential Essentials: The Sitter's 'Totally Irresponsible' Edition on DVD/Blu-ray

What's the Film: The Sitter (2011), new on DVD and Blu-ray via 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Why it's an Inessential Essential: Director David Gordon Green’s transition from being an American indie darling to a reviled slacker-comedy pumper-outter is kind of astonishing. One minute, he’s being praised for being the Terrence Malick-inspired director of such films as George Washington and All The Real Girls; the next he’s being put down for making lazy pot comedies like Your Highness and The Sitter. But the thing of it is: Green’s comedies don’t deserve to be compared to good movies.
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