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Midnight's Child

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I do not under stand all the bad talk about this movie; I mean come on! this was not intended as a hollywood block buster, it was made for lifetime TV. If you actually watch the movie closely or more than once, you will see that it is really kinda eerie. I watched this movie the very first time it was aired on october 1992 and now I have the DVD!

I enjoyed this show very much and it leaves the imagination to the actors to express and give. It never lets you sit around and a must for all movie goers to watch. i enjoyed the dvd.

This movie was bad and the acting was worse and the script writer should be punished.

All through the movie the director is trying to make it look like the mother has a valid reason for hating the nanny, but she doesn't. She just thinks the kid likes the nanny better, and the kid does.

This movie is a cross between "The Guardian" and "The Hand That Rocks The Cradle," both superior movies in the horror/suspense catorgory.

The scariest thing in this so called horror movie is a picture of the devil embracing a woman. That's it. There aren't even spooky sounds in the night.

However, I gave it two stars because it was soooooooooo funny.

Being a super-huge fan of The Wonder Years, I was eager to watch this film once I learned that Olivia d'Abo (who played Karen Arnold on the show) was the primary player in the drama. Had I known this was a Lifetime-produced movie with Victoria Principal as executive producer, or that d'Abo would be speaking in a questionable fake Swedish accent throughout, I might have had second thoughts, but what I didn't know didn't kill me. As much vitriol as some pour out on Midnight's Child, I didn't think it was all that bad of a movie. I'm not saying it's a new favorite of mine because it most certainly isn't, but it is certainly watchable (albeit ultimately disappointing).

When Anna Bergman (d'Abo) first arrives at the home of Nick and Kate Cowan, she seems like a shy but sweet young woman the couple can trust as their daughter's au pair. Little do they know that this young Swedish girl actually murdered the real Anna Bergman and assumed her identity for some nefarious purpose all her own. After a rough first day, Anna soon begins to fit in quite well, and little Chrissy quickly comes to adore her - a little bit too much, as far as Kate is concerned. She spends most of her waking hours at work, so it's only natural she would become a little jealous of her young daughter's relationship with Anna. This goes way beyond simple jealousy, though, as Kate becomes more and more paranoid and hysterical as the days go by. Before all is said and done, she finds herself fighting to protect her daughter from a danger she never could have imagined.

Midnight's Child has some significant problems. Kate's behavior appears irrational because there is very little to justify her paranoid delusions, and that makes her an exceedingly annoying character to deal with as the story progresses. A much bigger problem, though, comes from the setup (or lack thereof, to be precise) of the ending. You basically have one of the characters undergo a complete personality change, and there is really no explanation for the sudden U-turn in the character's actions and demeanor. It leads me to believe that a pretty important scene must have ended up on the cutting room floor - either that or the script writer wasn't very good at his job. Some might argue that the actual ending of the film should have ended up on the cutting room floor, as well, as it is rather silly and predictable. This isn't a movie you're going to want to watch a second time, but it makes for no worse than an average viewing experience the first time around.

I THOUGHT THAT THIS MOVIE WAS GREAT AND VERY SCARY. IT WAS SLOW, YES. BUT THIS MOVIE HAD A MESSAGE. HEY! DON'T WORK SO MUCH BECAUSE THE DEVIL MAY TAKE YOUR FAMILY AWAY FROM YOU! RELAX! ENJOY!

This movie sucked so bad that my hair hurts. The little girl who is going to be married to satan is so ugly. I hope that she isn't expecting to marry anyone better than satan due to her ugliness. The mother is completly insane, like Olivia D'abo would want to have sex with her pock faced monster husband. All the mother does is have paranoid flashes from the movie, but the gay thing is that the flashes are from parts of the movie that haven't happened yet and aren't relevent to anything. This movie is just trying to tell women, "Hey don't go out and get a job because when you're gone, your beautiful nanny will boff your husband and marry off your daughter to satan." but then again we can't turn on the nightly news anymore without hearing about somekind of scenario like this one.

Who were the actors in this? I'd never heard of any of them, and they were pretty bad anyways. I didn't get anything out of this movie at all. I tried to find some sort of story or message but there's just nothing to be found. It seems to be about some everyday mother who gets some European girl to come over and look after her daughter, but the girl has some kind of relationship with the devil or something crazy like that. I feel asleep about 30 minutes from the end, so I didnt see it all but from what I saw, the girl didn't really do anything wrong. Just because the girl took her daughter to some carnival, the mother goes crazy and gets all upset and I just didn't much of a point after that or even before that. It seems the mother believes she owns her daughter like a slave or something. This is nothing but a jealous mother. Just no point in it, no reason to watch.