A Nanny for Christmas

This is your typical relax after dinner Christmas movie, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Yes, the plot isn't all that, and very predictable.. But nonetheless this movie is a nice way to kill 90 minutes.

The acting is alright, and Emmanuelle is very lovable as always, and easy on the eyes as well. Besides that, Ruccolo put up a decent performance - I didn't really think of his character in Two Guys and a Girl for any moment - so that's a good thing.

If you want to see a pretty typical "christmassy" feel good movie, this one is worth your while, go check it out.

6.5/10

Emmanuelle Vaugier plays a suma cum laud college graduate trying to break into the world of advertising. She interviews with one of the hottest agencies in the field, where she thinks she's interviewing for an account executive position but is instead hired as the nanny for the CEO's two children. Along the way she begins to fall in love with one of the agency's male executives who is struggling to come up with a pitch for a major client. Thinking that the executive will think less of her for being a nanny, she lies and tells him that she's a "special consultant" to the agency, hoping to impress him. As the nanny, she teaches the children that Shakespeare can be fun... if you set up your own play. Regimented in their behavior by their over-bearing mother and absentee father, the children embrace their new nanny's ideas of how to do things (hence the references to the "Sound of Music").

Already we know how the movie will end, but what makes you want to stick around and watch is (a) Ms. Vaugier, who does a great job of being the playful nanny as well as the business-first executive, and (b) a simple, straight-forward plot that you can watch over hot cocoa and spongecake.

You probably won't cry at the end, but at least you'll laugh at the more humorous moments.

Suffice it to say that I had, of course, never heard about the 2010 movie "A Nanny for Christmas" prior to sitting down to watch it here in 2024. I stumbled upon the movie as I was gathering Christmas movies for my December Christmas movie marathon.

Writers Michael Ciminera, Richard Gnolfo, Jeffrey Schenck and Peter Sullivan put together a rather generic script. I just didn't get that particular warm and sappy Christmassy feel as I sat through the 87 minutes that the movie ran for. Sure, it was a watchable movie, but it just didn't really stand out in the vast selection of sappy Christmas movies that are out there.

The movie does have a couple of familiar faces on the cast list, with the likes of Emmanuelle Vaugier, Dean Cain, Richard Ruccolo, Cynthia Gibb and Clyde Kusatsu. The acting performances in the movie were certainly fair.

While I did manage to sit through the entire movie, I was not particularly entertained. And since the movie failed to capture that sappy Christmas spirit, then the movie just didn't cut it for me.

This is definitely not a movie that I will be returning to watch a second time. Nor is it bound to become a Christmas classic. But I am sure that there is a fan base out there for a movie such as this.

My rating of director Michael Feifer's 2010 movie "A Nanny for Christmas" lands on a four out of ten stars.

I don't know if it's because this movie is 10yrs old but what is up with Ally's eyebrows? They are SO thin...it's distracting. Her hair is a mess....why? Please run a brush through her hair. The plot was nothing special...kind of dragged on. Overall - cheesy predictable Christmas movie with hair/make up distractions

A movie where the protagonist creates an unnecessary problem for herself.