Nanny Cam (2014)
Linda has a seemingly perfect marriage with her rugged and handsome husband Mark and an adorable 8 year old daughter, Chloe. But when Chloe is injured by an elderly babysitter who has slipped into dementia, Linda wants to ensure that her child is never hurt again. Initially, Heather, the new babysitter, seems like the ideal addition to this practically perfect family. But Heather is a schemer who exploits the cracks in Mark and Linda's relationship, and delights in the resulting chaos. As Linda later learns, to her horror, Heather's intentions go far beyond the mischievous.
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Great Film overall
Far from Perfect, Far from Terrible
A brilliant film that helped define a genre
I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
A family needs a babysitter and cute Heather (India Eisley) with a hidden past seems perfect. Wife (Laura Allen) installs cam. Dad (JCam Gigandet) enjoys cam. We have seen this genre played out ad nauseam.Lifetime didn't add anything to the mix.Guide: No f-bomb or nudity. Sex scene.
I didn't expect great things, but beyond the predictable and absurd story line, the acting is, for the most part, pretty ordinary to out right horrid, and the direction and editing pedestrian at best. And please don't even start me on -spoiler- the scene with the old baby sitter, who is watching TV when she suspects someone is in the house. You can hear dialogue from the TV but when we cut to the TV it's the iconic shadow on the wall shot of Nosferatu walking up stairs. A silent movie. Silent. And really, could it be any more clichéd? Cut to scary, shadowy tree branches, creepy statue.... Blergh. Basically.
I didn't expect great depth from this film, but thought it might be entertaining. Instead, it was annoying because of the corny lines and ham acting, totally unbelievable and largely predictable. I've seen better acting school plays than than this film. It starts, predictably enough from the title, with a working mum who wants to spy on her nanny after an accident the old one. Along comes a girl in the nick of time making cow eyes at her husband and being the new bf of her 5 year-old. Of course she's a psycho with a dark past, who tries to frame the wife, seduce the husband & abduct the daughter. The whole thing comes to a sticky, if predictable, end, although the last scene, the "twist", I hadn't guessed, although I don't think it added anything to the film. It was the lack of depth to the characters, the weak dialogues and wooden acting which make the whole thing rather risible and tedious. Unfortunately, my mother-in-law wanted to watch it to the end, along with gasps of "oh, what a bad girl" which was more amusing than the film itself. I'm glad she enjoyed it.
This film sounded like it was going to be like.. basic instinct or fatal attraction but it was nowhere near as good. The film starts with busy mum and dad needing to replace the dementia suffering nanny.. and of course a hot seemingly perfect teenage heather comes along at the right time. The dad and child love heather and that's her plan. Meanwhile the mum is becoming increasingly suspicious of little miss perfect - and with good cause. When left alone heather is poisoning the little girl against her mum, then drugs and sleeps with the dad ensuring it's all on the nanny cam. I didn't enjoy this movie because the story was slow and predictable with no excitement at all. From start to finish you can guess what will happen next . acting was OK. Not great. It doesn't compare to similar movies and I. Would not recommend