To start, there is something about this movie, just in the way it's shot, the music, the acting, that gives me very strong vibes of being something that Tommy Wiseau's "The Room" would have aimed for if Tommy Wiseau weren't a comic genius.
This film is unfortunately a genuine attempt at a straight-forward suspense thriller, and this is tragic because it ends up being unintentionally hilarious at so many points.
A couple, Linda and Mark, with a five year old daughter, Chloe, have an incident where their nanny has dementia and Chloe accidentally burns herself a little on boiling water. Both parents work so they need a nanny and one teenager who is absolutely perfect for it, Heather, shows up practically begging to be the girl's nanny.
From there, it follows all the usual predictable twists and turns of a "femme fatale usurper" type plot with the nanny obviously outdoing the mother when it comes to being a parent and a wife, only done with such huge lapses in logic that it almost feels like the entire movie were written and directed by an actual teenager with no real sense of how the world actually works.
This lapse of logic ranges from very small and stupid things (like police pulling over a woman in her car and not letting her make any calls whatsoever) to really suspect (like the father of the girl showing a complete stranger increasingly unusual photographs of his daughter in less and less clothing and leering like a pervert) to just really dumb nonsensical idiocy (like the nanny drugging and raping Mark and everyone just immediately forgetting it).
The "twist" at the end is so stupid it's almost genius. The least I can say is that it's extremely realistic that someone seeking out someone else based on extremely minimal information ends up not finding the right person and I greatly appreciate this being recognized.
