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The Nanny Express

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I watched this on Hallmark Channel and fell in love with the story.

Where a young woman is working her way through school to be a teacher while volunteering to tutor at her church. Her father is very ill she lives with him, they have a great father daughter relationship. After she loses one of her jobs she finds a nanny position with a family where the kids need loads of TLC...

Great story...the father of the Nanny makes it a point to always tell his daughter that he "Loves her as big as the sky"...

This is the type of quality I've come to associate with the Hallmark name over the years.

The movie opens with a series of unfortunate events experienced by the 20+ nannies who have tried to cope with the 2 children of David Chandler. Meanwhile, Kate is coping with a father with heart disease, being laid off from her job, working on getting her teaching degree and tutoring kids from low-income families at her church. The driver of the bus on her regular route (and soon-to-be her best friend's boyfriend) connects her with a job because his sister runs a business providing housekeepers and nannies. That is how the Chandlers meet Kate.

She has the same pranks pulled on her that 9-year-old Ben and 15-year-old Emily played on all of their other victims, but she needs the job, so she sticks with it. She also sees in Emily the shadows of her own past and hopes that she will be able to help her. Ben begins to thaw toward her, but Emily remains cold and disdainful. This is the hardest part of this movie for me. The father seems completely clueless as to how to teach his daughter to show respect to others. She continually treats the nanny in demeaning ways and the father witnesses it and does little or nothing, other than apologize to Kate for her behavior. It is as if the death of her mother three years ago excuses her from accountability for her actions.

David Chandler is so grateful that Kate has stayed that when he finds himself attracted to her he hesitates to show it
for fear that things might not work out between them and then he will have lost the only nanny that stayed more than a day. Kate is attracted to him, but isn't sure of his feelings at first.

Emily is aware of what is happening between her father and Kate and she does her best to sabatoge the relationship. It appears that she is successful.

**Spoiler Alert**
A turn of events in Kate's life causes her to quit her nanny job, but she returns to the Chandler home (I don't think I mentioned that Kate describes their home as being bigger than the whole apartment complex in which she lives) to give Emily a present on her 16th birthday. Emily is anything but grateful and doesn't bother opening it.

In Kate's mind her association with the Chandler family is over and she is trying to move on with her life, but then Emily finally opens her gift and the surprising content causes a change of heart. She confesses her meddling to her father and the family sets out to get Kate back.

I always struggle with bratty kids in movies--luckily these do change. Kate is such a sweet, patient person and maybe a little "too-good-to-be-true," but she is sustained by her faith and that is a positive message that we could use more of these days. If you can overlook Emily's attitude problem and the fact that she gets a brand new luxury car for her 16th birthday, it is a fun chick-flick.

I usually avoid these family kind of movies. They tend to be corny, mushy, over done with syrupy music playing from start to finish. This one is a refreshing surprise!

My wife and I decided to sit this one through, and yes, of course, you pretty much know what's going to happen from start to finish. A young teacher to be takes a nanny position from a rich, handsome guy(Can there be any other type?)widower who has two bratty children. This is lighthearted fair, but with a couple dramatic elements, basically dealing with the death of one's parents. Also, I wouldn't call it a true romantic comedy because the protaganist don't spend the first half of the movie hating/fighting with one another; nonetheless, a potential romance ensues.

Two of my favorite, stalwart actors perform well in their small but important roles: Dean Stockwell as the nanny's 'hanging-on-to-his-last-gasp', loving father and Stacy Keach as the tad potbellied, sympathetic, wise minister. I love these guys, they act without acting!

Produced by Faith and Family Entertainment, they live up to their name. It's clean, and the story gently stresses faith in God, seeing things through, and love.

My one complaint, they do play the music non-stop through the movie, but thankfully, it's not has syrupy as most. You know, it's difficult to make a fully balanced movie, and I think more so with family fare, and have all the elements work well.

If you need a bit more meat, bite or uncertainty in a flick, you're not going to like this one, but for us and for this type of genre, we found it satisfying. Also, there's no nasty people or words, enjoy a few smiles and tears.

I originally watched this movie on TV and knew that I would have to have my own copy. It is a 'feel good' movie and I highly recommend it.

This is a nice movie. It's a love story and then it teaches so many other little lessons. How to cope with loss in your family, how to accept things you can not change, etc. You will enjoy this movie and its a good clean movie. So many of these movies have too much sex, cursing and different things you wouldn't want your children to watch. This is a family movie.

What a pleasing movie this one is. I will tell you right off that the story is quite predictable and the theme has been used in quite a number of movies over the years. There are no special effects here, no violence, nothing is blown-up and there is absolutely no cursing. The most torrid love scenes in the entire movie are two rather chaste and sweet kisses. There is no nudity and the music is extremely mellow and pleasing to the ear.

A young girl (actually a young woman), has been taking care of her ill father since she was a teen. She has been working her way through school to become a school teacher. The young woman lost her mother when she was very young. Our heroine is offered a job as a nanny and accepts.

Enter the family which consists of a guy and his two children. The wife has been killed by a drunk driver and the father who is a professional, wealthy and good looking (in addition to being a very nice guy), has a boy and a girl. The kids are brats, in particular the young girl who is having a dreadful time accepting the death of her mother.

The new nanny has her job cut out for her. The children have run nanny after nanny off via their rude and poor behavior. Will our young heroine be able to turn this family around? Will she able to help the two children? Will she find true love?

The acting in this one is good. There is a gentle but not overwhelming religious tone to the movie, i.e. faith in God will see you through if you can just find and keep it; an excellent message. The minister is played by a rather aging and chubby Stacy Keach (One of my favorites) and the about to die father is played by Dean Stockwell who in my opinion is one of the better character actors working today. Both play excellent parts.

Like other reviewers here, I cannot classify this one as a romantic comedy (my favorite genre) because it does have a rather serious and important theme to it, but that being said it is rather funny at times, is romantic and has the "feel." I suppose if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck...well, you know what I mean.

The only complaint I have about the whole movie is the title...how on earth they came up with "The Nanny Express" is beyond me.

This is a story of faith, of love and people helping their fellow humans through difficult times. I liked this movie and will most likely watch it again soon.

Don Blankenship
The Ozarks

I bought this movie after doing a lot of research to find some clean films for my college-age daughter's collection. I'm reviewing this from a highly conservative point of view because I appreciate it when someone will let me know about any objectionable material in a film. Then I don't have to waste my money and find out it's great "except for that one part."

My biggest disappointment, honestly, was that the nanny uses God's name twice in an exclamation. I hoped that in a movie made by a Christian company, that kind of language would be missing. It is one of the basic ten commandments, after all. There was no other swearing in this movie.

For a low-budget film, I was pleasantly surprised. The acting was all good and believable. The low budget manifested itself in the music, but it was tolerable. I'd choose bad music over bad acting any day! This story was predictable, yes, but it still had a lot of truth, and there were two moments that I personally related to and got choked up about, having lost both my parents. The romance was cute. I would categorize this movie as a "chick flick".

Besides the uses of God's name, there were a couple of other things that were bothersome and that would exclude this film from "all ages" family viewing, in my opinion. ***possible spoiler alert*** FIRST: At one point the nanny is alone in the house when the father of the two kids comes home. She says she should go, and he says she should stay and suggests they celebrate her getting an A on her college exam. He pours them some wine and they drink it together. They appear to relax from the affects of the wine, and then he puts the moves on her. She responds and they start kissing. They are both sitting in chairs facing each other. The kissing is what I call the lip-lock kind of kissing, where mouths are partially open. As they are kissing, the daughter walks in and finds them . My objections to this are that they are in the house alone, they don't know each other very well yet, and their kissing isn't just the innocent kind. However, this scene is not overtly sexual either. SECOND: The nanny wears some clothing that is not as modest as I'd like my kids to see. When she starts to feel attracted to the father of the children, she dresses up for work in a spaghetti strap sundress that is above the knees, and then later when she goes to the ballet, she wears something similar. At the birthday party, she has on a completely strapless sundress. The daughter also wears some similar attire for her dance class and at the birthday party.

I hope this is helpful. I like reviews that lay out anything that could possibly be offensive so I can make informed decisions on what I will purchase. For my college-age daughter, this movie was a keeper and a welcome change from so many movies that are not wholesome. She will mute the language or use a TV guardian.

This was so good on TV that I just had to have it .

I've watched it many times. It was in good condition.
Thank you. jh

This is a great family movie and we really enjoyed it. The movie was delivered as promised and was in perfect shape. The service was excellent and I will recommend this seller to others.

This was a great movie. I liked the fact that the father and nanny liked each other at the end. I also like that she started to bond with the kids it was a great movie to sit down and watch.