"Babysitter's Black Book" was evidently based on a true story about four enterprising high school students who started a group called "Family Buddies." The team of four young women swapped babysitting duties to earn extra money in preparation for college. Then, one member of the group decided to diversify, turning it into a lucrative call girl operation.

"Family Buddies" was initially Ashley's idea. But it was Rachel whose brilliant idea it was to start pulling tricks. Gilli was the member who refused to participate. But Ashley and Janet went along with Rachel's plan. Inevitably, the truth came out with disastrous consequences for all parties.

In the main subplot, Ashley links up with Mark while serving as babysitter to his children. Mark makes promises of paying Ashley's tuition at Pressman College in return for a long-term "arrangement." Ashley backs out of the deal when Mark becomes jealous and controlling.

Ashley also has a rival at school named Harper, who is competing for admittance to Pressman. After Ashley is accepted and Harper is wait-listed, Harper retaliates by blowing the cover of the Family Buddies operation.

It was surprising that Rachel was given jail time, while Mark was let off with a slap on the wrist. But apparently the filmmakers were attempting to be faithful to the true story. They also sympathetically portrayed the plight of gifted high school students for whom too much pressure was placed on gaining admittance to elite universities.

In the final analysis, Ashley attended community college, and her future actually looks brighter than if she had been accepted at the over-hyped Pressman. Having learned from her mistake, she now has some decent values in her life and a clear direction for the future.

What made this film so good was the ramifications resulting from everyone's behavior. Here, we are basically talking about decent people whose lives were subsequently ruined by the bad decisions they made.

It just tells you how high college tuition must be for girls to first start a business of babysitting and then be lured into prostitution for the big money. The guys are no better. Family men, lawyers et al who saw this as an opportunity to fulfill lost sexual desires that they had in their marriages.

Yes, we see the partying, the laughing and all that occurs within our typical high school, but we see much more. We see the eventual discovery and lives torn apart by what has happened.

Although they learn their lesson in the end, there is a slightly exploitative quality to this Lifetime movie about high school girls getting paid for sex (instead of babysitting) in order to pay for college. The squealing and parading around is a bit annoying and everyone is a bit too pretty. Feels kind of satisfying when they get busted.

Spencer Locke from 'Resident Evil' plays a good girl who can't pay for college after her parents have to use her college fund so a kind father of the kids she is babysitting gives her money for sex. Ryan McPartlin plays against type as the lecherous father. At first it's a bit hard to see him as predatory after his goody role in 'Chuck' but he's alright here.

There have been a few of these high school hookers stories done on TV so it's nothing terribly new but okay for some mindless entertainment.