Nanny Dearest

This movie has the dubious honor of pulling off the most rare of triple plays: infanticide, matricide, and suicide, all committed by a single character! A delusional and violence-prone Taylor Thompson may have accidentally smothered her baby Abbie. But her rage continued in murdering her boyfriend. After the fertility center cut her a check for $8,000 for an egg donation, Taylor has spent ten years in prison thinking about her next move on the chessboard of life. As soon as she is released, Taylor makes a beeline for little Ruby, the daughter of Melissa and Caleb Nelson, who were the recipients of Taylor's egg donation. Impersonating the nanny named Kimberly Barrington, Taylor worms her way into the lives of the Nelsons. There was an occasional clever tongue-in-cheek moment, as Taylor's grandiose plan to become the next Mrs. Caleb Nelson begins to unravel. Unfortunately, Taylor's savvy mother, who realizes that her daughter's decade in prison did not rehabilitate her, becomes a casualty, as well as Melissa's boss Jamal, who was close to exposing Taylor as a fraud. The cast is worthy of praise in making some of the most the outrageous scenes credible. In the end, however, "Nanny Dearest" offered no redeeming values. From the outset, Melissa Nelson recognized something suspicious about Taylor, yet did not follow up on her good instincts. It was also sad to witness the depraved Taylor, who had a sharp intellect and plenty of charm, fall on her sword like a noble stoic Roman. She was just too desperate to be a mom.

I wouldn't claim this movie to be fantastic, and it most definitely will never be considered a classic... However, I did I enjoy it. Yes, the acting was hilarious. It wasn't dull though, and for that, I was able to enjoy the plot. It reminds me of a film that would have been broadcasted at 3am, on public television, prior to the Internet providing alternative options for me to watch. It was rather nostalgic to endure this amazingly awful film in the early hours of the morning. I'm hesitant to recommend this film to anybody, though I know a portion of society would enjoy this film, as did I. To summarise my review... Awful acting, okay plot, amazing nostalgia.

Yet another Lifetime movie with a God awful child actor, who cannot act at all, and seems like she was just picked by the cast director while shopping at a mall with her mother or something. All the actors were abysmal, especially the dad played by Cj or CJ Hammond. The only actor that was good was Liz Fenning. I have seen her in number of Lifetime movies and quite like her. Her performances are pretty convincing. The audio was terrible. It was muffled throughout and the volume kept going up and down by itself. In some instances to the point of inaudibility. There have been quite a few psycho nanny or au pairre themed Lifetime movies with variations in the storyline which ranges from a psycho either trying to replace the mother and become the wife and mom of the family or snatch the child. One of the better deranged nanny themed movies was My Husband's Killer Girlfriend with Cindy Busby; another Lifetime regular whom I like. Anyway I only watched this for Liz Fenning. This movie falls in the 90 percent Lifetime movies garbage. Oh I almost forgot! Now what kind of choking sounds was Jamal making. They were absolutely ridiculous. And Liz thinking he was making a dirty phone call. It was so comical! Also why just block the number and not delete it and all recent call and text history instead? Basically to qualify for Lifetime script writing all you need to be is a complete idiot with just basic knowledge of English!

Don't waste an hour and a half of your time watching this. I actually made this account just to write this review. The acting was so bad I thought I was watching a Dhar Mann video. The story line is so incredibly stupid, like a child wrote it. The "nanny" apparently believes killing everyone she has a problem with will solve everything. Also, apparently police are just not a thing in this movie. It's just common to break a ton of laws, act out in the strangest of ways (in public) - like just starting a trash can fire in broad daylight in a crowded park to cause a "distraction." -and not a single person notice. Instead of calling cops, there's just ignorant over-reactions that lead to more really really bad acting.

Yet another Lifetime movie with a God awful child actor, who cannot act at all, and seems like she was just picked by the cast director while shopping at a mall with her mother or something. All the actors were abysmal, especially the dad played by Cj or CJ Hammond. The only actor that was good was Liz Fenning. I have seen her in number of Lifetime movies and quite like her. Her performances are pretty convincing. The audio was terrible. It was muffled throughout and the volume kept going up and down by itself. In some instances to the point of inaudibility. There have been quite a few psycho nanny or au pairre themed Lifetime movies with variations in the storyline which ranges from a psycho either trying to replace the mother and become the wife and mom of the family or snatch the child. One of the better deranged nanny themed movies was My Husband's Killer Girlfriend with Cindy Busby; another Lifetime regular whom I like. Anyway I only watched this for Liz Fenning. This movie falls in the 90 percent Lifetime movies garbage. Oh I almost forgot! Now what kind of choking sounds was Jamal making. They were absolutely ridiculous. And Liz thinking he was making a dirty phone call. It was so comical! Also why just block the number and not delete it and all recent call and text history instead? Basically to qualify for Lifetime script writing all you need to be is a complete idiot with just basic knowledge of English!

Don't waste an hour and a half of your time watching this. I actually made this account just to write this review. The acting was so bad I thought I was watching a Dhar Mann video. The story line is so incredibly stupid, like a child wrote it. The "nanny" apparently believes killing everyone she has a problem with will solve everything. Also, apparently police are just not a thing in this movie. It's just common to break a ton of laws, act out in the strangest of ways (in public) - like just starting a trash can fire in broad daylight in a crowded park to cause a "distraction." -and not a single person notice. Instead of calling cops, there's just ignorant over-reactions that lead to more really really bad acting.

I wouldn't claim this movie to be fantastic, and it most definitely will never be considered a classic... However, I did I enjoy it. Yes, the acting was hilarious. It wasn't dull though, and for that, I was able to enjoy the plot. It reminds me of a film that would have been broadcasted at 3am, on public television, prior to the Internet providing alternative options for me to watch. It was rather nostalgic to endure this amazingly awful film in the early hours of the morning. I'm hesitant to recommend this film to anybody, though I know a portion of society would enjoy this film, as did I. To summarise my review... Awful acting, okay plot, amazing nostalgia.